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TRIBUNE – The socialist mayor of Saint-Denis, Mathieu Hanotin, calls to vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round of the presidential election. “Not voting for Le Pen will not be enough,” warns the elected official. In the first round, his city voted overwhelmingly for Jean-Luc Mélenchon (61.13%).
Mathieu Hanotin’s forum: “More than ever in the history of the 5th Republic, there is a real risk of seeing the far right enter the Elysée. Like many French people, I regret having, once once more, only the ballot Emmanuel Macron as the only alternative to this fatal prospect. However, in my view, there is no reason to procrastinate in the face of an imminent danger of a total fracturing of French society. On April 24, I will block the candidate of the National Rally by voting for the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.
Make no mistake regarding it.
Standardized thanks to Éric Zemmour in the role of the bogeyman and ripped off by his communication advisers pruning outrageous remarks, Marine Le Pen remains the heir to the worst French political tradition. A French branch of the International of Hate, the Le Pen family is a cousin of the worst nationalist governments: Trump yesterday, Putin today. To entrust her with the reins of the state is to take the risk that she will never return them.
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As Hurricane Marine threatens, we have a common mission with all Republicans: to build the highest and most waterproof seawall possible.
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In Saint-Denis where a third of the population is foreign, the policies of ethnic preference that the candidate of the National Rally wishes to establish will have serious social consequences. Nor do I dare imagine receiving, in 2024, on the occasion of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, athletes from all over the world alongside a xenophobic President of the Republic.
The day following the second round, once the parenthesis that I open today is closed, I will find the ranks of opponents of Emmanuel Macron.
But as Hurricane Marine threatens, we have a common mission with all Republicans: to build the highest, most impermeable seawall possible on Sunday, April 24.
Emmanuel Macron no longer has a choice. If he wishes to win their trust widely, he must hear the message sent by hundreds of thousands of inhabitants of the popular suburbs.
Sunday, April 10, in my city, 69% of voters voted for a left-wing candidate (including a large majority, like everywhere in France, in favor of Jean-Luc Melenchon ). That is 14 points more than in 2017. At the same time Emmanuel Macron was chosen by only 16% of Dionysians and Dionysians, or 7 points less than five years ago.
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Emmanuel Macron must finally commit to reconciling France with its popular suburbs and their inhabitants: at best forgotten, at worst discriminated once morest, too often singled out
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A large part of the citizens of the metropolitan peripheries and working classes are disappointed, bitter and aspire to another model of society. It is on their behalf, as mayor of a city that embodies the suburbs, that I speak today.
Calming society and bringing the Nation back together, rather than blowing on the embers and widening the fractures, such is the duty of a national unity candidate for the presidency of the Republic in this uncertain interval between rounds.
Emmanuel Macron must finally commit to reconciling France with its popular suburbs and their inhabitants: at best forgotten, at worst discriminated once morest, too often singled out.
With all due respect to candidate Macron, all that is missing is the ocean at Seine-Saint-Denis to become California. There is also a lack of means to reduce unfit housing, future prospects for young people and their parents, arms for justice, the police and health, public services that protect and allow emancipation.
To count on the votes, necessary for his re-election, of voters in working-class neighborhoods, the outgoing president must commit to doing more and better for them.
It is a matter of justice. France has no choice but to offer each of its children the same opportunities to flourish. This is the heart of the republican project, today threatened by the National Rally and its candidate.
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For the left from which I come, the indispensable time for reconstruction will come. But that’s not the subject of the crucial 12 days ahead.
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For the left from which I come, the indispensable time for reconstruction will come. But that is not the subject of the crucial 12 days ahead.
The one and only urgent need is to defeat Marine Le Pen at the polls to defend the conception of democracy that we share with the other Republicans.
A democracy that guarantees individual and collective freedoms. A Republic that does not discriminate and ensures equality. A democracy and a Republic of brotherhood that protect the weakest.
In the second round, not voting for Le Pen will not be enough. On April 24, I choose the Republic, I vote Macron. »
