The challenge is big.
Talk to the youth.
More than one President of the Republic has been tempted by this exercise where there is much to lose and little to gain.
More than one failed.
It was François Mitterrand who ventured to speak young in 1985, explaining to Yves Mourousi that it was no longer necessary to say
“chébran”
but
“wired”
.
It is Jacques Chirac who admits to being powerless in the face of the pessimism he perceives among a hundred "young people" gathered at the Elysee Palace in 2005 to question him about Europe: "
I do not understand it
" ... Friday, on the online media Brut.
It was Emmanuel Macron's turn to navigate between the pitfalls of incomprehension, condescension, paternalism and the lesson of things.
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Faced with a youth revived against the
"police violence"
observed in recent days, the Head of State has chosen to attack his interview from the north face: defend step by step the police and the police institution.
"
Very shocked
" by the beating of music producer Michel Zecler, the president observed that a police commissioner had also been lynched a few days later during a demonstration for freedoms by "
madmen
", "
savage people
”.
“
I am intractable with police officers who fail in their homework but I try to be fair: violence is everywhere.
Police officers are killed on duty, others are burned in their car, are stoned, shot with mortar and even with live ammunition…
”, recalled the Head of State.
Authoritarian drift
From this misunderstanding about the role of the police stems another, more astonishing one.
That conveyed since the crisis of “yellow vests” and their repeated demonstrations according to which France is a dictatorship and that Emmanuel Macron is in full authoritarian drift Kim Jong-un way.
Actually no.
This is what he tried to explain to those who "
believe that in France, we will reduce freedoms
".
"
As long as I'm here, it will not be the case,
promised Emmanuel Macron
.
Are we a country where the freedom to demonstrate is at risk?
No.
The freedom of the press in question?
No
”, recalled the Head of State before assuring him:“
We are not Hungary, Turkey or other
. ”
And this, even if he admitted to having taken, in the face of the global coronavirus epidemic, authoritarian measures to confine the population twice and impose a curfew.
Decisions that weigh particularly on young people.
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"
It's hard to be 20 years old in 2020
", admitted Emmanuel Macron in a previous television interview.
Moreover, the Head of State only half-heartedly condemned the clandestine student parties.
"
Even when you're over 40, you sometimes also want to take a breather,
" he said, stressing the risks these people took in transmitting the Covid to their older relatives.
Another misunderstanding to clear up: the environmental policy of Emmanuel Macron.
Basically, the President of the Republic would be the toy of the lobbies, as evidenced by his difficulties in banning glyphosate, "
a collective failure
" according to him, or the reluctance of his government with regard to certain proposals of the convention. citizen on the climate.
"I have 150 citizens, I respect them, but I will not say, what they propose is the Bible or the Koran
," Emmanuel Macron annoyed by denouncing the activism of certain activists within this convention.
I have no lessons to receive
”.
“
Who arrested Notre-Dame-des-Landes?
Who stopped Europacity?
Who stopped the Montagne d'Or project?
He asked.
Well that's him.
And he got no political benefit from it.
Ecologists still do not recognize his action against global warming.
That's the problem with environmentalists.
The more Emmanuel Macron talks to them, the less they listen to him.
He will soon know if it works the same with young people.
“
From where I am, I want to be an ally,
” he offered them in conclusion.
