With Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron saved his “ Saint-Denis format ”, a formula now labeled to designate the meeting of party leaders around the President of the Republic. The international situation and the dramatization of the Russian threat were necessary for this.
Those who had boycotted the previous meeting or who had sworn that they would not attend again had to admit that, faced with the war in Ukraine, the policy of the empty chair would have been a political attitude. But Emmanuel Macron, so eager to play campaign leader and distribute bad points to his adversaries - the RN more than ever, LFI a little more.