French press review
Headlines: Macron “at the same time” president and candidate
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Emmanuel Macron formalized his candidacy for the presidential election on March 3, 2022. © AFP
By: Norbert Navarro
3 mins
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“
It's the end of the least intense suspense in the history of suspense
,” mocks
Liberation
.
Emmanuel Macron "
is about to live seven schizophrenic weeks - unless they are simply macronists, like a perfect incarnation of
" at the same time "",
Libé still ironically.
Just over a month before the first round of the presidential election, it was therefore by mail that the outgoing president, last night, announced his candidacy for a second term.
A “letter to the French” published by regional dailies like
Ouest-France
.
A candidacy "
against the background of the war in Ukraine
", points "in One"
Le Figaro
.
“
Emmanuel Macron candidate!
The news comes as no surprise, but in other times it would have sparked torrents of analysis, unleashed floods of comments.
Today, when the guns thunder, when men fight and die crushed under the bombs, when a dull anguish grips the whole of Europe, one hardly dares to devote a few lines to a which, suddenly, would seem almost ridiculous
”, sighs Le Figaro.
The president is "
in the arena
", launches
Le Parisien
, specifying that "
it has been a month since he decided to go through a missive
", seeing in this letter an "
obvious
" reference to the address of François Mitterrand in 1988, and underlining “
a pinch of contrition
” but also a “
clear counter-offensive
” to the candidate “
whom he does not name
” but whom
Le Parisien
will have identified as Éric Zemmour.
So much for the letter, but, according to
Le Parisien
, Emmanuel Macron has scheduled another "
campaign message
" this evening on social networks, pending a first trip, Monday, to the Parisian suburbs, before a meeting in Marseilles the week -end of March 12.
Macron, divisive president
And already a first assessment of the Macron five-year term seen by the French.
According to a Viavoice poll for
Liberation
,
46% of French people believe that Emmanuel Macron was a "
bad
" or "
very bad
" president, compared to 42% who, conversely, think he was a "
good
" or a "
very good
" president.
Note, in this survey, that 53% of French people believe that Emmanuel Macron "
did not know how
" to transform France's place internationally, against 39% who think the opposite, points out
Liberation.
The concern of the French in the face of the war in Ukraine
The opinion of the French, again, but on the war in Ukraine this time.
They are more and more worried.
According to an Odoxa poll for
Le Figaro
, the war in Ukraine worries “a
lot
” 52% of French people;
and it worries “
enough
” another 34%, ie a total of 86% worried.
This survey also indicates that one in two French people believe that Russia should be considered "
a necessary evil with which we must deal
", compared to 38% who believe that it should be treated as "
an adversary to be fought
", and 11 % who find that it should be treated as "
an ally, a partner
".
As Le Figaro
still reports
, 77% of French people think that France should “
welcome Ukrainian refugees
”, against 22% who think the opposite.
Identity type
To conclude this press review, to point out the identity and voluntarist character of the "front page" of
Liberation
.
After having decided to abandon the name "
Kiev
" to designate the capital of Ukraine, because this name comes from Russian, to prefer its Ukrainian name "
Kyiv
",
Libé
, this morning, therefore crossed out "its Une" from the word "
Freedom
", written in Ukrainian in the text.
The Peacemaker in Spikes
More facetious, the newspaper
Les Échos
paints a portrait of Roman Abramovich in its own way.
Owner of the London football club Chelsea (which he has just put up for sale), this Russian oligarch "
tries to play the peacemaker between Russians and Ukrainians
" because part of his family, on the maternal side, "
comes from Ukraine
" .
But as this billionaire, married three times, also distinguished himself, not so long ago, by a very costly divorce, the economic daily, evoking the Russian-Ukrainian war, warns that "
this household scene , unlike those he knows well, cannot be settled by billions
”.
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