The president-candidate made his big meeting between two rounds in Marseille in Mélenchonist land. Faced with a meager audience of activists, he made a point of defending the environment and ecology in this final stretch of the campaign.
It was on a very sparse lawn that Emmanuel Macron declaimed his profession of faith in front of activists and elected officials. Former LR executives made the trip: Christian Estrosi, mayor of Nice, Renaud Muselier, president of the PACA region. The one who made 22% of votes in the Marseille city shakes a few hands then stands behind the desk. We hear voices here and there shouting individually: “And one and two, and five more years”. An impression of an end-of-campaign fair with only 4,000 people present according to the organizers.
Emmanuel Macron, in shirt sleeves, on his blue white red hexagonal stage, in the middle of his desks and teleprompters, begins: “Marseille is fraternity at the heart of the Republic, a laboratory. “He quickly shifts to the” France of the next day in a united Europe in the face of the pandemic, as it knew how to be for the war in Ukraine “creating, in fact, an ideological fracture with the National Rally. He then explains that his project is a “project that believes in people” and then winks at the athletes and the entertainment world who have signed a platform to block Marine Le Pen: “Culture. You are so many to fight against the ideas of the extreme. Against the far right […] By the beautiful. Sport, which allows everyone to build, which knew the roof of Europe, one day in May 1993. Thank you Dimitri [Payet]. “Macron President!” are heard.
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After digressing on health issues – “a project for health, which wants to rebuild this equal opportunity on the ground” -, neighborhoods – “We must break down the walls that isolate, open schools, the culture that allows live. This is our destiny. Because we are countries of openness, of millennia of migrations, of movements, of migrations” – Emmanuel Macron rebukes the far right, from Le Pen to Zemmour: “This French pride is that, not the great stunting, the great separation, not to say to children born on our soil, our Republic that there are no more rights, ever. »
“We are not the side of the system. Never ! “, he chanted
The outgoing president adds that “what is being played out on April 24 should not be a renewal, but a reinvention, a new conviction” then belches: “We are not the camp of the system. Never ! Then comes the main theme of the meeting, the one that allows her to put aside – even at a distance, the polls will perhaps show – Marine Le Pen: ecology.
“We heard two messages: First that the environment must be at the heart of our campaign and the years to come, then that of the greatest scientists of the whole world with the report of the IPCC. We have three years to meet the commitments of the Paris agreements to bequeath a livable planet. “While the polls show a young sociology in the Mélenchonistes and Lepénistes ranks compared to LREM, Emmanuel Macron speaks directly to his new potential targets: “It is up to us to act and do. This ecological message of the first round, which our youth advocates, carries from march to march and from mobilization to mobilization, we must give it a new perspective. »
The president-candidate then goes on to the successes of the five-year term (cycle paths, reopening of night railways, doubling of organic farming areas, first country in Europe in terms of organic area), and relies on it, unlike Marine Le Pen, to the IPCC report: “The IPCC asks us to go twice as fast, so you know what? We will do it ! He also explains that he wants to “fight against eco-anxiety” and displays an ambitious slogan: “The five-year term will be ecological or it won’t be!” »
Denormandie future Prime Minister?
As for the governmental organization, Emmanuel Macron affirms that his “Prime Minister will be directly responsible for ecological planning” – close-up on Julien Denormandie, current Minister of Agriculture and very loyal supporter from the start. The candidate continues: “The Prime Minister will be supported by two strong ministers and will have the mission of making France the first major nation to get out of gas, oil and coal. If the names of Christine Lagarde – whom she immediately dismissed – or Elisabeth Borne were blown behind the scenes, it would seem that the Minister of Agriculture is in a good position to settle in Matignon. Be careful, Emmanuel Macron has accustomed us to surprises. His choice will obviously be important because Jean Castex’s successor will have the heavy burden of leading the legislative battle at the head of a large gathering with still very vague contours.