“Democracy is made of rules (…) If we start to challenge all the rules, it becomes anarchy”, declared Emmanuel Macron on Friday April 15 on franceinfo, while a protest movement to denounce the poster for the second round of the presidential election has spread to several universities in France this week.
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“First we talk about some moves”put the outgoing president into perspective, before recalling that democratic rules assume that “everyone goes to the project they are closest to in the first round” before, in the second round, “to choose between the two projects that come out on top”. “If you want to build a better world, you have to choose the project you are closest to”continued Emmanuel Macron, for whom “purity does not exist”. “
“You have to agree to choose something that is not totally what you think but which comes closest to it.”
Emmanuel Macronat franceinfo
“I dispute the fact that the far right would be the same as the policy we have pursued for the past five years and the project that I defend”, he added. “I strongly dispute it”insisted Emmanuel Macron while some students defend the slogan “neither Le Pen nor Macron”.
“I claim to be in the republican field”, assured Emmanuel Macron. According to him, “the extreme right, on several occasions, challenged several fundamental values, on the way to reform the Constitution, on the return to the abolition of the death penalty, on the report to journalists and their recusal”. “I think we are in another category”he concluded.
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— franceinfo (@franceinfo) April 15, 2022