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Emmanuel Macron will deliver a speech this Thursday at the Sorbonne, focused on Europe, a few weeks before the European elections. The primary objective being to relaunch Valérie Hayer’s campaign which is running on empty. But, his entourage insists, it will be a “head of state” speech and not a campaign meeting.
Everything is ready. In any case, this is what Emmanuel Macron’s entourage assures, on the eve of the speech on Europe that the Head of State is to deliver at the Sorbonne. The president was able to discuss with the government this Wednesday, during the Council of Ministers, before putting on the role of campaign director this Thursday.
Its primary objective is precisely to go to the front to relaunch Valérie Hayer’s campaign, which is running on empty. The polls are not good for the head of the Macronist list, but it will indeed be a “head of state” speech, specifies one of the advisors, and not a campaign meeting.
“The ideas that are born at the Sorbonne become concrete”
Emmanuel Macron approaches this event with concentration, slips another close friend. In 2017, during his first speech at the Sorbonne, it was for Emmanuel Macron to launch his five-year term. Seven years ago, the sequence made a lasting impression.
“The ideas that are born at the Sorbonne are becoming concrete,” says a close friend of the president who will want to defend his record and, above all, look forward to the future. It remains to be seen whether presidential support will be an asset or a disadvantage for Valérie Hayer. On this point, many are divided within the macronie.