Puycelsi (Tarn) has not always been this postcard village, sitting on a hill surrounded by forest, where Swiss and British retirees come to take care of the stone and their old age. From the time of the Albigensian Crusades against the Cathars, in the 13the century, the town was the scene of a siege which, according to local legend, led the inhabitants to make the village’s only pig cry all along the ramparts in order to simulate the presence of a herd which could support them. during weeks. War is like politics: it’s all about signals and pretense.
Thus the campaign for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19. Despite a voting system favorable to the central forces, the Republic on the Move (LRM) and its allies, united under the banner Ensemble!, raised the threat of a “institutional crisis” what would the union of the left hover over this meeting.
The New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) and its leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, however, should not prevent the constitution of a majority by the Macronist camp, according to the polls. But its dynamic allows Emmanuel Macron to mobilize his voters by playing on the fear of ” disorder ” and “extreme”. A strategy to which the President of the Republic worked, Thursday, June 9, from the ramparts of Puycelsi, therefore. At the risk of drawing criticism for the confusion of roles represented by his involvement in the campaign.
“I want to alert French women and men to the importance of the choice they have before them from June 12th.he says, perched on a platform in the middle of two hundred sympathizers, in a staging evoking the political talks under the IIIe Republic. If the election of the president is crucial, the election of deputies is decisive. » Of its result, assures the Head of State, “The destiny of France and the daily lives of everyone depend on it”. No question, therefore, of giving in to the” indifference “ and to “aquoibonism”preludes to abstention.
In the footsteps of Giscard
But Emmanuel Macron is not satisfied with a simple call to vote. His speech aims to dramatize the issue, in “a moment of great disorder”whether “geopolitics”ecological, social, or “values, with the weakening of democracies all over the Western world”. “Nothing would be more dangerous than to add to the world disorder a French disorder that the extremes propose”he warns, in an attack amalgamating the Nupes and the National Rally (RN), two adversaries he is careful not to name.
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