Appearance at the Eiffel Tower
Macron is addressing Le Pen’s voters directly
04/24/2022, 10:50 p.m
When Macron appears at the Eiffel Tower in the evening, he not only shows himself in a jubilant pose. Rather, he practices humility and swears the French to difficult years. And has a message for everyone who didn’t vote for him.
In his first appearance after the successful runoff election, France’s election winner, President Emmanuel Macron, promised the voters of his challenger Marine Le Pen consideration. There must be “answers” to their “anger and dissenting opinions,” said Macron. “I am the president of everyone,” stressed Macron.
The new and old president swore the country into difficult years. “I am aware that this vote obliges me for the coming years,” Macron said in front of a crowd in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris in the evening. “The coming years will certainly be difficult, but they will be historic and together we must write them for the new generations,” said the 44-year-old.
“You have chosen a humanist, republican, social and ecological project based on work and creativity, a project to liberate our academic, cultural and entrepreneurial forces,” stressed Macron. “This new era will not be the continuity of the five years of government that are coming to an end.” The President continued: “We will have to be demanding and ambitious. We have so much to do and the war in Ukraine is there to remind us that we are in tragic times with France finding its way got to.”
Thanks to voters who wanted to prevent Le Pen
Macron announced that he would treat the French on an equal footing. “We also have to be benevolent and respectful,” he said. “Because our country is deep in doubt and division. We must be strong, but no one is left by the wayside.” Macron has repeatedly been accused of being arrogant and condescending towards the French. During the election campaign he tried to shake off this image.
The liberal Macron had also received votes from people who did not support his policies but wanted to prevent a right-wing election victory. He thanked them explicitly in his speech. “I am aware that these votes commit me for the next few years,” he said in his brief address, which, like his campaign speeches, he delivered on a hexagonal podium reminiscent of the shape of France.
As with his election in 2017, Macron performed to the sounds of the European anthem. Then an opera singer intoned the Marseillaise. Unlike five years ago, Macron did not come alone, but hand in hand with his wife Brigitte and surrounded by a group of children and young people from the families of his campaign team.