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7:09 p.m., March 11, 2024
This Sunday, Emmanuel Macron gave an interview to La Croix and Libération. And he announces that a bill on the end of life will be presented to the Council of Ministers in April. He takes a position on a major social issue. A strategy three months before the European elections?
Emmanuel Macron is going to the front and he is not moving forward, he has discovered. The president takes a position, after the inscription in the Constitution which will remain forever as a marker of his years at the Élysée. The head of state now wants to allow assisted suicide and euthanasia.
A progressive strategy to divide different parties
Dividing societal choices that fit into its political agenda. Although he hesitated for a long time and consulted a lot, it was finally three months before the European elections that he decided to reveal his game. A way of showing himself as holding a progressive line and dividing his adversaries such as The Republicans or the National Rally, far from being unanimous on such issues.
A strategy already at work regarding the war in Ukraine. The president himself asked for a debate to be held this Wednesday and tomorrow in Parliament on the Franco-Ukrainian security agreement. The main objective of the executive will be to denounce the ambiguities of the RN towards Russia. All the meaning of the start of the campaign of the head of the Macronist list, Valérie Hayer, left behind in the polls by Jordan Bardella.