Emmanuel Macron sounds the alarm clock of Macronie.
Numbed by the good polls and the brevity of its candidate's campaign, it gathered on Saturday in the hall of the Defense Arena, the largest in Europe.
It is a question of sounding the response.
It is political, first.
It is the VIP square around the stage installed in the center, with all that the outgoing president has in terms of supporters and relatives.
She is an activist, then.
It is the thirty thousand sympathizers white-hot, came to cheer their champion on Saturday afternoon.
She is finally on the campaign trail.
This is the speech of more than two hours delivered by the candidate, standing at the podium.
“
Do you hear the fervor?
(...) I am happy to be with you today, (...) in the largest hall of
he begins, after arriving through the crowd, in a nightclub atmosphere with loud music and indoor fireworks.
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There follows a long thematic defense of the action carried out during the five-year term, punctuated each time by a: “
We have done it
”.
Every subject goes there.
Unemployment, taxation, labor law, reindustrialization, purchasing power, terrorism, security, justice, climate, health, education... "
All this, and so many things, it was our project, and it is now our balance sheet
”, he summarizes, aware however that “
we do not win on a balance sheet
”.
Hence the project he submits to the French for “
five more years
”.
His is known, he has already presented it.
He is therefore content with the main lines, evoked “
à la cavalcade
”.
» that he wishes to carry: child protection, education, emancipation through work and health.
He concludes this time in the future: “
We will do
it ”.
The program is freely inspired by those of its adversaries.
That's good, the beam continues to work, and the recomposition could experience its last act on the evening of the second round.
"
I call on all those who today - from the social democrats to the Gaullists, passing through the ecologists - have not yet joined us to do so, because from the start, we have only had one it's our country!
“, he launches.
By having ex-LR Prime Minister Jean Castex, ex-PS President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand, MoDem mayor of Pau François Bayrou … And the former head of government, the ex- LR Edouard Philippe.
Which, after having multiplied the selfies at its entrance, this time receives a “standing ovation” from the public.
To continue to gather, Emmanuel Macron therefore borrows and sends signals.
Here on the right, with Nicolas Sarkozy's "
work more to earn more
" in 2007. There with communists and revolutionaries, with "
their lives are worth more than profits
" by Olivier Besancenot in 2002. Then comes the left, with François Mitterrand's
"
quiet strength
" in 1981 and his "
United France
" of 1988, then an adaptation of François Hollande's "
change is now
" in 2012. And even, finally, the nationalists, with the "
comme c' is impossible, we will do
it” by Éric Zemmour.
Exactly.
Certainly, the "
rule
" of 2017 remains unchanged, in the name of "
respect
" and benevolence: "
Here, we do not whistle, anyone, ever
".
The crowd takes the risk, however, when Emmanuel Macron begins to talk about the far right.
But he interrupts her.
“
Democracy is about fighting
”.
And it's about leading them.
Especially against what he recently called “
the tandem
” of
the “extreme right
”.
He still does not name his opponent of Reconquest!, nor the candidate RN Marine Le Pen.
But he willingly targets them, accusing them of embodying “
the great stunting
” and “
the great withdrawal
”.
So many "
dividing forces
to which he opposes “
an independent France in a strong Europe
”.
"
France is a block, and we don't sort, we don't choose, we love it all and we take it as it is
," he urges.
"
No to political correctness, but not to politically abject
", he continues, regretting that we are collectively "
accustomed
" according to him to "
extremist danger
".
Wherever he comes from, including from the left, a fringe of which “
pours into communitarianism complacently encouraging indigenous and anti-republican movements
”.
It is as a rampart against all these that it arises.
"
I want neither arrogance nor defeatism, I want general mobilization, will and action.
(...) Help us, join us!
".
"
April's choices are simple, basically
," he concludes.
Especially when presented like this.