Accustomed to going it alone, Emmanuel Macron could override the various opinions of his advisers on his probable entry into the campaign. After all, the head of state has already done as he pleases, like that famous day against Sibeth N’Diaye.
Advice is fine. To have an intimate conviction or a certain instinct is better. A handful of months before the 2022 presidential election, Emmanuel Macron continues to dodge questions about his potential candidacy, even though he has previously confessed to readers of the Parisian “have the desire“to run for a second term. The members of his government, his wife Brigitte Macron, and their relatives are regularly questioned by the media on this thorny subject, in an attempt to find out more. The outgoing president is used to not do as he pleases.”Macron is very instinctive, he will ask the question of the form of his candidacy to people who will have an opinion. And he won’t necessarily listen“, reveals a close friend to the Parisian, Friday, January 21, before the newspaper takes the example of this time, where the youngest leader of the Fifth Republic ignored the advice of his former secretary of state.
In her book “Le solitaire du palais”, freshly published by Robert Laffont, Laurence Benhamou, journalist for Agence France-Presse, recounts a scene of tension just before the Great National Debate, her very first one which took place on 16 January 2019 in the Eure. She details:The atmosphere is tense, as in schoolyards, where we then play CRS and Yellow Vests, chanting Macron’s resignation. On the threshold, Sibeth Ndiaye whispers to the Head of State: You don’t do more than two hours. He answers him with humor: I do what I want!“The meeting will last almost seven hours.
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Trust your intuition
“When he announces the Great National Debate in the midst of the Yellow Vests crisis, no one is aware. Same thing when he decides to lift the confinement on May 11, 2020: everyone around him was against it. But he did it on intuition, he broke free“, concludes the reporter. Soon a new postage for his declaration of candidacy?
Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.
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