“I couldn’t stop it.“, recognizes Monday, April 4 on France Inter, Emmanuel Macron candidate for his re-election, about the rise of the far right in France in the last five years. The far right which according to the various polls, accumulates nearly 35% of voting intentions for the first round of the presidential election next Sunday.
The outgoing president says he takes part “Who is here [s]ienne” in the rise of the extreme right without making a mea culpa: “I know that we always love to make a President of the Republic say that he has failures. I did a lot of mea culpa. (…) I did not manage to stem it. Afterwards I think that I have not, during these five years, tried to dodge the subjects.
Emmanuel Macron believes that he “There is a great disruption in our societies. We have seen it with the pandemic, the disruption of the living, the ecological disruption, such a geopolitical disruption, the disruption of consciousness linked to social networks, a doubt about information. Everything it creates, in our society, fears. And those who play with the fears rise”.
.@EmmanuelMacron : “There is a great disorder in our societies, ecological, geopolitical, etc. All this creates, in our societies, fears, and those who play with these fears rise. And I have not succeeded in stemming it. ” #le79Inter #Elysee2022 pic.twitter.com/zSgEkfVgPN
– France Inter (@franceinter) April 4, 2022
“What matters to me is (…) to convince people who today are tempted by extremes to explain how extremes do not provide the right answer, that the fears people have are sometimes legitimate but that the real answer is different and that it can sometimes take time”he explains.
He gives some examples of “real answers” that he can bring to the fears of far-right voters: “When we are afraid of inequalities, I do not believe that the answer is to return to a kind of completely closed system which renounces an open economy, but we must have a social market economy”he says.
“When we are afraid of migratory phenomena, I think that we must also defend our DNA, that is to say our duty to welcome those who flee a country at war like Ukrainians and Ukrainians today. today, but at the same time to know how to fight against illegal immigration. It is through this clarity and this requirement that, I think, we can respond to fears and at the same time hold a republican response”he says again.