Faced with PS activists Macron undertakes “not easy choice” – The World

Le Monde | 03/20/2015 at 9:08 • Updated 03/20/2015 at 9:16 | By Patrick Roger

One small step for socialism, but a big step for someone who, although not having pocket map of the same name party meeting held , Thursday, March 19, for departmental elections. True, the room was small, but it was full. Two hundred people were displaced in Fresnes (Val-de-Marne), as much to encourage applicants of the PS, in this department – one of the last two – led by the Communist Party, as for listening to headline the day . Emmanuel Macron

Not that commune, whose reputation is based essentially on the penitentiary, had hosted election rally of the PS. As the minister of the economy, it was the first time he beat the platform so. Because neither elected nor socialist candidates lining up to demand his presence? No, he says, just a calendar problem.

So, who managed to clear a space in his busy schedule, how the minister that the bill required the use of 49-3 because they have won the support of its majority would he pass the test of public confrontation? The speaking tour of the candidates has just started that from the bottom of the room, the opponent takes part on the extension of Sunday work. While the room shows his disapproval, he took the microphone, stands up and takes the opportunity to defend without complex his law. “This law, I can proudly explain it to you. Goes to the employees, they will tell you thank you if you tell them the truth “, he concluded to applause from the room. This will be the only hitch

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His speech slice sharply with the usual campaign rhetoric. It explains the tax credit for competitiveness and employment, responsibility pact, “of not easy choices” … As the minutes, the speech gains in intensity, without giving in to ease. He speaks of “reconquest” , “pride” , “real rights” , but it talks about what the government without detours, not what should be done that could be done, should have done …

His audience hangs despite the aridity of the subject. The current flows. And he lets himself be carried away by the stimulation of the scene, to give “comrades” to its audience. This is a “I trust you” he concludes his message, greeted by a standing conquered room, which press to obtain a photographic memory of his visit. The final exam is successful and he obviously took a liking to.