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News of the day: Declared candidates demand an electoral debate despite the war in Ukraine
Thirty-nine days before the first round, they are worried. The declared candidates are increasingly openly annoyed at the idea that the democratic debate is not taking place, that the presidential campaign is hampered by the war in Ukraine and that Emmanuel Macron is still not an official candidate.
The sovereignist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, candidate of Debout la France, denounced Wednesday March 2, on the set of France 2, a “certain instrumentalization of the Ukrainian drama”which allows, according to him, to eclipse the campaign. “If there is not a real election in thirty-nine days, what will be the mandate of the future candidate and the future president? »he wondered, echoing the remarks on the lack of debate in this campaign, which have been made in recent days by several candidates for the presidential election.
“It would not be a question of Russia’s aggression depriving the French of what is the cornerstone of our democratic system”, had argued Marine Le Pen, the candidate of the National Rally, Tuesday, at the end of an appointment with Jean Castex and several other candidates. “I will do my best to ensure that the campaign runs as normally as possible. The government will put all its energy into this.” declared the Prime Minister on this occasion.
“These are choices of civilization that will be made in 2022. Why am I fighting so much for us to have a major political debate in our country? Because we have the big challenges: climate, biodiversity, capitalism, dictatorship, grabbing of resources”had, for his part, warned Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecologie-Les Verts), Tuesday morning on Franceinfo.
In the meantime, the Head of State will address the French population on Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. regarding the conflict which is currently upsetting Europe. The Elysée informs that this speech has only one objective: to talk regarding the international situation. There should be no question of national politics, even if the outgoing President of the Republic only has two days left to formalize his candidacy.
The photo: Christiane Taubira leaves the countryside
In the end, she didn’t go all the way. Christiane Taubira, the last candidate declared on the left for the presidential election, is forced to give up, for lack of sufficient sponsorship.
She announced her withdrawal from the campaign on Wednesday at a midday press conference. “Despite the mobilization of volunteers, my campaign team, a few people from the Primary populardespite the promises of many elected officials who have not materialized, it is obvious that we will not have the 500 signatures necessary to compete in the presidential election”, she pointed out.
The former Keeper of the Seals then denounced the system of sponsorships. “This candidacy is prevented by an administrative system that will not survive this campaign, it is living its last hours”, estimated Christiane Taubira while she was disposing, Tuesday 1is March, only 181 signatures out of the 500 needed to stand.
At the end of the intervention, she specified that she “You will express[t] publicly [s]on vote » for the first round, ” in the next weeks “. Since his declaration of candidacy two months earlier, in mid-January, his maintenance in the race for the Elysée became more and more improbable.
The sentence: “The international situation removes all hesitation”… Jean-Pierre Raffarin announces his support for Emmanuel Macron
It is a new rallying from the right that Emmanuel Macron registers for the presidential election, when he has not yet declared himself as a candidate for his succession. Jean-Pierre Raffarin, former Prime Minister (2002-2005), announced his support for the outgoing President of the Republic, at the microphone of LCI on Wednesday morning.
“This five-year term will undoubtedly remain one of the most difficult in our history. (…) The president, in my opinion, has lived up to the position.he assured. “I want his candidacy, and I will support him. The international situation is particularly threatening, but Emmanuel Macron is both the youngest and most experienced candidate, it is rare.continued the one who had left Les Républicains in 2019, but who remains affiliated with the right.
He also justified his decision not to support the candidate of his former party. “I have thought a lot regarding this subject because I have consideration and affection for Valérie Pécresse, but the dangerousness of the international situation today removes all hesitation”, he said, before adding: “The time is for national unity, we must rally behind the head of our executive. »
In the archives of the “World”: in 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy tries to spare Jacques Chirac
If international issues are essential today in the presidential campaign because of the war in Ukraine, this theme was also at the center of attention in 2007. Fifteen years ago, seeking to camp as a statesman , Nicolas Sarkozy exposed, in a long speech, his vision of the foreign policy of France. Stating that his desire to « diagnostic » was not “the prelude to a clean slate”it paid tribute to the action carried out by Jacques Chirac during his two terms of office.
“Mr. Sarkozy first praised the “firmness” of Mr. Chirac, whose support he expects in the electoral campaign, on the subject from bosnia and of Kosovo »can we read in The world of March 2, 2007, as well as “ the “lucidity” which allowed him not to involve France in “the uncertain enterprise of a war in Iraq which was a historical error””.
“He also approached the Head of State’s point of view regarding the United States, refusing any ‘submission’ to a country of which France is the ‘unwavering’ ally”write journalists Natalie Nougayrède and Philippe Ridet. “I ask our American friends to leave us free, free to be their friends”, said Mr. Sarkozy. Taking a question from a foreign journalist, he tries once once more to shed his reputation as an Atlanticist, challenging the journalist to “find a text or a program where [il a] supported George Bush in Iraq.
“The development of Russia is ‘worrying'”, believes Mr. Sarkozy, and the “silence is not acceptable” It front of “200,000 dead and 400,000 displaced wars in Chechnya ». “This silence, Mr. Sarkozy himself had however observed in 2002, when, Minister of the Interior, he had launched cooperation with the Russian secret services, within the framework of the fight once morest “Chechen networks” »report our journalists.
On the agenda for Thursday, March 3:
Displacements. Yannick Jadot, environmental candidate for the presidency, goes to the Agricultural Show from 8:45 a.m. The sovereignist Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, candidate of Debout la France will also meet the peasant world at the Porte de Versailles, in “the largest farm in France”at 10 o’clock.
Grand oral. The socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo participates in the followingnoon in the Assizes of the security of Urban France, in Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire). Nicolas Bay represents Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!), Ugo Bernalicis is present for Jean-Luc Mélenchon (La France insoumise), Pierre Garzon for Fabien Roussel (French Communist Party), Julien Sanchez for Marine Le Pen (National Rally) and Sabrina Sebaihi for Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecology-The Greens).
In the post. Marine Le Pen, the RN candidate, is the guest of the political program “Elysée 2022”, at 8:40 p.m. on France 2.