The Anglo-Saxon and German press returns to the “casualness” of Emmanuel Macron in the face of the electoral campaign and on the advantage he enjoys as a candidate-warlord. And she is particularly interested in her proposals for France’s energy policy, formulated on March 17 as part of the presentation of her program.
“At this time last year, it was thought that the French presidential election would be played out by a hair’s breadth,” remember The Guardian. The polls even suggested that Marine Le Pen could be neck and neck with Emmanuel Macron and really threaten the chances of the outgoing. The British daily adds:
Today, all those months of political sound and fury mean nothing. Less than a month before the election, Macron is ahead of Le Pen, his most serious rival, by 12 points. It is the largest first-round lead since Francois Mitterrand faced Jacques Chirac in 1988, making Macron’s re-election a near-done deal.”
A case heard, in particular because of the war in Ukraine which made Macron even more popular. This is “the Falklands effect”named after the war between the United Kingdom and Argentina in 1982, underlines The Guardian. “It led to Margaret Thatcher’s dramatic comeback in the polls and then her re-election.”
And while the outgoing president unveiled his program this Thursday, March 17, the American site Bloomberg has chosen to highlight the section concerning France’s energy policy. Emmanuel Macronreiterated that it would build new nuclear power plants and that it would support the use of renewable energies as part of a policy aimed at replacing fossil fuels and achieving carbon neutrality in France by 2050”.
A presentation “sober, without music, without pomp”
The French president also indicated that the state would reinvest in the energy sector “without naming companies”, continues Bloomberg :
The chaos caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the energy market has given a new
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