Keep the media hand so as not to leave space for your opponents.
Ten days after his solemn speech followed by 20.9 million viewers, Emmanuel Macron is seriously considering a new speech for the coming weeks.
According to our information, it will take place in December, most likely at the beginning of the month, and in the form of a press conference.
The idea has been germinating for several days in the corridors of power, especially when The Republicans are preparing to nominate their candidate for the presidential election, and Eric Zemmour is about to formalize his candidacy.
Seduce the right-wing electorate?
“He cannot be absent from this streak.
We must play the counter-programming, “scaffolds a strategist of the majority.
“We asked ourselves the question of the format: a new speech, a speech, an interview.
But there was the need to make it appear this time with opponents facing him, ”says an adviser, hence the choice of the press conference with journalists.
On this occasion, he should present the challenges of the French presidency of the European Union, which begins on January 1.
The moment will also coincide with the entry into force of Act 2 of the reform of unemployment insurance, one of the strong markers of this end of the year for the executive, which intends to send a few nods to the right-wing electorate on this occasion.
This is what is at stake: “The fact that he is speaking at that time is of course not without political ulterior motives.
Not so much for Zemmour, who cares about Zemmour, because his candidacy is already installed in people's minds.
On the other hand, the subject is really to know how to occupy the ground when the right chooses its leader for the presidential election.
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Since the start of the five-year term, the President of the Republic has engaged in this exercise only once, it was in April 2019 from the village hall of the Elysee Palace, in the presence of 150 journalists.
