Presidential: how to exfiltrate Macron from the Élysée

Iers of Jacques Chirac’s campaign remember: in 2002, the President’s campaign headquarters was deserted. And for good reason: everything happened at the Élysée. Ten years later, Nicolas Sarkozy is also seeking a second term. Here again, it is the members of his cabinet at the presidency of the Republic who are leading the campaign, in a very centralized way. Emmanuel Macron will not escape this ambiguity specific to the president-candidate. The proof, his secretary general at the Elysée, Alexis Kohler, is described as the “control tower” of his re-election campaign.

“The campaign is all about Kohler, Kohler, Kohler. This is what will make Macron lose! panics a former evening visitor of the president. It is a mistake to have the campaign handled by the Élysée cabinet and it is a…