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Macron to pay tribute to Michel Charasse and Jean Daniel, figures from the left

2020-02-26T07:03:06.955Z


The President of the Republic will be in Puy-de-Dôme on Wednesday for the funeral of the former socialist minister, before a ceremony at the Invali


"A sad coincidence, without any desire for recovery or staging," said at the outset a close friend of Emmanuel Macron. Nevertheless, by attending blow by blow at the funeral of Michel Charasse and Jean Daniel, "two personalities who embrace the French left" who died last week, the Head of State intends to send some signals to those who regularly accuse of leaning to the right too often.

Starting this Wednesday, during an express return trip to Puy-Guillaume (Puy-de-Dôme) for a final farewell to Michel Charasse. And especially Friday, during a national tribute with great pomp to Jean Daniel - intellectual figure of the moral left -, in the prestigious and very solemn courtyard of honor of the Invalides. “An obviously political signal, recognizes a strategist of the macronie. Especially two weeks before the municipal elections… ”

"But in the genes of macronism, there is also and above all an important part of the left", corrects an adviser to the president, by highlighting the CV of his boss: from his young years of militancy for Jean-Pierre Chevènement to member of the Socialist Party, before making himself known to the general public when he joined François Hollande as Deputy Secretary General of the Elysée Palace, then Minister of the Economy and Finance. “The political matrix of Emmanuel Macron is also not socialism, but the republican left, the left of authority. Like Georges Clémenceau, whom he quotes very often, ”says another strategist from the Palais.

"It absolutely must return to a rebalancing"

"But his very liberal reforms, his pro-business discourse, his initiatives to try to siphon the right by going into the field of immigration, the fight against communitarianism and the kingly have moved him a little from this image of man on the left. Wrongly. It must absolutely return to a rebalancing ”, deplores a deputy from the socialist ranks.

A point of view that does not share the Secretary of State Olivier Dussopt, also come from the PS: "I do not agree with the idea of ​​a right turn! ", He annoys himself, by affirming for example that" this quinquennium is the one that will have increased social minima the most, with the increase in two and a half years of 100 euros for the minimum old age and the adult allowance disabled, but also setting up the rest at zero charge. "

So, Macron, still a man on the left? This Wednesday afternoon in Puy-de-Dôme, he will in any case pay tribute to Michel Charasse. “Charasse was close to Mitterrand. A parentage that Emmanuel Macron has never refused because the Mitterrand model calls out to him, ”insists support. The two men were also very close, even friends. Very weakened by the disease in recent weeks, the former socialist minister had also been decorated last January with the insignia of an officer of the Legion of Honor at the Elysée, in front of a parterre of former great figures of mitterrandism, like Lionel Jospin, Laurent Fabius, and even Mazarine Pingeot.

Jean Daniel, a reference

His relationship with Jean Daniel is different. Actually nonexistent. "But he is still old enough to have known, when he was a student, his great editorials in the New Observer," said a high ranking macronie, while justifying the national tribute to be rendered Friday: "C ' was a committed journalist, close to Camus, a great witness to post-war and decolonization France. The career of this totemic figure of the left in the service of social democracy has been exceptionally rich and long. For the President of the Republic, this is necessarily a reference. "

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So without denying the many winks addressed to the right-wing electorate during the first part of the five-year term, there is no question of abandoning this left leg which enabled it to take power in 2017: “The first at the same time of Emmanuel Macron, that's what it is: embodying the republican left that Charasse represented and the second left that Daniel wore, "summarizes a close friend.

Source: leparis

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