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This Wednesday evening, in front of the 10 official candidates of the presidential majority of Seine-Maritime gathered in Le Havre for a public meeting, Édouard Philippe read a speech.
But it wasn't his.
This speech even dates from… 1872!
And was pronounced by a certain Léon Gambetta:
“In 1872, Léon Gambetta made a tour of France to speak to the French about the Republic.
He is then called “the commercial traveler”.
He tells them one thing: wish only the good of France!
".
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Sitting in an onion row in the front row of the François I room, well known to Le Havre, the ten candidates remain silent.
Where is he coming from?
The former prime minister then plays with his audience.
Minaude.
Then quotes Léon Gambetta again:
“Gambetta called for free candidates to represent free men in the search for the good of France…”
The audience applauded.
The mayor of Le Havre savors its effect and logically calls
"to give the National Assembly a strong majority to the President of the Republic with free women and men".
The time is unity
In short, the
“nervous breakdown”
to reach a good agreement between all the components of the presidential majority is over.
The time is no longer for puzzle-like scattering but for unity
“of free women and men”
united under the banner Together!
Among the majority candidates invested in Seine-Maritime, in fact, five are Renaissance (ex-LRM), four are Horizons and one is MoDem.
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Configured to accommodate 300 seated supporters, the village hall, where the memory of the meetings of the former mayor of Le Havre, Antoine Rufenacht, still hangs, is full.
A few dozen people remain standing in the background.
Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, candidate for her own succession in the 7th constituency, was the first to speak.
“It was in this room that Antoine Rufenacht launched his campaign in 1995 and opened his list to women but also to people of goodwill who were not necessarily on his side.
This is what we are doing today, together with Édouard”
.
New applause.
The president of Horizons, whose party only obtained 58 nominations at the national level, insists:
“The French made their choice by electing the President of the Republic.
The question is no longer to return to it or to organize a third round!
We must give a strong majority to the President of the Republic to govern and be effective”.
And to put the laughers on his side again:
“I saw that someone who is not a candidate in the legislative election hopes to win it… Funny logic!
Pell-mell, he lists the
“
extravagant proposals”
of the far left and the far right on nuclear power or even on the exit from NATO.
The room is already convinced.
Useless to insist.
It's already time to sing a
standing
Marseillaise .
End clap.