The world keeps the synopsis of the campaign for the presidential election of 2022: a daily update, published at 7 p.m., looks back on the political events of the past day and discusses the appointments to come.
News of the day: the opposition fears a campaign without debate, even after the formalization of Emmanuel Macron’s candidacy
Emmanuel Macron’s candidacy for his own re-election should mark the start of this unprecedented presidential campaign. In any case, this is what its main competitors on the starting line want.
The other candidates fear that this election will become a “administrative formality of renewal of the outgoing” and chief of the armies, according to the formula of Adrien Quatennens, deputy of La France insoumise, at the microphone of France Inter this Friday. Does he fear that the Head of State will not get involved in the debate among the other candidates? “In any case, we have the impression that we are taking the path, so we hope that Emmanuel Macron will participate in the debate”, he argues.
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A wish shared by Valérie Pécresse on Franceinfo at the same time. ” Given the very surprising nature of this campaign, which will take place against a background of war, against a background of a pandemic, it is absolutely necessary that the President of the Republic accept this debate, because now he is a candidate and he must be accountable. », she advanced. “He cannot put himself above the people and not come into the arena to debate”, she added.
Yannick Jadot, the environmental candidate who has just dismissed Sandrine Rousseau from his campaign, also wanted to be able to debate with the President of the Republic. “If the presidential election debate is truncated, these angers, these anxieties and these fears and these enthusiasms will not find a political outlet”, according to him.
“The debate must be able to be conducted and that I too, as a candidate, can explain, convince, propose”, replied Emmanuel Macron in a video posted on social media at the end of the day. “To be attacked, criticized, challenged, to respond to controversy and to engage in it myself”he further clarified.
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The drawing: the Head of State dons the candidate’s costume
Every Friday, the cartoonist Aurel gives us his eye on the presidential campaign. This week, back to the different costumes that Emmanuel Macron will have to wear for six weeks, now that he is officially a candidate.
“He will remain president until the end. The context leaves him no choice.sums up to World the Elysée, which evokes “a quadruple suit” for one man: President of the Republic, President in office of the Council of the European Union (EU), leader of a Western country in time of war and, finally, candidate for the presidential election. A last role that he will play soberly, with little travel and a handful of meetings planned, in order to devote most of his time to his other duties.
An overhanging posture, which further strengthens it compared to its competitors on the national scene. And make him appear more than ever as the big favorite of the election of April 10 and 24 in the polls.
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The sentence: Laurent Wauquiez charges Emmanuel Macron, “model of a dictator president”, before backpedaling
A violent charge. The former boss of the Les Républicains (LR) party Laurent Wauquiez attacked Emmanuel Macron head-on on Friday in Chartres, during a round table on decentralization, organized around Valérie Pécresse. The president of the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region criticized the governance “Jupiterian” by Mr. Macron, “model of a president who is both monarchical and dictator”.
The candidate’s campaign team then sought to temper Laurent Wauquiez’s remarks against Emmanuel Macron. “His words exceeded his thought”, we judged in his entourage at midday. “I underlined the solitary and authoritarian exercise of power by Emmanuel Macron during his five-year term. The use, in the current context, of the term dictator was not appropriate. I withdraw it”said the elected on Twitter in the afternoon.
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“Valérie Pécresse will allow us to get out of arrogance”had earlier added Mr. Wauquiez, wishing “recovering the Pomidolian common sense” to do “breathe France”. The ex-boss of the LR party had also criticized the head of state for using the war in Ukraine with a “absolute cynicism” like a « camouflage » to avoid watching the “reality of our country”.
Before this rally at the Parc des expositions de Chartes – which gathered around the candidate the president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, the president of the Association of mayors of France, David Lisnard, and several hundred elected officials –, the four “musketeers” of the candidate – Xavier Bertrand, Eric Ciotti, Michel Barnier and Philippe Juvin – had already harshly criticized the results of the outgoing president, during a press conference.
In the archives of the “World”: in 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy seeks officials in the heckling of Bayonne
Ten years ago, the search for those responsible for Nicolas Sarkozy’s hectic visit to Bayonne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) was in full swing. In the aftermath of the demonstrations of hostility, the presidential camp is badly shaken, can we read in The world dated March 4, 2012.
“Main accused, Michèle Alliot-Marie, deputy for Pyrénées-Atlantiques, who had wanted to set up this trip in her department and who would have taken charge of the organization”, write the journalists Arnaud Leparmentier, David Revault d’Allonnes and Patrick Roger. A version strongly denied by the former minister.
“But it is especially with the left that the controversy did not fail to escalate, the presidential camp gearing up on the accusations of the head of state, who had immediately pointed out the responsibility of the PS in the Bayonne bronca”say the journalists, noting that the analyzes diverge however. “Local police sources, who claim to have informed the Elysée of the existence of a call for an autonomist demonstration and the danger presented by a visit to the Petit-Bayonne area, without having been heard, evoke “85% of nationalists and 10% to 15% socialists”. can we still read.
“The episode, in terms of image, puts down the strategy of a president-candidate anxious to show himself again close to the people”, write the three journalists of the World. Even if the close relations of Nicolas Sarkozy hope that the heckling will make it possible to reunite the electorate of the president by setting up this last as a martyr of an alleged chaos socialo-independenceist.
On the agenda for this weekend:
Saturday March 5:
Nathalie Arthaud, Lutte Ouvrière candidate, holds a meeting in Strasbourg at 3:30 p.m. at the Palais de la Musique et des Congrès. Marine Le Pen, candidate of the National Rally in the presidential election, is expected in Aigues-Mortes (Gard) and gathers her supporters in the room Le Flamingo, at 4:30 p.m.
The communist Fabien Roussel gives an appointment at 5 p.m. in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) for his raout; while the candidate of the Les Républicains party, Valérie Pécresse, must climb the stage at 7 p.m. at the Metz-Grigy exhibition center (Moselle).
Sunday March 6:
The candidate of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, holds an outdoor meeting in Lyon, from 3 p.m.
Also, Eric Zemmour, the far-right candidate, meets his supporters at the Zenith of Toulon, at 5 p.m. Marion Maréchal, the niece of Marine Le Pen, should take the opportunity to announce her support for the founder of Reconquête!.
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