MACRON. If he is not yet an official candidate, Emmanuel Macron should declare himself soon. While the polls give him a winner, his entourage is in working order.
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- Will Emmanuel Macron be a candidate for a second term in the 2022 presidential election? “We will have to think about it at some point,” he quipped in front of journalists. If his candidacy seems inevitable, the President of the Republic conditions it on two things: “I am first of all obsessed that the acute phase of the epidemic and the peak of the current geopolitical crisis are behind us”.
- The campaign for the presidential majority is already launched, a campaign site “Avecvous2022” was put online on January 27 and posters are popping up in the big cities.
- The polls of voting intentions in the presidential election are flattering for Emmanuel Macron, given the lead in the first round and able to win regardless of his opponent in the second. No French president in office – excluding cohabitation – has managed to be re-elected under the Fifth Republic.
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Macron candidate? “You’ll have to think about it at some point”
February 8 campaign chronicle. 7:19 p.m. Emmanuel Macron plays extra time. As he announced in The voice of the North on February 1, the Head of State has still not formalized his candidacy for the presidential election. Two reasons for this: a Covid epidemic still high in France and an easing of restrictions still not announced, but above all a major diplomatic crisis in Europe with the threat of an invasion by Russia in Ukraine. To avoid this, the President of the Republic tries to play the matchmaker between the two countries to calm tensions. Accompanied by a few journalists on his plane between Moscow and Kiev on Tuesday February 8, 2022, Emmanuel Macron was necessarily questioned on the subject. But he preferred to be ironic: “we’ll have to think about it at some point”. According to him, the Russian-Ukrainian crisis “takes more than half of [s]on time, even most of the last few days”. No matter the incessant calls from his adversaries to declare themselves: “I have no moods”. Until when will he be able to continue in this posture when he has already collected 500 sponsorships? One thing is certain, it will be before March 4: it is on this date, at the latest, that the financial situation and declarations of interests and activities of the presidential candidates must be sent to the Constitutional Council.
Emmanuel Macron in the lead in the latest poll
February 8 campaign chronicle. 2:11 p.m.. The latest poll, carried out by Cluster 17 and published on Tuesday February 8, gives Emmanuel Macron the lead in the first round of the presidential election and with a comfortable lead (23%).
Emmanuel Macron has still not formalized his candidacy for the presidential election of 2022, yet he has already admitted to having “very much wanted” to get into the race. The announcement of a candidacy could however take place shortly, the President of the Republic has in fact made it known that he was waiting for a lull in the epidemic situation to make his decision known. Despite the absence of an official candidacy, Emmanuel Macron seems to be starting a campaign that does not say his name and is increasing his travels and speaking out on various subjects which also happen to be strategic campaign themes.
The “war” is not ruled out, recalled Emmanuel Macron
The diplomatic efforts undertaken by Emmanuel Macron with Vladimmir Poutine – and by Olaf Scholz with Joe Biden – have so far not ruled out the scenario of a military war between Russia and Ukraine. The French president made a point of insisting that the response to the current crisis must be political, with carefully chosen elements of language. Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to “start building a collectively useful response for Russia and for all the rest of Europe”, to “avoid war”. “Our continent is today in an eminently critical situation”. And to add: “We have disagreements, you have noted them and we assume them. Does the task have an element of ingratitude? Yes, resolutely. Should we abandon it? No. If we do not discuss not with Russia, are we increasing our collective capacity to build peace?
Vladimir Putin was less diplomatic, and tinged his speech last night with more belligerent terms. While he indicated that he shared “the same concern” as Emmanuel Macron “with regard to security in Europe”, he added: “If Ukraine joined NATO with a takeover of Crimea with military means, European countries would automatically be drawn into an armed conflict with Russia.To say that Russia is behaving aggressively is illogical, we are not the ones heading towards NATO borders. […]. The powers of NATO and Russia are not comparable, but Russia has nuclear weapons, Europe would not have time to retaliate. Emmanuel Macron doesn’t want that and neither do I.”
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Emmanuel Macron candidate for the presidential election in 2022?
