Calendar jostled.
The day after the announcement of the death of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing from the Covid-19 at the age of 94, and while the tributes multiply, Emmanuel Macron has obviously decided to adapt his agenda.
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The president was indeed to give this Thursday an interview to the online media Brut, which is finally postponed for 24 hours.
He was to be questioned at length at 4 p.m. by Brut journalists and Internet users on the situation of young people facing the economic and health crisis of Covid-19, but also on the environment, discrimination or police violence.
[Morning info] Death of #VGE: @EmmanuelMacron postpones its first ITW at #Brut by 24 hours, initially scheduled for Thursday 4 p.m., with @RemyBuisine @thomassnegaroff and Yagmur Cengiz #Macron https://t.co/3gdetufP8t
- michaël zoltobroda (@MichaelZolto) December 3, 2020
His "seven-year term transformed France"
A political communication operation now unwelcome, while the country salutes the memory of VGE, a president who modernized French society during his five-year term at the end of the 1970s.
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Emmanuel Macron also paid tribute to the memory of his predecessor during the night by welcoming a Head of State whose "seven-year term transformed France".
In particular, in a long and emphatic tribute, he considers that "the orientations he had given to France are still guiding our steps".
Saluting the “servant of the State, politician of progress and freedom”, Emmanuel Macron then evokes “mourning for the French nation”.