Europe 1 with AFP 8:06 p.m., March 3, 2022, modified at 8:08 p.m., March 3, 2022

Emmanuel Macron announces that he is a candidate for a second term in a letter addressed to the French. 

Emmanuel Macron announces that he is a candidate for a second term in a letter addressed to the French.

"For five years, we have gone through a number of ordeals together. Terrorism, pandemic, return to violence, war in Europe: rarely has France been confronted with such an accumulation of crises. We have faced up with dignity and fraternity" , begins the President of the Republic. 

"I am a candidate to invent with you"

"This is why I seek your confidence for a new mandate as President of the Republic. I am a candidate to invent with you, in the face of the challenges of the century, a singular French and European response. I am a candidate to defend our values ​​that the disruptions of the world threaten. I am a candidate to continue to prepare the future of our children and our grandchildren. To allow us today and tomorrow to decide for ourselves". 

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