Emmanuel Macron has learned a lesson from the health crisis.
Because
"we have lived absolutely unpredictable things"
, he himself assures that he
"does not plan (t) anything"
for the presidential election of 2022. He
"does not exclude (t) anything"
either , including a scenario in the style of François Hollande, who gave up standing for the 2017 election, against a background of strong unpopularity.
"Maybe I will not be able to be a candidate,"
the head of state said on Friday at the end of an interview lasting more than two hours with online media Brut.
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Like the unprecedented choice of his predecessor, the President of the Republic imagines the hypothesis of a strong rejection of his action by the French, at the end of his five-year term.
"Because circumstances will demand it"
, he thinks,
"maybe I will have to do some tough things in the last year (...), which will make it impossible for me to be a candidate
.
"
This ambiguity contrasts with the enthusiasm of his already declared opponents, such as the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the president of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen.
"Unpopular decisions"
Conversely, an immediate declaration, a year and a half before the election, would prevent him from making these possible
“unpopular decisions”
.
"If I put myself in the situation of being a candidate, I would no longer make the right decisions"
, or
"risks
to
" meet the requirement of the moment "
, he says, like his predecessors holding to delay a possible entry into the campaign.
"We are still living in times that are quite unprecedented"
, justified the Head of State, at the origin of two confinements of the population to fight against the Covid-19 epidemic.
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Despite the succession of crises, the image of Emmanuel Macron is growing in public opinion according to an Odoxa-Dentsu Consulting poll for
Le Figaro
and France Info published on Friday.
The Head of State himself assures that he has not abandoned all work of conviction.
In reality,
"I have been a candidate since day one, because I have always built myself, built myself, in a desire to convince and to be at the rendezvous of results," he
explains.
While presenting a slogan-like design, addressed to confined France:
"collectively reinventing what it is to be French"
.
To this end, he promised young listeners on Friday that he will be their
“ally”
.