Singing Vierzon, here is the test!, could have written Céline. Jacques Brel stuck to it. Nevertheless: the sub-prefecture of Cher is exemplary of these territories which have suffered the “bite of deindustrialization”, to use an expression dear to Emmanuel Macron. The agricultural equipment factory that was the pride of the city for a century and a half closed in the 1990s. Many shops then closed, giving the image of disused streets, when commercial areas surroundings, they took their ease.
The town, led by the elected communist Nicolas Sansu, provided battalions to the “yellow vests” movement in the winter of 2018. A tag in white letters is spread over a bus shelter: « RIC », a memory of the citizens’ initiative referendum then demanded by the demonstrators. A facetious spirit added a red “e” in front to form the first name “Eric”, in reference to the far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour. A man who assures ” to understand “ the anger of the “yellow vests” and brought up one of their muses, Jacline Mouraud, to the podium of the meeting to launch her presidential campaign, Sunday, December 5, in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Emmanuel Macron, he has not yet declared himself a candidate for re-election for the April 2022 ballot. This does not prevent him, Tuesday, December 7, from walking the streets of the city as if he was. With the difference that the center of Vierzon, cordoned off by the police, seems almost empty. The Head of State wants to demonstrate, according to those around him, that he is “Listening to the French people and their needs, as closely as possible to their concerns”. So here he is going up the avenue de la République, stopping in front of shoe stores, clothing stores, chocolate shops, or to have a glass of white wine at the café with the few inhabitants present.
No minister accompanies him. The Elysée tenant is looking for a “real contact with the population”according to the deputy (La République en Marche, LRM) of Dear François Cormier-Bouligeon. “France is not just Paris, it’s also Berry”assures the one who was the deputy chief of staff at Bercy of the former minister of the economy.
A phone call from Joe Biden to Châteaumeillant
From Marseille to Aisne, via the North, Emmanuel Macron has been increasing his travels since the start of the school year to respond to the lawsuits for disconnection and arrogance that have been brought against him for four and a half years. The opportunity to praise the various plans put in place during the five-year term for “territories”, such as “Action heart of the city” or “Small towns of tomorrow”. He attended, in the evening, the municipal council of Châteaumeillant (Cher), a village of 1,700 inhabitants. Not without having previously received, from the mayor’s office, a phone call from the American president, Joe Biden, on the ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
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