Emmanuel Macron has put Ukraine back at the heart of his diplomatic, but also political, agenda. The President of the Republic receives this Thursday, March 7 at the Élysée the party leaders in Saint-Denis format, therefore behind closed doors, to talk about Ukraine before a debate organized on March 12 at the National Assembly and on March 13 March in the Senate, on the security pact concluded with kyiv.
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As the European elections approach, Emmanuel Macron continues its strategy which aims to “awaken public opinion” on the issues at stake in the Ukrainian conflict. This is the Ukraine sequence, act 2 for Emmanuel Macron.
By meeting French party leaders, the president engages the political aspect of his remobilization strategy around the war in Ukraine. The latter had been launched since President Zelensky’s visit to France and the conference on aid to Ukraine organized in Paris. At the end of this, he put his foot down, raising the possibility of sending troops there.
Europeans in the crosshairs
This closed session is a way for the president to put the Ukrainian issue back at the heart of the European and national debate, in an agenda that owes nothing to chance. In three months, there are the European elections. And to hear an elected member of the majority: “ for the first time, we will touch people’s daily lives », in this campaign.
The war brings to the fore the questions of “sovereignty, defense, energy”. A minister also explains that we must put the debate around this election at the right level: “war or peace”, in particular by asking the question at the National Rally. And to know if the party wants “Russia’s victory or not?” “. Emmanuel Macron therefore puts on his costume as a war and campaign leader.
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