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Presidential 2022: where are the candidates in the polls?
Three against one. Well known to football fans, this numerical inferiority is highly unfavorable for those who suffer it, and finds themselves having to defend alone against the opponent. In politics, on the other hand, this balance of power can be totally reversed. As seems to be happening in the presidential campaign right now. While Valérie Pécresse, Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour compete for the qualifying place for the second round, Emmanuel Macron, him, takes advantage of this wild primary between the right and the nationalists to continue hunting on their land. Starting with the regal, which remains one of the main weak points of his five-year term, and on which he wants to strengthen his game before the election. Hence his trip to Nice on Monday,for a sort of "big debate" with law enforcement, magistrates, associations, citizens and elected officials.
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Flanked by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and his advisor Thierry Solère, the Head of State spoke for more than two hours in the future “Police Hotel” in the capital of the Riviera. The two ex-LR mayors of the area were in front of him in particular: Christian Estrosi, the local of the stage, and Hubert Falco, who made the trip from Toulon (Var) for the occasion. Unlike the LR deputy for the constituency, Éric Ciotti. Former finalist of the LR Congress, who became security advisor to candidate Valérie Pécresse, the parliamentarian preferred to boycott the arrival of the President of the Republic, considering that it was a disguised campaign operation. It must be said that, hearing the speech of the Head of State, the elected was not mistaken.Come with several announcements in his luggage, Emmanuel Macron took advantage of the exercise to present a real program of "global security". Which extends well beyond his five-year term. “Looking at 2022, I am aware of the challenges we still have in terms of security,” he began in his opening remarks. Evoking "the right to a quiet life", which he himself had defended in
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almost a year ago (our editions of April 19, 2021), the probable future candidate admitted: "We are not there".
"There is a long way to go," he added, to justify looking at five to ten years.
25% increase in the interior budget by 2027
This is the logic that led him to prepare a planning and orientation bill of the Ministry of the Interior (Lopmi), which must be presented to the Council of Ministers "in March". Which provides for an increase of 15 billion euros in the budget allocated to Beauvau over five years, an increase of 25% by 2027. With one detail, however: the adoption of the text, which cannot be examined by Parliament during the current legislature, will depend on the majority designated by the ballot box during the legislative elections of next June. Clearly, it constitutes a program equivalent, in the event that the outgoing President should seek his succession - which is no longer in doubt. Beyond the 10,000 job creation in the police and gendarmerie, which should be completed by the end of 2022,Emmanuel Macron thus announced that he wanted a "doubling of the police force in action on the ground for security by 2030". This will result in reorganizations in the work, with in particular the elimination of “undue or peripheral tasks”, such as those relating to administrative matters, for example.
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This redeployment, which aims to have "more blue on the ground", should make it possible to fight against violence and insecurity on a daily basis, in all its forms. Both drug trafficking, domestic violence, and street harassment - for which the fine would triple to 300 euros. An "all repressive", therefore, which also includes the generalization of fixed fines instead of sentences of less than one year in prison. All this, finally, accompanied by better coordination between the national police and gendarmerie on one side, and the municipal police on the other - on the model of what was experienced in Nice. For this, the executive has mandated the Association of Mayors of France to make proposals and estimate its room for maneuver. Which,chaired by the LR mayor of Cannes David Lisnard, is mainly made up of right-wing elected officials, close to Valérie Pécresse. Which was also indirectly invited in the conclusion of Emmanuel Macron, when he considered "normal that the (current) democratic debate comes to shake things up". But replied that he could "not let it be said that nothing has been done". Precisely the angle of attack of the Republicans, of the National Rally and of Reconquest.Precisely the angle of attack of the Republicans, of the National Rally and of Reconquest.Precisely the angle of attack of the Republicans, of the National Rally and of Reconquest.