Second postponement in less than a month.
Already forced to give up going to Marseille in early February for a progress report on the many projects launched six months ago, Emmanuel Macron has once again failed in his "
city of hearts
".
Expected in the Marseille city on Saturday March 5 for his first major campaign meeting, the President of the Republic informed LREM that he could not ultimately honor his public meeting scheduled in front of several thousand people.
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Mobilized on the diplomatic scene, where the war continues to rage between Russia and Ukraine, the Head of State wants to devote himself to continuing his peace efforts to obtain a ceasefire between Moscow and Kiev .
An activism which has led him to multiply telephone exchanges and physical meetings with his international counterparts in recent days, and which has earned him the opinion of being "
up to the task
" of the situation by a clear majority of French people in a recent survey.
These calendar hitches should not, however, prevent Emmanuel Macron from formalizing his candidacy for the 2022 presidential election by the end of the week.
Among the scenarios studied by his relatives, two hypotheses hold the rope - an "20H" or an interview with the regional daily press - and remain adaptable to the evolution of the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian front.
Anyway, this announcement will take place before Friday evening.
And she will have to be, according to those around her, both “
sober and solemn
”.