For Dali, the center of the world was the Perpignan station.
For the French political world, he is in Saint-Saulve, right next to Valenciennes in the Nord department.
(I would point out straight away that my ch'tis origins have nothing to do with this assertion!)
Because in Saint-Saulve, the fate of the Ascoval factory justifies since the beginning of this five-year term and even before that, an immense deployment of political energy. Ascoval has become a symbol. Latest proof: it was Ascoval that Emmanuel Macron and Xavier Bertrand spoke at length on Friday, in Guise, on the sidelines of the visit of the Familistère Godin by the President of the Republic. A handshake lasting more than three minutes, looking like an arm wrestling under the watchful eye of the cameras, during which the president of the Hauts-de-France region and presidential candidate defended "the only solution" according to him - change the electricity tariff - and drew a scathing retort - "
you maybe know better than everyone else
".
The long, very long, handshake on Friday between Emmanuel Macron and Xavier Bertrand, accompanied by a tense, very tense exchange about Ascoval.
BENOIT TESSIER / AFP
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