One can be the master of clocks without being the master of time.
The first decides the time: it's easy, factual and precise.
The task of the second is much more delicate, because, for one reason or another, in the long term, time can escape him.
Declared candidates for re-election belatedly, in 1981 and 2012, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Nicolas Sarkozy bitterly regretted it.
Were they too sure of themselves?
Emmanuel Macron, he claimed on Monday, visiting Creuse, that he had
"still a lot to do"
before revealing his intentions.
Certainly, no one doubts it, but the excuse is more a matter of dodging than of a valid reason.
The management of the health crisis – which moreover deserves to be at the heart of the electoral debate – has a good back.
75 days before the first round of the presidential election, the head of state would gain in efficiency and clarity by announcing his candidacy.
If he refuses, it may be that he does not yet know on which major axis he intends to engage his campaign…
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