It has become a sort of national anthem for all politicians;
and not just Emmanuel Macron.
“We all have something in us from Tennessee,”
sang Johnny Halliday to words from Michel Berger.
The melody remains, you just need to change the name over the commemorations and disappearances: we all have something in us from De Gaulle, Pompidou, Chirac, Giscard and, this year, Mitterrand.
These presidents may have been very different and have clashed sometimes fiercely, this "at the same time" - there is no limit.
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For Emmanuel Macron, the chance of the calendar - birthdays, two disappearances - joins his taste for commemorations to allow him to establish this continuum of presidents.
For a man without a political past, promoting this Elyos chain is a way to build roots.
The candidate of degagism becomes the continuator of a story.
For a president, praising those who came before him is more reassuring than pretending
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