Seven months before the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron wants to go back to the security offensive – archyde

In politics, as in war or football, the best defense is often attack. In a political comeback marked by the wars of positions between left and right in view of the presidential election of April 2022, Emmanuel Macron opted for the offensive, projecting the presidential agenda on the sovereign themes of security, justice or of immigration on which he knows he is fallible.

To address them, the Elysée has opted for a trip to Marseille, the second largest city in France, where the Head of State will visit from Wednesday 1^er to Friday September 3. “One of the poorest and most vibrant” who “ to its suburbs in the city ”, explained Emmanuel Macron in an interview with the magazine Zadig, in May. In the Phocaean city, regular scene of settling of scores between drug traffickers, described by an adviser to the Head of State as a “Magnifying mirror that reflects the country”, it will therefore be, in part, a question of security, police and justice.

The opportunity for the President of the Republic to ensure that “The State is there”, according to the Elysee, by announcing additional resources granted to the city court or the hiring of new magistrates. “ Overall the budget of the Ministry of Justice will have increased by 32% in the space of the five-year term. For citizens, that means resolute investigations, faster deadlines. We need it to be felt ”, one indicates to the chancellery, where one seems little worried that the legal troubles of the keeper of the seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, indicted in July for “illegal taking of interests”, does not come to pollute the speech presidential.

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This sovereign news will follow on from that caused by the Afghan crisis. In the heart of summer, Emmanuel Macron did not wait twenty-four hours, speaking publicly on August 16, the day after the capture of Kabul by the Taliban, to discuss the issue of asylum that could to ask, but also that of “The fight against irregular migratory flows”. One way to counter one of the favorite angles of the right and its extremes, even though the head of state had to undergo indecent trials by a part of the left in the face of the humanitarian drama that is playing out in Afghanistan. “There is a part of the political class which says that we are naive and a part which says that we are inhuman. It is therefore that we must be fair ”, replied Emmanuel Macron, August 26, on the sidelines of a trip to Dublin.

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