Emmanuel Macron was in Jarnac on Friday morning to pay tribute, silent and without speech, to former President François Mitterrand, 25 years after his death.
On the side of the Socialists, we fear an attempt at political recovery.
25 years after his death, Emmanuel Macron greeted the memory of François Mitterrand on Friday morning.
The President of the Republic went to the cemetery of Jarnac, in Charente, where the former head of state is buried.
He paid him a silent tribute.
Emmanuel Macron did not indeed deliver a speech.
"The legacy of President François Mitterrand is still alive. His two seven-year terms continue to irrigate our collective history," we can however read on the President's Twitter account.
25 years after his death, the legacy of President François Mitterrand is still alive.
Its two seven-year terms continue to irrigate our collective history.
- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) January 8, 2021
But the Elysée carefully avoids including Emmanuel Macron in this heritage.
"He is only the custodian of a common bequest," decrypts one of his relatives.
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About thirty personalities seen
The family and political heirs François Mitterrand were also present: his son Gilbert, but not his daughter Mazarine, wearing accustomed to his commemorations.
François Hollande and Ségolène Royal also gathered at the grave of the former socialist.
In all, around thirty personalities were seen.
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The Socialists take a dim view of an attempt to recover the figure of François Mitterrand by Emmanuel Macron, especially as the commemorations will be numerous in 2021. The president could speak on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the election of its predecessor in May, ditto for the anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty, and the Socialists have little taste for these messages.
Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the PS, thus explained that he saw no point in common between the two men.