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Emmanuel Macron, then president of the En Marche! movement, and candidate for the presidential election, traveling to Berlin with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, then MEP, on January 10, 2017. ELODIE GREGOIRE/REA
Daniel Cohn-Bendit swears. It is not “neither upset nor angry”. At the beginning of December, seated at the restaurant of a small hotel near rue Daguerre, in Paris, where he is accustomed, the former MEP prefers to talk about a “intellectual disappointment” when he talks about his relationship with Emmanuel Macron. The former leader of Mai-68, who supported him since 2017, announced today Monde his official break with the head of state.
He who was subjugated by the “at the same time Macronian”allowing his eyes to go beyond the left-right divide “unlivable”no longer recognizes himself in the line of the President of the Republic. “There is no more “at the same time””, he deplores, but a policy of “old world” which only rests on one right leg. “The signifier of Emmanuel Macron’s policy was perhaps a mirage”he notes. “I was seduced,” he admits, specifying: “I’m not the upset mistress, that’s not it, eh! »
The messages from the septuagenarian addressed to the head of state have remained unanswered for a long time. Daniel Cohn-Bendit says he makes fun of this brutal presidential disinterest, even if we feel a touch of bitterness when he describes Mr. Macron as a man who “consume people like fruit. At some point, it’s no longer the season.”
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But the wound he describes is more ideological than emotional. While the National Rally (RN) continues its progression, “Dany the Red” claims to have “fear of what the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and therefore Emmanuel Macron, is producing”referring to the immigration bill currently being examined in the National Assembly. « [Gérald Darmanin] made an analysis: France is on the right. And only look for the agreement on the right”he observes, regretting that Mr. Macron does not have the “lucidity” – he does not dare to use the word courage – “to tell certain truths” on the migration challenge: France and Europe need labor immigration – not just qualified people – and we cannot impose quotas on the number of refugees.
“A certain social incompetence”
“Yes, people are panicked. But what I ask of a president like Emmanuel Macron is to confront [la pression exercée par la droite et l’extrême droite] », he gets annoyed. According to him, approaching the subject of immigration in such a right-wing manner will not appease the country. On the contrary, “the consequences will be terrible”he fears. “Let’s say that the text passes – let’s even say that the harshest version of the text, the one voted on by the Senate, passes – what is the result? In four years of the presidential election, nothing will have changed. And who will win? Marine Le Pen ! “, he storms, nostalgic for the balance promised by the Head of State during his speech in Orléans in 2017 combining ” authority ” et “humanity”.
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