“Can Arnaud Montebourg represent the“ France of the sub-prefectures ”?”

David Desgouilles is a columnist for

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- Arnaud Montebourg presented this weekend his candidacy for the presidential election, in Clamecy in the Nièvre, with a slogan… "

David DESGOUILLES.

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I admit having been annoyed by the choice of this slogan and for three reasons:

First, the choice of a non-French-speaking term for a French presidential election, and for a candidate who has placed patriotism at the heart of his project;

Then, while I am a football fan myself, I am not sure that the mix of genres is relevant, especially as the

recalls the humiliation of a French club in the European Cup.

Arnaud Montebourg is sometimes perceived as a whimsical man, which can be his charm, but it is the presidential election and he must compensate for this character trait with a spirit of seriousness;

Finally, I am afraid that this slogan, which he hammered out almost at the beginning of every sentence in his speech, has somewhat vampirized the substance.

It's good to want to talk using a slogan "that slams", but if we then only talk about the slogan, it ultimately harms the content.

Placing sovereignty at the heart is a prerequisite in the country's situation, in a West where the people thirst for "regaining control".

David Desgouilles

In his speech, the former minister of François Hollande focused on the sovereignty and reindustrialisation of France.

Is it enough for a campaign entry?

Let us come to the content indeed. It seems to me that he was richer than you suggest. Placing sovereignty at the heart is a prerequisite in the country's situation, in a West where the people thirst for "regaining control". Among its institutional proposals, I noted with satisfaction its desire to once again ensure that the law voted by the representatives of the people prevail over European directives as long as it is passed after the latter. In France, it would be a revolution that would bring us back before the “Nicolo” jurisprudence of the Council of State in 1989. But ultimately, it would also be imitating our neighbor, Germany, whose voice of the Constitutional Court of Karlsruhe prevails. Bundestag on all European regulations.Legal sovereignty has been approached by right-wing candidates, such as Michel Barnier and Xavier Bertrand, but, as I told you a few days ago in these same columns, they limited the need to recover it on the sole subject of immigration. Arnaud Montebourg's proposal extends it to all subjects and it is a sovereignist added value that should not be overlooked.

From there, the candidate can carry out his project, he is much more credible because he has announced his desire to give himself the legal means to implement them.

It is a question of "taking back control".

However, can he siphon off the Le Pen vote, since it is this electorate who is implanted in what has been called “

 ”?

That's the whole challenge.

David Desgouilles

The candidate explained that he wanted to represent "

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Arnaud Montebourg has always put forward his Burgundian origins, his attachment to the terroirs which have seen him grow, first of all because he is sincerely very attached to them, despite the image that had been given to him when he joined the media scene, when he was the lawyer of a Parisian firm fighting against the fictitious jobs of the town hall of Paris. He knows how to talk about this France, the one described ten years ago by Christophe Guilluy but also by two authors who were close to him, Gaël Brustier and Jean-Philippe Huelin. He knows her, he has now created businesses there. Can he for all that siphon off the Le Pen vote, since it is this electorate who is implanted in what has been called "

"? That's the whole challenge. Voters for Marine Le Pen have shown they can drop her when she can take multiple regions. He can also bite the electorate who voted for Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2017. The first poll that measures him (before his Clamecy speech) certainly only measures 2%, but the potential exists. It remains to convince this "

" by unrolling its proposals.