2023-09-28 02:43:09
By continuing to refuse to debate with the other candidates, would Emmanuel Macron not undermine the entire point of the electoral process? “If there is no campaign, the question of the legitimacy of the winner will arise,” warned the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher (LR) on Tuesday, estimating that Emmanuel Macron “probably has no no desire to confront his record with reality.”
“The President of the Republic wants to be re-elected without ever having really been a candidate, without a campaign, without a debate, without a confrontation of ideas. All the candidates debate except him. It’s a paradox! », declared Gérard Larcher in an interview with Le Figaro. For the President of the Senate, “our fractured, indebted country facing multiple problems needs this debate.”
The next five-year term will be “very difficult”
“We are doing everything so that there is a campaign,” reacted government spokesperson Gabriel Attal on France 2, recalling that Emmanuel Macron must present his project on Thursday during a “three-hour” press conference. for a second five-year term. “Whenever he can”, the head of state “participates in this campaign”, he affirmed, “but I do not hear the French asking him to desert his functions as president at a moment when, we see in the news, obviously we need a president who continues to act and protect the French.”
Gérard Larcher affirmed for his part that “whoever wins the election in April, the conditions of this election will build its legitimacy”. “This legitimacy will be more than necessary in the face of the economic challenges that present themselves, the major risks of inflation, the tensions on purchasing power, the unaddressed questions in terms of order, security and immigration”, a -he continued, predicting a “very difficult” next five-year term.
“Whatever it takes cannot be transformed into whatever happens. It will take a five-year period of truth,” he warned. Regarding LR candidate Valérie Pécresse, Gérard Larcher regretted that she was “the target of a form of harassment, or even Pécresse bashing”. Finally, questioned about the absence of a position taken by Nicolas Sarkozy in this presidential election, the President of the Senate noted that the former president “is naturally free to make his choices”. “I see that he has not chosen four weeks before the election. Valérie Pécresse is charting her course,” he added.
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