Many blamed him for not campaigning and staying too far from the ring before the first round. But this time, his supporters promise: ‘It will wet the shirt!“. After his qualification for the second round of the presidential election obtained brilliantly with nearly 28% of the votes cast, Emmanuel Macron decided to kick off his campaign for his re-election. The Head of State went as soon as this morning, Monday April 11, 2022, on the land where his challenger Marine Le Pen again established scores well above the national average. He met the inhabitants of Denain, a city in northern France, where poverty and mass unemployment thrive.
Flagship theme of the campaign of the candidate of the National Rally, Emmanuel Macron therefore came to talk about “purchasing power” with the inhabitants. The President of the Republic spent nearly six hours shaking hands but also talking to the people who came to meet him. And the reception has not always been the warmest in the face of the anger of some.
“You are not the people’s president at all. […] I am the anger that has been in the streets for three years, it has never been seen in France.”, send him two women members of the Yellow Vests. “I get up every morning to go to Lille, I travel 70 km every day, there and back, I pay 500 euros for petrol and my wife is on parental leave. I do not even touch 1700 euros. I don’t ask for much. I’m fed up, we have to rake everywhere and after, we have nothing financially”, says a bus driver. The Head of State also had a very lively exchange on the health situation with a resident of Denain who criticized him for his remarks about unvaccinated people. “Fuck the unvaccinated, I said it affectionately,” he explains to her. “Ah well me when I say to someone “fuck you”, it’s not affectionate“, answers the young woman.
Emmanuel Macron continues his tour of France in the days to come. The Parisian indicates that he could go to Amiens and Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), a city whose mayor is none other than his former Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe. But not before April 13.
Thibaud Cruz
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