The cliché emerges in each presidential election: never has an election been so decisive for the future of the country.
This year, however, the sentence is not as worn out as it seems.
In the flagship ballot of the Fifth Republic, each candidate plays his or her future and, beyond personal cases, the entire French political landscape will emerge profoundly reshaped.
In any case, this is the ambition of the first concerned, Emmanuel Macron, outgoing president and the only actor who has not yet declared his candidacy.
In this campaign that is starting, he is the main character, the one around whom everything revolves.
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Five years ago, he had broken the mechanical ticking of the alternation between the right and the left and theorized the replacement of this historical opposition by a new cleavage.
On the one hand the pro-European progressives, on the other the Eurosceptic conservatives.
For Emmanuel Macron, the challenge for 2022 is to confirm this new distribution of political forces ...
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