Back off to better blow up ?
This is what the President of the Republic suggests in an interview with
La Voix du Nord
.
On the eve of yet another trip to Hauts-de-France, in particular to Liévin, Emmanuel Macron responds to those who claim that he could embark on the presidential battle on these very popular lands prized by nationalist pretenders.
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While he had declared in mid-December on TF1 to have
"evidence"
of ambition for the post-April 2022 period, rejecting his candidacy to better take advantage of the benefits of the institutional function, Emmanuel Macron kicks, once again, a month and a half later.
"I have already said what I thought of the projects, the enthusiasm and the love that I have for our country",
first points out the head of state, whose desire to run for a second term with of the French is hardly in doubt in the coming weeks.
Before his candidacy, Macron first had two obsessions
Stuck in a fifth wave which is gradually receding and a Ukrainian conflict at the gates of Europe, Emmanuel Macron does not want to give the impression of a rush... even though he is the last putative pretender not to be entered the race.
“First of all, I am obsessed that the acute phase of the epidemic and the peak of the current geopolitical crisis are behind us”,
he analyzes as if to better postpone the fateful moment.
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Probably bearing in mind that he is expected at the turn by the opposition to start the battle and by a good part of public opinion which is taking time to enter this particular and sluggish campaign, the tenant of the Élysée
"does not cannot reasonably explain to the French that (he) will (s) devote himself to this important democratic time, when (he) told them that (he) will be president until the end.
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The candidacy of the President of the Republic is all the longer awaited as it can arrive at any time.
If Emmanuel Macron had dismissed the question of a young high school farmer last week -
explaining that "he would make his decision in due time"
- the next applicant knows that a window of opportunity opens in February.
And will close at the beginning of March when all sponsorships must be sent to the Constitutional Council.
For the moment, the body has collected 105 signatures on the name of the walker, not yet a candidate.
If there is no "
false suspense
" according to the expression of Emmanuel Macron in Le Parisien at the beginning of January, the timing and the way of announcing his candidacy do indeed agitate part of the troops of the President of the Republic. .
