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Presidential: Gérard Larcher questions the "legitimacy" of a president elected without a campaign

2022-03-15T10:14:03.102Z


The President of the Senate believes that President-candidate Macron is trying "to step over the presidential campaign" and warns: "If there is no


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By continuing to refuse to debate with the other candidates, wouldn't Emmanuel Macron undermine the whole point of the electoral process?

"If there is no campaign, the question of the legitimacy of the winner will arise", warned this Tuesday the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher (LR), considering that Emmanuel Macron "probably did not not want to confront its balance sheet with the realities”.

“The President of the Republic wants to be re-elected without ever having been a real candidate, without a campaign, without a debate, without a confrontation of ideas.

All the candidates are debating except him.

It's a paradox!

“, said Gérard Larcher in an interview with Figaro.

For the President of the Senate, “our country fractured, indebted and facing multiple problems needs this debate”.

The next five-year term will be "very difficult"

“We are doing everything so that there is a campaign”, reacted government spokesman Gabriel Attal on France 2, recalling that Emmanuel Macron must present his project on Thursday during a “three-hour” press conference. for a second five-year term.

"As soon as he can", the head of state "takes part in this campaign", he affirmed, "but I do not hear French people asking him to desert his functions as president at a when, as we see in the news, obviously we need a president who continues to act and protect the French”.

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Gérard Larcher said for his part that “whatever the winner of the ballot in April, the conditions of this election will build its legitimacy”.

"This legitimacy will be more than necessary in the face of the economic challenges that arise, the major risks of inflation, the tensions on purchasing power, the unaddressed questions in terms of order, security and immigration", has he continued, predicting a “very difficult” next five-year term.

“Whatever it takes cannot turn into whatever happens.

It will take a five-year period of truth, ”he warned.

Regarding the LR candidate Valérie Pécresse, Gérard Larcher regretted that she was "the target of a form of harassment, even

Pécresse bashing

".

Finally, questioned on the lack of position taken by Nicolas Sarkozy in this presidential election, the president of the Senate noted that the former president “is naturally free to choose”.

“I see that he did not choose four weeks before the election.

Valérie Pécresse charts her course,” he added.

Source: leparis

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