It is a trial that his opponents regularly made to him during the campaign: that of not having descended into the arena soon enough, of not having agreed to confront the French or the journalists after a five-year term marked by a social crisis. .
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Invited on France Inter, Emmanuel Macron defended himself: “
I engaged in political interviews throughout the five-year term.
(...) As much as my predecessors.
The president-candidate then admitted not having "
revolutionized the exercise of presidential power
".
And to add: “
I feel that there was a gap between the political renewal that I embodied and the classicism of the exercise of the function.
Emmanuel Macron now claims to want to "
reform in depth
" the "
way of exercising the presidential function
".