A very special trip for the President of the Republic. For two days, Emmanuel Macron will be in Picardie, in Amiens precisely, where he grew up. And in an interview this morning at Courrier Picard , the head of state presents himself as the child of the country and returns to the sensitive issues of the region, including Whirlpool.
Amiens, "a land that has suffered a lot but is recovering with great courage and ambition" . "I am a child of Amiens". In the columns of Courrier Picard , Emmanuel Macron delivers a facet of his story about which he speaks little: his childhood. "Until I was 16, I did not leave Amiens", explains the president who speaks of this city as "personal, emotionally charged, landscapes, very precise memories". Part of his family still lives there. Amiens, "a land that has suffered a lot but is recovering with great courage and ambition," said the head of state. He seems to want to make the city a symbol of the reforms that work; This is where he will inaugurate the first Maison France Service.
Whirpool, "it's a failure." But the visit of the president is still delicate and the interview of Courrier Picard raises complicated issues: the promised TGV that has never seen the light, the Seine Seine Canal is struggling to succeed. "There is also the issue of student life that I will discuss during my trip," the president said cautiously. But the question that will catch the attention for two days is the resumption of the site Whirpool. "It's a failure," admits Emmanuel Macron, who had personally shown himself alongside a buyer five months after his election. 163 employees still without jobs, it does not suit me. Like them, I believed it. Like them, I was disappointed, "slice the President who promises to relaunch the record