In general, this is how it works. “Will you be a candidate for re-election?” we ask the outgoing president in front of the television cameras. Which inevitably calls for the same answer: “I am up to the task, I will be until the end. This is the mandate given to me by the French, they would not understand that I care about my re-election… ”This is how the question was put to Emmanuel Macron on December 3, after more than two hours of interview for Brut: “Are you a candidate for the 2022 presidential election?” Reply : “I do not have the right, today, to tell you and put myself in a frame of mind to be a candidate. Why ? Because if I put myself in the position of being a candidate, I will no longer make the right decisions. “ Nothing very original, but the rest was more: “Maybe I won’t be able to be a candidate. Maybe I will have to do things in the last year, in the last months, hard because the circumstances require it.
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Alain Auffray
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