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The Figaro editorial: "The Macron tourbillon"

2021-10-25T18:43:26.362Z


By Vincent Trémolet de Villers, Deputy Editorial Director. In the inexhaustible reserve of agreed indignations, here we are reproaching a president not yet a candidate for using his office for electoral purposes. No need to dwell on it: each end of term offers the same controversy. Those who complain about a campaign carried out from the Elysee Palace can also accuse the tribunitians of speaking to the people, the pollsters of making polls, the clouds of


In the inexhaustible reserve of agreed indignations, here we are reproaching a president not yet a candidate for using his office for electoral purposes.

No need to dwell on it: each end of term offers the same controversy.

Those who complain about a campaign carried out from the Elysee Palace can also accuse the tribunitians of speaking to the people, the pollsters of making polls, the clouds of making rain fall.

The president-candidate benefits from the decor and the liturgy of power: this is the rule.

Emmanuel Macron plays it, greedily, with a single objective: to impose an evidence of legitimacy to transform the presidential election into a mid-term electoral meeting.

The superior je ne sais quoi that characterizes the Macronian gesture must, by contrast, send the suitors back to the rank of second choice or eccentric adventurers.

Competence against the left, modernity against LR, the virtue of prudence against Zemmour or Le Pen.

The questions therefore

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Source: lefigaro

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