He had already chosen Seine-Saint-Denis to make his big announcement in 2016.
“I am a candidate for the presidency of the Republic
,” Emmanuel Macron declared in Bobigny.
It is again the northern suburbs of Paris that the President of the Republic has chosen but this time, to present his program.
And more precisely, at the Docks de Paris, in Aubervilliers.
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The same one who, in front of the French Olympic delegation, in 2017, compared the department of Seine-Saint-Denis to Silicon Valley, the “
youngest, most innovative territory
”, reports
La Croix
.
In an interview in Zadig, in May 2021, Emmanuel Macron had also expressed his affection for Seine-Saint-Denis where, according to him, "
all that is missing is the sea to make California
".
A bold comparison that the opposition then did not lack criticism.
"I invite Emmanuel Macron to come and spend a few days in the social housing estate of Saint-Denis where I grew up, to see for himself the hell of trafficking, the weight of illegal immigration and Islamist fundamentalism", declared the current president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella on Twitter.
"For Macron in Seine-Saint-Denis, '"all that is missing is the sea to make
California
".
This is why he refuses to strengthen public services, fight against poverty, build social housing, etc.
Foutage of mouth and start-up nation: the DNA of macronism”
, had for his part castigated the deputy of rebellious France Bastien Lachaud.
One of the poorest departments in France
“
I am going to describe to you, asking you to close your eyes, the youngest department in France, with two international airports, the most important French sports stadium and the highest number of start-up creations per inhabitant
”, had still detailed Emmanuel Macron in Zadig.
“
The only place where we have assumed to be a country of immigration.
»
A “
space
”, finally, “
unique for economic and social transformation
” but also “
a lung
” of France.
This, while Seine-Saint-Denis remains one of the most fragile departments in France, hit by a poverty rate twice the national average (28%).
In 2019, the Prime Minister at the time, Edouard Philippe, had also dispatched four ministers to discuss an action plan following an alarming parliamentary report on the state of public services in this territory.
