In this second episode of the series, Laureline Dupont, deputy director of L’Express, and Eric Mandonnet, editor-in-chief of the Politics department, tell how the movement changed the trajectory of the five-year term.
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The team: Charlotte Baris (presentation and writing), Jules Krot (editing and direction)
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Charlotte Baris: On January 24, 2019, at the end of the day, Bourg de Péage in Drôme received a surprise guest: Emmanuel Macron. While traveling in the department, he comes to participate in a citizen debate, like those organized throughout France. A week ago, the president launched this major consultation in Normandy, surrounded by elected officials, to ease the tensions which have lasted for almost two months. This time, he found himself facing the French, without an intermediary.
The President of the Republic sits on one of the chairs set up in a circle in the middle of 200 people. Next to him, one of the participants even wears his yellow vest. For more than 3 hours, he will listen and answer all the questions.
With students, with women, in shirt sleeves, in Burgundy or Aquitaine… For weeks, these images of a president in contact with the French will multiply. This great debate is the response that Emmanuel Macron chose to the yellow vest movement. A movement which will shake up his mandate and especially his method.
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