“I think that there are a lot of fears, of worries in the moment we are experiencing and that these angers always benefit from the most simplistic responses,” declared the Head of State upon arriving in Brussels for a European summit .
Emmanuel Macron then briefly spoke with the press alongside the head of his camp’s European list, Valérie Heyer, who is struggling to make her mark in the campaign. It was their first public appearance together since the start of the campaign.
“A kind of hypocrisy of the debate”
The Renaissance list remains well behind in the polls by that of the National Rally, which continues to widen the gap and prances at 30% of voting intentions. With 16% intentions, it is also now closely followed by that of PS-Place Publique (14%), led by Raphaël Glucksmann, according to a Toluna-Harris Interactive survey published on Wednesday.
“There is today a kind of hypocrisy in the debate and I hope that by entering into it in the coming weeks, this hypocrisy will be lifted,” he added, targeting the National Rally in particular. , whose European list is led by Jordan Bardella.
The presidential camp is hanging on the head of state’s entry into the campaign, the contours of which have not yet been specified, while Prime Minister Gabriel Attal remains discreet on the matter for the time being.
The vote, on June 9
He is also betting that the campaign will only really start in the home stretch, a month before the June 9 election. “Those who sometimes five years ago said ‘the solution is to leave the euro’, those who do not even vote for the common agricultural policy but then say to farmers at home ‘I defend you’, those who systematically have tried to weaken Europe in some way have the silent dividends of our own pro-European policy,” said Emmanuel Macron.
“They explain ‘we are going to make our country stronger’. If their policy had been followed for five years, we would not be here to talk in the same way about our Europe!”, he continued. “They would have treated (Covid) with hydroxychloroquine, taken the Russian vaccine, divided Europe following Russian aggression. They would not have taken any sanctions (against Russia, Editor’s note), Ukraine would already have been abandoned And they would also have abandoned European ambition in terms of research and technology”, he further asserted.