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The Head of State was in Vichy (Allier) on Wednesday December 8. Emmanuel Macron took the opportunity to respond to Eric Zemmour’s comments on the Vichy regime.
Emmanuel Macron was traveling to Vichy (Allier) on Wednesday December 8. The journalist of France Télévisions, Jeff Wittenberg, followed the President of the Republic who day after day “draws the outlines of what will be his future electoral campaign, even if his declaration of candidacy is not yet relevant”. The reporter explains that “This trip to Vichy had in any case an assumed political significance: it was an almost direct way of responding to Eric Zemmour who had affirmed that the Vichy regime had saved French Jews. Well no, Emmanuel told him in substance. Macron even if he did not quote him, even if he did not name the far-right candidate. of State”.
By thus opposing Eric Zemmour, it is a way for Emmanuel Macron to “to stand up against the far right, to be in a way a leader of the progressive camp”, says Jeff Wittenberg. While on the left, Anne Hidalgo seeks to unite the candidates and the right, with Valérie Pécresse “scores points, looks up, Emmanuel Macron, he intends to embody another France. That was the meaning of this visit today and it is a theme that he will continue to develop in the coming days before his official candidacy “, concludes the journalist.