What a singular moment, unprecedented even, that this presidential intervention!
A few hours before the close of candidacies for the supreme election, the Head of State addressed the nation.
However, he said nothing about his - obvious - intention to run for a new term.
Circumstances, it is true, did not lend themselves to this.
He was not on television to talk about himself, but about France, which for a week has been supporting Ukraine in the face of Vladimir Putin's murderous attacks.
The tone was solemn.
Wednesday evening, the policy and the ambitions of a man were thus erased in front of the noise of the weapons.
Not quite, however, because Emmanuel Macron was not there as a warlord - our country is not engaged on the front lines and the enemy is not the Russian people, as he took care of to underline it -, but like the one who wants to maintain the thread of the dialogue with the master of the Kremlin.
Europe is changing times
As such, everyone will be able to judge their action.
And there is no doubt that some will criticize it, the offensive...
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