Almost seven years later, Emmanuel Macron will deliver a new major speech at the Sorbonne to announce his major directions for Europe, Thursday April 25, he explained, Thursday April 18. “I will give a bit of an overview of what the country has done and what we are heading towards and especially for the years to come,” replied the Head of State, questioned by a journalist on the subject during a conference press release following the European Council in Brussels.
As for the European elections of June 9, "I will have the opportunity, obviously, as I did five years ago, to get involved in this campaign", "at the appropriate times, in the format and the appropriate framework,” Mr. Macron also said.
On Wednesday, questioned on the sidelines of his trip to Brussels about the European election campaign, the French president targeted, without naming it, the National Rally (RN) whose list led by Jordan Bardella is at the top of the polls. “I think that there are a lot of fears, of worries in the moment that we are experiencing and that these angers always benefit from the most simplistic responses”, expressed the Head of State, during a brief exchange with the press alongside the head of his camp's European list, Valérie Hayer. “There is today a kind of hypocrisy in the debate and I hope that by entering into it in the coming weeks, this hypocrisy will be lifted,” added Mr. Macron, implicitly targeting the RN.
It was the first public appearance of the head of state and Ms. Hayer since the start of the campaign, before they attended a meeting of the Renew Europe group together, while the candidate from the presidential camp is struggling for the moment to leave its mark on the campaign. “We are getting organized, we have the right candidate (…). Above all, we have good ideas, those that have been implemented in Europe in recent years,” said Mr. Macron, when questioned by a journalist.
The sequence, posted by the Elysée on “The use of the means of the Elysée to campaign for the list supported by the President of the Republic is contrary to the rules of electoral financing,” declared the coordinator of LFI, Manuel Bompard, on X. The message in question of the Elysée was, moreover, no longer accessible thereafter.
