Arthur de Laborde / Photo credit: Yoan VALAT / POOL / AFP 09:07, May 12, 2023

The day after his announcements for the industry, Emmanuel Macron is in Dunkirk to formalize the arrival of the Taiwanese giant Proligium, which will create a giga-factory of batteries. With several objectives: to show the effectiveness of its reindustrialization strategy, turn the page on pensions and convince the RN electorate, which is well established in the region.

Emmanuel Macron as a great architect of reindustrialization. After his announcements on Thursday to accelerate industrial development and three days before the Choose France summit in Versailles, the president is expected in Dunkirk this Friday. It will formalize the arrival of the Taiwanese giant Prologium and the establishment of its giga-battery factory. Billions of euros of investments, thousands of jobs created for the head of state, it is already a victory.

Turning the page on pensions

Emmanuel Macron wants to illustrate on the ground the effectiveness of his strategy to reindustrialize the country. Against the backdrop of the hope of turning the page on pensions. Dunkirk was not chosen at random. The president's entourage presents the city as the symbol of the industrial reconquest carried out since 2017, with no less than 41 investment projects carried out on site and 16,000 jobs over ten years, while the territory had lost nearly 6,000 in the previous two decades.

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At a time when he comes to highlight the successes of his region, it is all smiles that the president of Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand, should welcome the head of state. This is always what to take for Emmanuel Macron, who seeks to expand his majority in the center and right.

Bulwark of the RN

Dunkirk is also the ideal place to deconstruct Marine Le Pen's speech with concrete data, explains a deputy of the presidential camp, who sees it as an opportunity for Emmanuel Macron to recall that he is the best bulwark against the National Rally, while speaking directly to the workers and unemployed who constitute the basis of his electorate.