Le World keeps the synopsis of the campaign for the presidential election of 2022: a daily update, published every evening at 7 p.m., reviews the political events of the past day and discusses upcoming meetings.
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News of the day: International crises are on Emmanuel Macron’s agenda and the presidential campaign
Emmanuel Macron will meet Vladimir Putin on Monday in Moscow then Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday in Kiev, the Elysée announced on Friday. A two-step journey which aims to initiate the de-escalation of tensions between the two countries, while the Russian military deployment on the Ukrainian border is becoming more and more threatening. France intends “play a pivotal role” in calming the situation. Emmanuel Macron had preventively canceled a planned trip to Marseille on Monday and Tuesday, to devote himself to the management of this file.
This is not the only hot international subject in which the head of state is entangled, two months before the presidential election. The diplomatic crisis in Mali has also entered the agenda of the President of the Republic, not yet declared a candidate for re-election, and what is more, is at the head of the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union. His political adversaries are thus seizing the opportunity to castigate the international policy pursued over the past five years by the Head of State and hold him partly responsible for the failure of discussions with his counterparts.
About these criticisms, Gabriel Attal, spokesman for the government regretted Friday on the sidelines of a trip to Indre-et-Loire, a “political game” “not quite up to par, when we speak” of one “risk of armed conflict” in Ukraine, and castigated “a number of approximations on their part in recent days” on the Malian file. An explicit reference to Valérie Pécresse and Marine Le Pen who demanded at the beginning of the week the expulsion of the ambassador of Mali from the country, while the latter left France in 2020.
For his part, Emmanuel Macron is waiting for the situation to settle down to declare himself a candidate. He said in an interview with The voice of the North published Tuesday evening: “First of all, I am obsessed that the acute phase of the epidemic and the peak of the current geopolitical crisis are behind us. »
Every Friday, the cartoonist Aurel gives us his eye on the presidential campaign. This week, a look back at the results of an Institut Montaigne survey entitled “A Plural Youth” which reveals the great political “disaffiliation” of 18-24 year olds and which “Le Monde” published on Thursday. Researchers Olivier Galland and Marc Lazar point out that 43% of the 8,000 young people surveyed say they do not have ideas specific enough to position themselves on the left-right scale, while 55% of them cannot indicate a partisan preference. , either because they do not know enough regarding the parties (36%), or because none corresponds to their choice (19%).
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The sentence of the day: Gilbert Collard makes fun of Marine Le Pen
“She will end up president of SOS-Racisme, that’s for sure”
Eric Zemmour’s new spokesperson, Gilbert Collard, a defector MEP from the ranks of the National Rally (RN), was ironic on Thursday regarding Marine Le Pen’s attacks once morest his candidate: “When there is no one left at the National Rally, she will end up president of SOS-Racisme, that’s for sure. »
The presidential candidate had denounced, earlier in the day in Le Figaro, the “communitarianism” and the violence of Mr. Zemmour, around whom she believes she finds “a series of chapels which, in the history of the National Front [ancien nom du RN, jusqu’en 2018], came and then left”. “There are the traditional Catholics, the pagans and some Nazis. All this does not make a presidential posture ”, she said.
In response, Mr. Collard launched on RTL : “It’s still extraordinary to see that she uses once morest us [le mouvement Reconquête !] the arguments that the sores on the left used once morest the National Rally. » For Marine Le Pen, the “poaching” of elected officials by her far-right rival is only aimed at ” to kill ” his side.
The SOS-Racisme association, which recently filed a complaint once morest Eric Zemmour, for its part called for demonstrations on Saturday in Lille, on the sidelines of a meeting of the candidate.
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The campaign in the archives of “Le Monde”
In an article entitled “Jadot takes a step towards the socialist candidate”, dated February 4, 2017, journalist Raphaëlle Besse Desmoulières recounts the hand extended by the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot to Benoît Hamon, freshly nominated socialist candidate. Mr. Jadot had indeed sent, two days earlier, with David Cormand, national secretary of the Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV) party, a text to their activists to explain why ecologists should “open the dialogue with Benoît Hamon and Jean-Luc Mélenchon”. The goal ? “Building a common project. »
“This victory [de Benoît Hamon à la primaire de la gauche], it’s a bit of our victory by proxy,” comments David Cormand to the journalist of the World, delighted that the rebellious socialist emerged as the winner of the ballot. MM. Jadot and Cormand believe that“there is an urgent need to go beyond egos and political apparatuses to favor the social project and the collective dynamic”, “without preconditions on who would be [le] common candidate”.
However, the two environmentalists ask for a “clarification needed” on three points: a final exit from nuclear power, scheduled, progressive and job-creating », an IVe Republic which generalizes proportional voting ” and ” a refoundation of Europe emancipated from lobbies, freed from the dogma of austerity” », written by Raphaëlle Besse Desmoulières.
They also recall that “Since 1974, environmentalists have always been represented in the presidential election” to signify that, in the event of failure of the discussions, the candidacy of Mr. Jadot would be maintained. From his exchanges on this subject with environmental activists, Mr. Cormand retains both “a real curiosity and availability” but also the “trauma” of the Holland five-year period during which they estimate “to have been betrayed[s] » by socialists. On February 23, Yannick Jadot will finally announce that he is withdrawing his candidacy in favor of that of Benoît Hamon.
Saturday 5 February. The candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, opens, Saturday morning, its “presidential convention” in Reims (Marne), which will be held all weekend. She will speak at a large meeting at 6 p.m. During this time, Eric Zemmour, another far-right candidate for the presidential election, will also hold a meeting in Lille (North), from 3 p.m. Martine Aubry, socialist mayor of the city, called with SOS-Racisme to participate at 11 a.m. in a demonstration once morest racism to protest once morest her coming. On the left, will be held Saturday in Paris, at the end of the morning, the first meeting of the support committee ofAnne Hidalgo, piloted by Bernard Cazeneuve.
Sunday 6. The communist candidate Fabien Roussel will hold its first major meeting at 3 p.m. in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône).
