Behind the municipal, political issues

He doesn't want to put his hands in the engine, but they are still stained with grease. Faced with the deadline for municipal elections, Emmanuel Macron quoted François Mitterrand to describe his position: " I will take the mayors that the French will give me. So above the fray. This did not prevent the President of the Republic from getting involved in the fratricidal struggle between two ministers, Didier Guillaume and Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, who wanted to run against each other in Biarritz. Which did not prevent him from weighing in favor of the designation of Agnes Buzyn as candidate in Paris after the withdrawal of Benjamin Griveaux. Hands in the engine up to the elbows. " This ballot remains for him of local scope and the President of the Republic has no vocation to interfere ", however assured late January the entourage of the Head of State.

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But the stake is important. Starting from nothing in 2016 with its political movement En Marche !, today La République en Marche,

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