(Paris) French President Emmanuel Macron promised on Sunday “to act until May 2027”, the end of his mandate, even if his camp finds itself in a delicate position facing the far right one week before the legislative elections, admitting that “the way of governing must change profoundly” following the election.
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“The coming government, which will necessarily reflect your vote, will bring together, I hope, republicans of diverse sensibilities who will have known through their courage to oppose the extremes,” he pleaded in a letter to the French distributed in the press.
While some of his opponents, Marine Le Pen (National Rally, far right) in the lead, suggest that he will be forced to resign in the event of defeat in the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7, Emmanuel Macron replied: “you can trust me to act until May 2027 as your President, protector at every moment of our Republic, of our values, respectful of pluralism and your choices, at your service and that of the Nation.”
Returning in this missive to the reasons which pushed him, on the evening of the European elections, to pronounce the dissolution of the Assembly, Mr. Macron recognized that his decision had sometimes aroused “anger directed against [lui] “.
Above all, he detailed the issues at stake in the upcoming election, which is “neither a presidential election, nor a vote of confidence in the President of the Republic” but the answer to “a single question: who to govern France”.
Faced with the extreme right and the left-wing alliance of the New Popular Front, the head of state advocates his “third way”.
“The objective cannot only be to continue what has been done. I heard that you want that to change,” Mr. Macron continues, calling in particular for “much stronger and firmer responses” on “insecurity, impunity”.
“The next government will have to overhaul childhood policy, better protect our young people and fight more strongly against all discrimination,” he also pleads, noting the “strong demand for social justice”.
Above all, by saying he measures “the democratic malaise”, namely “this divide between the people and those who run the country that we have not succeeded in resolving”, Mr. Macron admits that “the way of governing must change profoundly” , while his camp multiplies the hands outstretched to the right and to the left in the hope of thwarting the predictions.
The president also appealed to abstainers, asking them not to be “afraid”. “Don’t give up. Vote,” he concludes.
