Initially there is a ” trauma “, he acknowledges. That of April 21, 2002, when the candidate of the National Front (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen, managed to climb to the second round of the presidential election against Jacques Chirac, eliminating, to everyone’s surprise, the first socialist minister at the time, Lionel Jospin. In October 2016, Emmanuel Macron explained that it was this event that prompted him to enter politics. “We always build our political commitment on indignation. Mine is April 21, 2002. My commitment comes from there, from this indignation”then explain to Figaro Magazine the one who has just resigned from the Ministry of the Economy to prepare his first candidacy for the Elysée.
The ambitious man makes it his mission to remedy “inefficiency” public action to prevent the far right from taking the reins of the country one day. “If we don’t pull ourselves together, next May, or in five years, or in ten years, the National Front will be in power. No one can doubt it any longer.”he develops the following month in his program book, Revolution (XO editions).
Unlike other politicians, whom he compares to “sleep” turning a blind eye to ” climb “ continues of the extreme right, and worse, to “cynics” making the bet “that the National Front will allow them to gain easier access to power”he poses as a fierce opponent of the Lepenist party, giving himself the priority objective of “fight”. “It is for this reason that I wanted to constitute a new political force which we called “En Marche!” », he explains. On November 5, 2016, he made an impression when he said he could not ” accept “ to see the FN reach the second round “in every presidential election”.
Semantic shift
“My adversary is finance”, said François Hollande? He, president, will therefore be the extreme right. As a reason for being. Fight against this party which “smears the Republic” being ” a duty ” and a question of “values”, according to the future president. And a compass for his young formation. This political will finds a concrete translation: once at the Elysée, in 2017, Emmanuel Macron sets up a device against the formation of Marine Le Pen, which has become the National Rally (RN). In January 2019, four months before the European elections, the general delegate of La République en Marche (LRM), Stanislas Guerini, announced the creation of an internal unit responsible for setting up “a strategy of struggle” against the RN. Along the way, he urges his troops to lead “an offensive campaign” against the “part of the lie”, which he heavily targets. Without having a single word for the other opposition forces.
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