It is now launched on the ground of the presidential campaign. Emmanuel Macron went Monday morning March 7 to his campaign headquarters, located in the 8e arrondissement of Paris, in front of his supporters. Four days following declaring his candidacy in a letter to the French people published in the regional press, the Head of State outlined the contours of his presidential project by proposing “launch three major projects: one for schools, one for health, one for our institutions”, by implementing “four pacts: European, productive, generational and republican” and involving citizens in public decision-making.
Among the avenues he began to mention were the “completion of university autonomy”the “resumption of the pension reform”, “Break down all barriers to health”or ” increase the industrialization of the country to face new challenges” for “to make our nation the first carbon-free nation in Europe”.
“Citizens must participate in decision-making”
“It’s quite moving to find you here. The days are a bit complicated at the moment for the country. And it touches me that you are here, here, and on the other side of the screen.launched Mr. Macron to his supporters, mainly elected officials who granted him their sponsorship and founders of his support committees, present physically or by videoconference.
On site, the mayor of Le Havre and former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Toulon Hubert Falco, the president of the PACA region Renaud Muselier, the mayor of Calais Natacha Bouchart, the mayor of ‘Angers Christophe Béchu, or even Elisabeth Guigou, “justice referent” of his campaign. In the same spirit as that of his declaration of candidacy, he urged his teams to combine “the return of tragedy with a spirit of conquest and a taste for the future”.
After unveiling his three main campaign axes, Emmanuel Macron also insisted on the importance of involving citizens more in the decision-making process during the next five-year term: “On these major challenges, we will associate everyone to produce solutions and to act. Citizens must participate in decision-making in the next five years. »
“We must succeed in the days to come in bringing everyone together around a project that allows for overcoming and political rallying. It is even more important today than in 2017”, he further argued. Otherwise, it would be otherwise, according to him, “ shrinkage » and “preference for the past”. “Many play it, but we must not let ourselves be locked up”he warned.
Several campaign meetings
The outgoing President of the Republic also called on his supporters to “to defend” the results of his five-year term, highlighting “the highest activity rate since it was measured” and “unemployment rate at its lowest”, since 2008, up to 7.4%.
He was also pleased to have “makes women and men who were face to face in 2017 work together”as well as “people who worked in companies and who had talents to share for the country”.
On the difficult combination of his sovereign functions and his new status as a candidate, the Head of State also said: “I will be president as much as I have to, candidate as much as I can, but with the same enthusiasm. » He said he was guided by “humility, sincerity and ambition”, before warning: “Nothing is written, nothing is won. »
At 6.30 p.m., the presidential candidate will go to Poissy (Yvelines) for his first public campaign trip: a conversation with 200 inhabitants around the subjects they will choose, according to a formula similar to that of the exchanges of the great national debate. In the evening, he will intervene in a video recorded at the debate organized by LCI and She, involving several other presidential candidates. Each in turn, they will answer questions from the magazine’s readers regarding their women’s rights programs.