Jean-Pierre Chevènement will support Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election, announced this Saturday, February 26 in an interview with the
Journal du Dimanche
the former left-wing minister, saying his hope that the outgoing president can
"restore the country and give meaning to politics"
for a second term.
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“The left has lost its ideological bearings. No candidate represents this left rooted in the soil of the Enlightenment, which claimed to give control of their destiny to everyone, individually and collectively”
, deplores Jean-Pierre Chevènement, 82, who was Minister of National Education then of Defense. under François Mitterrand, and interior minister in Lionel Jospin's cohabitation government in the 1990s.
Macronism does not exist.
There is Emmanuel Macron, who is a free being, who thinks for himself and who decides.
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Jean-Pierre Chevenement
“Mélenchon has a certain talent, but a problem with the Republic. The Sixth Republic of which he dreams would only be a return to the assembly system...”
, he continues:
“As for the others, they have remained in the wake of social-liberalism.
What choice can a left-wing voter make between these relics?
Many will prefer, I believe, this alloy between the tradition of social progress and the culture of the State, to which Emmanuel Macron tends.
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In his eyes,
“Macronism does not exist.
There is Emmanuel Macron, who is a free being, who thinks for himself and who decides.
Invited to draw the future of France, this left sovereigntist questions:
“Are we going to witness a radicalization, with a coalition of the right and the far right?
Will the right, returning to business, reinstall the
“windshield wiper” system
: we get rid of those leaving by bringing the others back?
Or will Emmanuel Macron be able, through a second five-year term, to straighten out the country and give meaning to politics?