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Presidential: "I call on the French to vote for Emmanuel Macron", declares François Hollande on TF1

2022-04-14T19:05:43.306Z


The former President of the Republic, guest of 20 Hours of TF1 this Thursday, announced that he would vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the


In turn, François Hollande takes a position in the in-between rounds of this presidential campaign.

The predecessor of Emmanuel Macron, guest of TF1 this Thursday evening, indicates that he will vote for the outgoing president in the second round, Sunday April 24.

“I am not in front of you to give a moral lesson (…), but I know that in such an important election, the main thing is France.

This is the reason why I ask the French to vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round, ”he justifies.

“It is the Macron vote that allows Mrs. Le Pen not to win”, he further supported.

The former first secretary of the Socialist Party, who supported candidate Anne Hidalgo (1.7% of the vote) in the first round of the campaign, called for Emmanuel Macron to be voted in the second round, in 2017, to counter the "risk major" to see Marine Le Pen accede to the Elysée.

Five years later, again: the same two face each other in the race for the Élysée.

But since then, François Hollande has not failed to scratch his successor.

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Emmanuel Macron "probably does not remember" having had François Hollande as an "employer", smiled the latter in an interview on Twitch a year ago.

On the "Macron law" which helped to highlight the one who was then only Minister of the Economy, "Emmanuel Macron was only the instrument of parliamentary debate because he represented the government", had also mocked, on this occasion, François Hollande.

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Since then, the two presidents have had the opportunity to exchange again, due to the crisis situation.

Emmanuel Macron received François Hollande on February 27, the day after Russia invaded Ukraine.

A meeting under the golds of the Élysée which perhaps awakened a deep regret, that "of not (s)having represented".

This decision “taken too soon”, one evening in December 2016, does not prevent François Hollande from returning to a role of influence this Thursday evening.

And he is not the only politician to do so in recent days.

Another baron of socialism, former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin also called on Monday to vote for Emmanuel Macron.

A few moments earlier, it was the former figurehead of the right, Nicolas Sarkozy, who made public his plan to vote for Macron in the second round.

In a match that promises to be tight, Emmanuel Macron has at least these strong voices, on both sides of the political spectrum, for him.

Source: leparis

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