President Emmanuel Macron promised, this Sunday, June 23, “to act until May 2027”, even if his camp finds itself in a delicate position one week before the legislative elections, admitting that “the way of governing must change profoundly” at the end of the vote.
While some of his opponents, led by Marine Le Pen, suggest that he will be forced to resign in the event of defeat on June 30 and July 7, Emmanuel Macron responded in a letter published in the regional daily press: “You can trust me to act until May 2027 as your President, protector at every moment of our Republic, of our values, respectful of pluralism and your choices, at your service and that of the Nation.”
Returning, in this missive, to the reasons which pushed him, on the evening of the European elections, to pronounce the dissolution of the Assembly, Emmanuel Macron recognized that his decision had sometimes aroused “anger directed against (him)” . Above all, he detailed the issues at stake in the upcoming election, which is “neither a presidential election, nor a vote of confidence in the President of the Republic” but the answer to “a single question: who to govern France”.
“Don’t give up. Vote”
Faced with the National Rally and the left-wing alliance of the New Popular Front, the head of state advocates his “third way”, left behind in the polls by his adversaries. “The objective cannot only be to continue what has been done. I heard that you want that to change,” he continues, calling in particular for “much stronger and firmer responses” on “the ‘insecurity, impunity’.
“The next government will have to overhaul childhood policy, better protect our young people and fight more strongly against all discrimination,” he also pleads, noting the “strong demand for social justice”. Above all, by saying he measures “the democratic malaise”, namely “this divide between the people and those who run the country that we have not succeeded in resolving”, Emmanuel Macron admits that “the way of governing must change profoundly”.
“The coming government, which will necessarily reflect your vote, will bring together, I hope, the republicans of various sensibilities who will have known through their courage to oppose the extremes”, he writes again, while his camp multiplies the outstretched hands to right and left to hope to thwart the predictions. The president also appealed to abstainers, asking them not to be “afraid”. “Don’t give up. Vote,” he concludes.