He says he “wants” to, but still postpones the formalization of his decision. Emmanuel Macron has still not announced whether or not he intends to run for a second and final term as President of the Republic. While on the side of La République en Marche, everything has been in order of battle for several weeks to praise the merits of their leader, defend his record and convince the voters to support him for five more years at the Palace, the Head of State still wants to wait. “As soon as there are the sanitary conditions that allow it and that I have clarified this subject, in myself and in relation to the political equation, I will say what it is”, he said. explained in The Parisian of January 4, specifying that “this decision is consolidated in my heart of hearts”. In the history of the Fifth Republic, the official announcements of outgoing presidents seeking a new mandate were made no earlier than two months before the first round. Emmanuel Macron should, in turn, be part of this calendar. According to the Sunday newspaper, we can expect a declaration of candidacy at the end of January, as soon as the epidemic calms down. The president should in any case be a candidate no later than mid-February.
What are the poll results for Emmanuel Macron?
Emmanuel Macron is currently a favorite for his own succession. According to the numerous polls carried out, regardless of the institute, the President of the Republic appears at the top of the voting intentions in the first round, collecting between 20 and 26% of the votes of the electors. Moreover, in the second round, he would be confirmed in his role. However, the match promises to be tighter against Valérie Pécresse than Marine Le Pen. The head of state would be jostled by the president of the Île-de-France region (he is then credited with between 51 and 54% of the votes). Faced with the candidate of the National Rally, Emmanuel Macron is given between 53 and 58% of the vote.
What is Emmanuel Macron’s presidential program?
If he is not yet an official candidate, Emmanuel Macron has already set the course on certain subjects that he aims to cover for a new term.
- He intends to return to the pension reform, abandoned until the national ballot. The president announced it: “We will have to work longer”. Pushing back the retirement age is therefore once again in the cards, to which is added “an exit from special regimes” wanted by the Head of State.
- In an interview at Parisian in early January, he also announced that he would not increase Taxes, that it would review the working conditions and remuneration of certain professions such as caregivers and teachers. He wants to think about a inheritance tax reform to “accompany people to help them transmit modest heritages” and intends to fight against “the entrenchment of poverty”.
- The theme of health imposes itself in this campaign after two years of pandemic. The medical sector has hammered its dissatisfaction and insisted on the lack of means and improvements despite the holding of Ségur. Also, the ministry says it is thinking about a “structural reform of the public hospital” without giving further details except that concerning the “floating of salaries”. Medical desertification is also a theme that should be a priority in Emmanuel Macron’s program.
- For the pane safe, Emmanuel Macron presented his plan in September to “think the police of 2030” with the objective of doubling the presence of police officers in the field over ten years. He also mentioned the presentation of the planning and orientation law for internal security in the course of 2022. With regard to theimmigration the president in office does not abandon his diptych “firmness” and “humanity”.
- On the question of the energy transition, Emmanuel Macron’s reversal in favor of nuclear power is not quite unnoticed. He explains that he chose nuclear power because it is the “most decarbonized possible” alternative and the one for which France is technologically equipped. As for renewable energies, they are not yet a possible solution according to Emmanuel Macron because here again France lacks technologies to rely solely on intermittent energy production. “The day when we have storage technologies, renewable energy will be able to replace coal, gas and even nuclear power. But not today,” Emmanuel Macron told the European Parliament on Wednesday January 19.
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Biography of Emmanuel Macron
Born in 1977 in Amiens (Somme), Emmanuel Macron is the son of a couple of doctors. Eldest of the siblings, Emmanuel Macron has a brother and a sister. During his childhood, he spent a lot of time with his maternal grandmother, principal of a college, to whom he owes his political commitment. The young Emmanuel Macron lived a bourgeois and provincial childhood, and received an education with the Jesuits of Providence, in Amiens. After a baccalaureate S, he entered hypokhâgne and khâgne B/L at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris, then joined Sciences Po Paris in 1998 and obtained, in parallel, a master’s degree and a master’s degree (license today, editor’s note) and a DEA (Master 2). He then entered the ENA in Strasbourg (2002-2004) then was assigned to the Finance Inspectorate after a stint at the French Embassy in Nigeria and the Oise prefecture. For three years, he worked at the General Inspectorate of Finance, then signed with the Rothschild investment bank in 2008, on the recommendation of Jacques Attali. He works on various important files, such as the takeover of Cofidis by Crédit Mutuel, the sale of the newspaper Le Monde, or the takeover of certain Nestlé activities by Pfizer.
Committed to the PS from 2006, he supported Ségolène Royal then François Hollande despite the Socialist Party’s refusal to invest him in Picardy for the legislative elections of 2007. Support for the future President of the Republic, the latter offered him to become Deputy Secretary General from the Elysée Palace in 2012, before appointing him Minister of the Economy in 2014. A position he held for two years, before resigning to run for the presidential election and settle at the Elysée Palace by defeating Marine The pen.