At the time when Emmanuel Macron receives his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, the Macronist candidate for the Europeans, Valérie Hayer, unveils her program for the June 9 elections. Very clearly behind in the polls by the RN, the list of the presidential majority makes the choice “ to Europeanize » the campaign against the National Rally which is making the elections an anti-Macron referendum.
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To try to get back on track, everyone is doing it, including those absent from Valérie Hayer’s list, such as the former minister and MP Clément Beaune, now spokesperson: “ When we have confrontations project by project, idea by idea on Europe, things generally go less well for those who have been campaigning on other themes for months and months. »
The forty-eight propositions
Need for Europe puts forward forty-eight proposals, largely inspired by recent declarations by President Macron: a common fund of 100 billion euros for the European defense industry, a rapid reaction force to evacuate European nationals from war zones or of natural disaster, development of nuclear energy to no longer be dependent on hydrocarbons.
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Defending macronism also means rolling out in Europe what is already done in France, the inclusion of abortion in the European charter of fundamental rights or even the creation of a European culture pass. This program is the setting to music of Emmanuel Macron’s speeches and interviews.
A leaflet printed in six million copies
The president recently said he would get even more involved in campaignValérie Hayer does not yet know in what form: “ I will obviously leave it up to him to decide when and how he gets involved. But already indeed, this photo is the illustration of what France is in Europe. »
The photo she is talking about is the one where she appears with President Macron. A leaflet printed in six million copies. One of the illustrations of the coup boost become obligatory for this very complicated campaign until then for the Macronists.
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