Emmanuel Macron is campaigning at a minimum. Even if the polls follow and look alike, giving him the win each time, there is a risk in carrying out such a campaign, and his supporters fear a backlash in the legislative elections.
Emmanuel Macron’s campaign is reduced to the bare minimum. The President of the Republic gives priority to the war in Ukraine, and this week, there are only three interviews in the media on his candidate’s agenda. Only one meeting is scheduled before the first round. Officially, all of Emmanuel Macron’s supporters brush aside criticism from the opposition, which is indignant at seeing an outgoing president who does not campaign.
A concern rises in the whispers
But behind the scenes, it’s a different story… A Macronist minister from the start worries about the consequences of a campaign ” without candidate “and without effect” wow “when a relative of Emmanuel Macron regrets” the excitement of 2017 and notes the lack of risk-taking that he attributes to the war in Ukraine which does not leave the president enough ” brain time available to devote to the campaign.
The danger that everyone identifies? Demobilization and that sympathizers do not go to vote saying to themselves: ” it’s folded, it will go through tacit renewal “. Because the stake for Emmanuel Macron is the score of the first round and the reserves of votes for the second… and even the third round, that is to say the legislative elections. A risk that a deputy does not minimize: “ We have to campaign otherwise we will get a backlash in the legislative elections “.