How to analyze the speech of the Head of State, who is not officially a candidate for the presidential election?

Emmanuel Macron returned to his five-year term on Wednesday December 15 during an interview recorded and broadcast on TF1 and LCI. The head of state defended his record there, but did not officially announce his candidacy for the presidential election. 2022. However, “Emmanuel Macron himself confides that he has an ambition for France beyond the month of April, ‘obviously’, these are his terms“, reports the journalist Guillaume Daret, present Thursday on the set of the 8 Hours of France 2.

“What he did yesterday is the essential passage for any outgoing president and future candidate, analyzes the journalist. The defense of the balance sheet, the mea then culpa on the form, ‘I learned’ (…), these terms had been used by Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012 (…). Small sentences, he regrets them. “Guillaume Daret also underlines a”empathy issue“, because “his entourage is convinced that we, French, would not know enough the real Emmanuel Macron as they know him, there was therefore a will to reveal himself“. The reporter adds that the president also replied.”to his future rivals“by pointing in particular to the positions by Éric Zemmour on immigration.