Transparency operation. While Emmanuel Macron is increasing diplomatic meetings to try to obtain a ceasefire in Ukraine, his Prime Minister, Jean Castex, received the declared candidates for the presidential election, Monday, February 28, at Matignon, for a ” information meeting ” around the conflict and the sanctions imposed on Russia. For nearly two hours, the Matignon tenant carried out “an update on the military and diplomatic situation”according to those around him, in the presence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, the Minister for the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, the government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, as well as the Chief of the Defense Staff, General Thierry Burkhard.
The opportunity for the executive to display its concern for playing collectively. In the introduction, Mr Castex stressed that he wanted “share all useful information, in a spirit of responsibility and transparency”and not “to have a political debate”. “The scale of the crisis affecting the European continent requires regular information from Parliament and political forces”he insisted, promising to ” Continue ” to unite the opposition “as many times as the situation requires”as may have been the case “in the context of the health crisis”. A parliamentary liaison committee was already held on Friday, before the organization of a debate in the National Assembly and the Senate, without a vote, scheduled for Tuesday 1is mars.
Far from the polemical tone that they have been using for several months, during their meetings or in the media, most of the candidates welcomed the Prime Minister’s initiative, at the end of the meeting, welcoming a discussion ” useful “ and ” important “. In turn, Gabriel Attal described an exchange in a “spirit of great responsibility”evoking the will of the President of the Republic that this crisis be managed “in the most democratic way” possible.
Silence any internal criticism
No question of being caught at fault on this sensitive ground. According to Mr. Macron’s entourage, this desire to involve the opposition responds to the Head of State’s desire not to provide his competitors with an opportunity to criticize him for his supposed solitary management of the Ukrainian crisis. The one who must announce his own candidacy for his re-election before the March 4 deadline hopes to push his competitors to close ranks around him, in a form of national unity. And thus stifle any internal criticism of its action. “In this period of extreme instability, the French expect unity. We have to show that we are doing everything for “sums up a macronist from the first circle.
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