Gérard Larcher assured France Bleu Normandie that it is his “responsibility to say that an electoral campaign is not simply a kind of agitation to hold an election, that it is an opportunity to raise the issues, to pose the problems.”
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Almost a week after interviewing the “legitimacy” of a president elected without a campaign, the president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, assured France Bleu Normandie that given his position, he is in his “responsibility to say that an electoral campaign is not simply a kind of agitation to make an election, that it is an opportunity to pose the subjects, to pose the problems”. “All the candidates are debating except him [Emmanuel Macron]”he also regretted in an interview with the Figaroon March 15, at the origin of a controversy.
This controversy has not escaped Gérard Larcher. “I saw that even the President of the Republic had said ‘a President of the Senate should not say that'”he observed Monday, March 21, on the sidelines of a trip to Calvados to support the candidacy of Valérie Pécresse, who wears the colors of her party, Les Républicains (LR).
“I’m not going to be cruel, I didn’t express it that way, but a President of the Republic, sometimes shouldn’t have said that, I think of what he said about the non-vaccinated, I think too [à ce qu’il a dit] on unemployment”he tackled, while defending himself from wanting “get into an argument.”
In an interview at Parisian/Today in Franceat the beginning of January Emmanuel Macron had declared to have “very want to piss off the non-vaccinated”. In September 2019, he assured that the unemployed had only to “cross the street” to find a job.
“I have respect for the presidential functionhe continued. The President of the Republic is the President of the Republic, whoever is elected President of the Republic will be the President of the Republic.he said.