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Emmanuel Macron receives party leaders this Thursday at the Élysée at 10:30 a.m. to discuss France’s position on the conflict in Ukraine. If the Head of State insists on the seriousness of the situation, it is also in view of an electoral deadline: the European elections.
After receiving Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande on Wednesday, and before a debate in Parliament next week, Emmanuel Macron receives the party leaders at the Élysée this Thursday at 10:30 a.m. If Emmanuel Macron is currently insisting on the seriousness of the situation in Ukraine, it is above all to exert all his weight on an international scale. The fact remains that this dramatization is far from trivial three months before the European elections.
“There is a national strategy”
This is the other aspect of Emmanuel Macron’s declarations: in addition to sending a signal to his European counterparts, the head of state wants to torpedo the National Rally (RN). “Yes, there is a national strategy,” an advisor to the President assumes without batting an eyelid. “Talking about the hypothesis of sending troops to Ukraine allows us to better denounce the ambiguous position of the RN vis-à-vis Moscow,” deciphers another.
And Emmanuel Macron to find his warlord clothes, the same ones that he had put on in this speech the day after the Russian invasion. “The war in Europe no longer belongs to our history books or our school books, it is there before our eyes. To this brutal return of tragedy in History, we must respond with historic decisions “, he declared.
The fighting tone returns
24 months later, the combative tone is back: “We are certainly approaching a moment in our Europe where it will be appropriate not to be cowardly. We never want to see the tragedies that come. We never want to see what plays.” The bet is that of the “flag effect” describes a majority framework. This same flag effect which, two years ago, caused voting intentions to jump in his favor. Voters favoring stability at the head of state in times of uncertainty.