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Presidential: "French singularity"

2022-03-10T20:52:59.812Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Yves Thréard. Jupiter will not descend from Olympus. The opponents of the Head of State have every good reason to be indignant and to condemn his refusal to debate before the first round. Emmanuel Macron can nevertheless oppose two admissible arguments. First, no outgoing president has taken part in this exercise before him. Then, he is monopolized by the war in Ukraine, which relegated the election to the back


Jupiter will not descend from Olympus.

The opponents of the Head of State have every good reason to be indignant and to condemn his refusal to debate before the first round.

Emmanuel Macron can nevertheless oppose two admissible arguments.

First, no outgoing president has taken part in this exercise before him.

Then, he is monopolized by the war in Ukraine, which relegated the election to the background.

A campaign worthy of the name will therefore not take place with him.

To try to obtain peace, he must speak to Vladimir Putin.

To win the ballot, he is not obliged to scrap with Marine Le Pen or Valérie Pécresse.

Nor even to detail its intentions for the next five years.

In other words, the bets would be made.

Perhaps, but this prospect rightly worries many.

Those, of course, who reject Emmanuel Macron's policy, and there are many of them.

But also all those who fear that in the absence of fair competition, project against project, on...

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Source: lefigaro

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