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In Marseilles, the president-candidate promised that his future Prime Minister would be “responsible for energy planning”. Big nods to the voters of Mélenchon and Jadot, and ultimately little specific commitment.
Attention, this is the new element of language of Emmanuel Macron and his troops. The second round of the presidential election will be “Referendum”, according to the president-candidate. And even several: “for or against the European Union”, “for or against ecology”, “for or against our youth”, “for or against our Republic and this new era”, he listed in an anaphora at the conclusion of his Marseille meeting at the Pharo, Saturday afternoon. It is above all on ecology that the Head of State intends to install a cleavage with Marine Le Pen, brought back into the ranks of “climatosceptics”, to seduce the voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Yannick Jadot. His one and a half hour speech was essentially devoted to the issue.
Macron had pledged several times in recent days to “enrich” his project with proposals from Yannick Jadot and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He got away with it in Marseilles with a lot of words and ultimately few actions. The candidate quickly releases a shock announcement, intended to make an impression. Like public education at the time of Jules Ferry, a reference he invokes, the future head of government will now have the upper hand on environmental issues. “My next prime minister will be …