If his candidacy was frantically awaited by the suitors already present on the starting line, it was undoubtedly to better exhaust him once it would have been formalized.
In a "Letter to the French" published Thursday evening in all the titles of the regional daily press (PQR), Emmanuel Macron is finally out of the woods.
Addressing his compatriots, the Head of State
“asks them for a new mandate as President of the Republic.”
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Faced with this non-suspense which is coming to an end, the candidates for the presidential election finally cleared the event to better strike the blows against Emmanuel Macron's record.
Also a way to bring him down in the battle and try to get him out of his favorite position in the polls.
Starting with Valérie Pécresse who drew the first, a few minutes after the missive from the Head of State was published.
In a very academic statement, the LR leader considered that
“it is time to open our eyes.”
And to reprimand
“
(
a) five-year term
(which)
was that of lost illusions
” and a “
power
(which)
should no longer believe itself above the people.
“For Valérie Pécresse, “
Emmanuel Macron must be held accountable."
“He could very well have done it at a public meeting”, mocks Le Pen
Guest of France 2, the contender RN Marine Le Pen did not hesitate to scratch her main opponent either.
“
He could hardly do otherwise, it was the deadline to announce his candidacy.
It's a half surprise.
I think that the choice he makes in the PQR is that he intends to stay back from this presidential election, from this campaign in any case
”, retorts the one who is running for the third time.
According to the former boss of the flame party, “
he could very well have done it in a public meeting or on a television show.
Resuming her last communication operation, the deputy from the North hopes that
“the next five years will be without him and with (her)”.
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A few hours earlier, his main competitor Éric Zemmour had published a video, mocking the results of the outgoing president.
“Emmanuel Macron, you have accelerated the downgrading of the French.
You leave the country in a state never known in its history.
(...) You have impoverished the French, sold off our industry and despised our workers.
For the boss of Reconquête, the head of state
"has not lived up to
(his)
role in protecting the French."
On the left, on the side of LFI, its leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has not yet reacted.
On BFMTV, his campaign manager Manuel Bompard joked about the fact “
that we could have expected first of all a letter of apology for the balance sheet which was that of the president.
"
Emmanuel Macron's decision is not a surprise, I hope it will allow us to debate project against project, to confront the different visions that clash
," he explained.
“President Macron has been serving candidate Macron for months. The democratic debate that I am asking for, project against project, will finally be able to take place”
, for her part, congratulated the socialist Anne Hidalgo, in a press release.
For the one who hovers around 3% in the polls,
"the Macron version of the right or the Pécresse version"
is
"the illusion that by making those who already have everything prosper, it trickles down to all the others, whereas at each time the reverse happens.”
His communist counterpart, Fabien Roussel, did not hesitate to draw a parallel between the president's assessment of purchasing power and Thursday evening's declaration of candidacy:
“After 5 years, Macron is sending a letter to the French.
But the skyrocketing bills are every month.
Salaries and pensions which stagnate, the same.
Turning the page, allowing the French to reconnect with happy days, that is my ambition.
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Unsurprisingly, the candidacy of the President of the Republic is supported by his majority.
“Since 2017, Emmanuel Macron has been charting a path of progress for the country.
Let us mobilize for five more years in the service of the French”,
launched the boss of the LREM deputies Christophe Castaner.
"A direct address to the French, by Emmanuel Macron, with seriousness, humility, lucidity and ambition for the country",
outbid the secretary general of the presidential party, Stanislas Guérini.