By akademiotoelektronik, 31/01/2023

Who will seduce French in need of protection?

For weeks, the president of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand hammered this shock slogan as soon as it comes to criticizing Emmanuel Macron: "The protection of the French is not in the DNA of the president".In the midst of a global COVID-19 global crisis, with its terrible economic and social consequences (rise in precariousness and unemployment), the former Minister of Jacques Chirac's health does not choose these words by chance, recalling by the sameoccasion that it comes above all from a "social line".A few days ago, against Ruth Elkrief by BFM TV, he also claimed to aspire to the "reconciliation of the French".For almost an hour, installed in the heart of the Louvre de Lens museum, he answered the journalist's questions in a very posed tone, trying to play the protective political official.A bit like François Hollande in his time who had played the "normal president" to try to repair the hyper activism of Nicolas Sarkozy during his five -year term: "It is time that the French have a president who takes care of them, reallyAnd above all, ”explains Xavier Bertrand again, suggesting that Emmanuel Macron is busy at the Elysée to do something else...

Growing inequalities

In short, in ten years, it is as if political discourse in France continued to limit itself to this opposition between "rupture" and "protection".Unfortunately for the French, this "breakdown" both promised by each other has too often been synonymous with destruction (and not of renewal or change), while "protection" has often been limited to immobility.An attitude that we find more and more in the Macronian "at the same time", with billions of euros in aid matching moral lessons on the fact that the French do not work enough, as it could haveRecently do Bruno Le Maire, right in his boots.In short, for a Macron who pointed out in 2017 the growing inequalities between "insiders" and "outsiders", the imposition of a "Stop and Go" strategy "(but can we still speak of a strategy on this subject?) with fire covering and untimely confinements, aggravating at the same time the difficulties of the self-employed, precarious employees, or all "outsiders" precisely, without the government seems to worry about it, is notnot necessarily the best effect a year and a half of the presidential election.

So, faced with Ruth Elkrief who has fun with Xavier Bertrand's "at the same time", the latter is Gaullian, recalling that he found himself in 2015 at the head of the Hauts-de-France region after theleft has decided to withdraw for his benefit against Marine Le Pen.The President of the Region takes the opportunity to recall that he regularly discusses with the mayor of Lille, the socialist Martine Aubry, or that he began an exchange with Arnaud Montebourg, the former Minister of Productive Recovery and the Economy, Historyto make yourself sympathetic to the voters on the left...

The Division Front

Precisely, on this side of the political arc, applications or imitation candidates begin to multiply, letting the front of the division dawn.After having promoted his book, Arnaud Montebourg is actively preparing, and recently said that he would say "in a few months" if he is a candidate or not for the presidential election.His relatives have announced the creation of a new party entitled "Commitment" (which also the title of his book).About fifty people work to set up what is a new party similar.Same movement carried out at the Paris City Hall by Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of the capital, who hides less and less his presidential ambitions, and which announced the launch of a "platform of ideas", called "ideasin common ", whose explicit aim" is to contribute to a social and ecologist left project for 2022 ".

Definitely, it is starting to jostle on the left, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon is not to be outdone: the leader of the rebellious people finds himself in recent days in full operation seduction vis-à-vis journalists.And to try to build the mobilization around his person, his supporters will launch through the platform entitled "Action Populaire" a real social network to "not have to fear the interruption" of his Twitter or Facebook accounts ", and haveannounced the creation in February of a "campaign parliament" serving as a discussion space on the program.

A "republicanist" speech of authority

All of this may be useful, but for these last three contenders, strategies greatly diverge.As much Hidalgo seems to be limited to addressing CSP+ trying to nibble on the new electoral cheese of the ecolos that Montebourg (as in negative of Bertrand's strategy), multiplies the winks with regard to the sovereignist right, going as far as'to emphasize that Donald Trump had not only had bad ideas against the excesses of liberal globalization.It was his famous gimmick: "I have no kinds of sympathy for the character Trump, but...»»

To complete their protection project, Montebourg as Hidalgo now affirm a republicanist discourse, of authority, that would not deny a Manuel Valls.Any other bell sound on Jean Luc Mélenchon's side: the rebellious leader to try to get a health after the multiple disappointments in his post 2017 camp tries to seduce both the yellow vests and the neighborhoods, sometimes flirting with the anti-vaccines, while clearly affirming an internationalist discourse, anti Trump, and being very interested in Africa or defense questions.His criticism of the Barkhane operation in Mali is a way for him to impose a central, sovereign subject, trying to avoid being returned to the margin.This same margin to which a certain Arnaud Montebourg was dismissed when he was minister:

Reste que pour ces candidats « de gauche»», le chemin jusqu'au pouvoir semble encore bien long.Unless...All this does not go as planned.This is what Jean Marie Le Pen secretly hopes, 92, for his daughter. Celui qui prédit cette semaine à l'AFP une « abondance»» de candidats, ce qui, rappelle-t-il « avantage plutôt les candidats dont les noms sont déjà bien connus, comme celui de Marine Le Pen»», « ne voit pas forcément Emmanuel Macron candidat»». À l'exercice du grand bluff, l'heure n'est pourtant pas encore à « demander à voir»» le jeu de l'actuel locataire du Château.Especially since their level, the French are waiting for only one thing, get out as quickly as possible from this crisis which does not end.

Marc Endeweld

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