Everything was ready. She had found a substitute and a financial agent, when the news came from Paris, Sunday June 16 in the morning, a few hours before the submission of candidacies: there will be no Macronist candidate facing François Hollande in the first constituency of Corrèze. Emmanuel Macron prefers to support the right-wing candidate, a former Les Républicains (LR), who is part of the “republican arc” – although he voted for censure during the pension reform. Isabelle Celle, the president of Renaissance in Corrèze, would have cried.
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Fatalistic smile from François Hollande, in front of Emmanuel Macron’s oukase which complicates his task a little more, and which he judges “quite pitiful”. He met him on June 9 in Tulle, for the ceremony honoring the 99 hanged in the city in 1944. “He was still convinced that he had made a good move with this dissolution absurd, while the RN [Rassemblement national] is at the gates of power, said the former head of state. He should have taken his time, really consulted, introduced proportional representation to allow political recomposition and, then, only dissolved. »
The socialist candidate also believes that “two characters will disappear: Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for whom it is over, he is rejected by a large part of public opinion. In 2022, he was the solution. Two years later, he’s the problem. And Emmanuel Macron, who has just buried Macronism. The dissolution is that of one’s own mandate”.
The game is far from won for the former socialist president. However, he was a deputy for Corrèze for almost twenty years (1988-1993, then 1997-2012), president of the general council (2008-2012), mayor of Tulle for seven years… “Listen to the people in this market – the far right is everywhere.the candidate in Argentat-sur-Dordogne worried on Thursday. People don’t talk much, they ruminate. It’s not good. » Of course, ladies happily let themselves be kissed, we offer them cherries “for your lady Julie” (Gayet), he has a word or a joke for everyone, we slip him, “glad that you are back in service”but anger never roars far away.
“Unity is never easy”
“You are sold to La France insoumise [LFI], you are rotten! »Jean apostrophizes, taking care not to say his name. He is going to vote for Jordan Bardella’s RN ” without hesitation. It has to blow. It’s going to hurt, but we have to get through it.” At the other end of the market, a couple refuses to shake his hand: “I am deeply left-wing, I don’t want to talk to you” (nor with The worldBesides).
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