He is not yet in the race but he does not want to be forgotten.
Faced with the LR primary campaign, the misfortunes of Eric Zemmour, the resistance of Marine Le Pen, the new relaunch of the campaign of Anne Hidalgo or the preparation of the program of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Emmanuel Macron continues to occupy the dotted terrain.
Traveling Friday in Hauts-de-France, on the lands of Xavier Bertrand and Marine Le Pen, the President of the Republic took the opportunity to review all current topics.
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When its competitors are deployed, it is a question of occupying the ground, as if to underline in broad outline its intention to remain
"at work until the last minute"
. First there is the fifth wave of the Covid which is starting to worry the country.
"The vaccine booster is essential for people over 65 and people with co-morbidities."
There is also the diplomatic crisis with London over fishing.
“We will not let go of our fishermen. If the commission does not play its role, France will do it (…) The commission must protect us, things are going too slowly, too softly. "
And even the health concerns of US President Joe Biden to whom the Head of State wishes a
" good recovery "
.
By the way, Emmanuel Macron also defended his health policy and asked for time for it to produce its effects.
Before his trip, he had granted an interview to
La Voix du Nord
and slipped a pike to the attention of Eric Zemmour, the author of
France has not said his last word
(Rubempré).
“I don't think France has its last say.
It has a thousand-year-old history in front of it, ”
he assured.
Recreate the desire
At work and in the countryside, therefore, always in this in-between that gives him his status as outgoing president likely to run for a second term.
With all the same ants in the legs and the desire to do battle.
In any case to defend step by step its record, as Thursday before the Association of Mayors of France.
But before launching, he must find the martingale to succeed in creating again around him, the envy he had aroused in 2017. Now installed in the costume of President of the Republic, he no longer benefits from the attraction of novelty.
"The rational brain of the French says to itself that it does the job, that it has a good track record and that it represents France well,"
assures a close friend of the head of state
.
But there is also an elusive part about them that wants change and that asks for dreams.
"
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Otherwise, it is money that he pours. Here in particular to develop the new Maubeuge hospital center, there to widen the RN2 Laon-Avesnes and the Sambre-Oise canal. Monday, after spending the weekend in Le Touquet, he will go to his hometown of Amiens to announce the creation of an annex of the National Library of France. Projects from which politics is never far away. So close, moreover, that it even invites itself into Republican receptions with local elected officials. Like Xavier Bertrand, who challenged the president on Ascoval.
"You know perhaps better than all the others"
, asserted the Head of State, after a dialogue of the deaf between the two men on the tariffs of the electricity.
And to conclude by thanking him for being present
“alongside the other elected officials”
.
How to send him back to his status as president of Hauts-de-France.
And to challenge him in doing so that of potential opponent for 2022.
