“I bring republican support to Emmanuel Macron.“ In an interview with the Journal du Dimanche, the former mayor of Belfort expressed his support for the Head of State.
In it, he details his hope that the outgoing president can “turn the country around and give meaning to politics“in a second term.
“The left has lost its ideological bearings. _No candidate represents this left rooted in the soil of the Enlightenment_which claimed to give control of their destiny to everyone, individually and collectively“deplores the man who was Minister of National Education and then of Defense under François Mitterrand, and Minister of the Interior of the government of cohabitation of Lionel Jospin in the 90s.
“Allied between the tradition of social progress and the culture of the State”
“Mélenchon has a certain talent, but a problem with the Republic. The Sixth Republic of which he dreams would only be a return to the assembly system..”, continues Jean-Pierre Chevènement: “As for the others, they remained in the wake of social-liberalism. What choice can a left-wing voter make between these relics? Many will prefer, I believe, this alloy between the tradition of social progress and the culture of the State, to which Emmanuel Macron tends.“.
To his eyes, “macronism does not exist. There is Emmanuel Macron, who is a free being, who thinks for himself and who decides.“
Jean-Pierre Chevènement has already appeared with Emmanuel Macron, in particular during the visit of the President of the Republic to Belfort on February 10. He also called to vote for him in the second round of the election in 2017, against Marine Le Pen.