The French Presidential Campaign has started two years ahead of time.
While President Emmanuel Macron pontificates around the world and unsuccessfully tries to meddle into all sorts of international crises, the French Republic is suffering.
French post-colonial power is all but dead: troops have been expelled from no less than eight African nations in the last few years: Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Central African Republic and Gabon.
Unchecked mass migration has wrecked the social fabric, while the economy is stagnant. Farmers suffer under the yoke of ‘Climate change’ fanaticism.
Is it any wonder that viable candidates are starting to position themselves?
We have reported here in TGP how French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau is one such candidate.
Retailleau gave an interview yesterday (23), in which he delivered a ‘stern rebuke’ of Macron’s legacy.
This has been widely understood as a ‘break’ with the President to build his stature as a potential successor in the 2027 election.
Reuters reported:
“Less than two years before the end of Macron’s second term, after which he can’t immediately seek reelection, an increasingly crowded group of potential candidates to succeed the French leader is starting to emerge.
Retailleau, a veteran conservative, has yet to declare his candidacy for 2027 but his comments to the right-wing Valeurs Actuelles magazine underline how likely presidential contenders are now trying to distance themselves from Macron’s bruised political brand and carve out their own electoral niche.”
Macron’s minority government is cracking up. A coalition of centrists and ‘mainstream conservatives’ out of step with the times.
“’Macronism will end with Emmanuel Macron, quite simply because it’s neither a political movement nor an ideology: it essentially relies on one man’, [Retailleau] was quoted as saying.”
The ‘petit Roi’ Macron is seen as ‘too pro-wealth for the left and not tough enough on crime and immigration for the right’.
“A source close to Retailleau, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the minister’s comments were to be expected in a coalition government and that he had no plans to resign. He was set to meet Macron on Thursday for a previously scheduled chat.”
Read more:
Macron SLAMS His Own Cabinet After Report on Muslim Brotherhood’s Influence in France Gets Leaked – Interior Minister Retailleau Seen as Gearing up To Run for President
Read the full article here