The war in Ukraine has put the presidential election in second place in the headlines, but he says he does not want to put it aside.
Emmanuel Macron went this Monday morning to his campaign headquarters, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, where he called not to "evade the campaign", in front of several elected officials who granted him their sponsorship and founders of support committees to his re-election, we learned from his entourage.
"I don't want to elude the campaign," said Emmanuel Macron, urging to combine "the return of the tragic with the spirit of conquest and the taste for the future".
“It's quite moving to find you here.
The days are a bit complicated at the moment for the country.
And it touches me that you are here, here, and on the other side of the screen, ”continued the outgoing president, in the presence in particular of Édouard Philippe, Christian Estrosi, Hubert Falco and Renaud Muselier.
Priority: health, school and institutions
Four days after declaring his candidacy in a letter to the French published in the regional press, the Head of State outlined the outlines of his project by proposing to "launch three major projects: one for the school, the one for health, one for our institutions”, and “four pacts: European, productive, generational and republican”.
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On the program: "completion of the autonomy of universities", "resumption of the pension reform", "breaking down all barriers to health", "increasing the industrialization of the country to face new challenges" to "make our nation the first decarbonized in Europe”.
The President of the Republic also called for "defending" the results of his five-year term, highlighting "the highest activity rate since it has been measured" and "the lowest unemployment rate".
Against “the preference for the past”
Favorite in the polls, Emmanuel Macron called for "associating everyone around a project that allows overcoming and political unity", a condition according to him "even more important today than in 2017", failing which it would be "shrinkage" and "the preference for the past": "many play it, but we must not let ourselves be locked in", he warned.
“When there is a crisis, you always need people to decide.
Édouard (Philippe) is there, we experienced it together.
He knows what I'm talking about, ”he further developed.
The candidate Macron must go at the end of the day to Poissy (Yvelines) for "a conversation with the inhabitants around the subjects they will choose" and his first public campaign trip.
How to combine his sovereign functions and his new status as a contender for his re-election?
"I will be president as much as I have to, candidate as much as I can, but with the same enthusiasm", he assured, saying he was guided by "humility, sincerity and ambition", but warning: "Nothing is written.
Nothing is won.
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