Daniel Cohn-Bendit breaks with Emmanuel Macron and calls on the left to unite behind Raphaël Glucksmann | EUROtoday

Daniel Cohn-Bendit swears. It just isn’t “neither upset nor angry”. At the start of December, seated on the restaurant of a small lodge close to rue Daguerre, in Paris, the place he’s accustomed, the previous MEP prefers to speak a few “intellectual disappointment” when he talks about his relationship with Emmanuel Macron. The former chief of Mai-68, who supported him since 2017, introduced as we speak World his official break with the top of state.

He who was subjugated by the “at the same time Macronian”permitting his eyes to transcend the left-right divide “unlivable”now not acknowledges himself within the line of the President of the Republic. “There is no more “at the same time””, he deplores, however a coverage of “old world” which solely rests on one proper leg. “The signifier of Emmanuel Macron’s policy was perhaps a mirage”he notes. “I was seduced,” he admits, specifying: “I’m not the upset mistress, that’s not it, eh! »

The messages from the septuagenarian addressed to the head of state have remained unanswered for a long time. Daniel Cohn-Bendit says he makes fun of this brutal presidential disinterest, even if we feel a touch of bitterness when he describes Mr. Macron as a man who “consume people like fruit. At some point, it’s no longer the season.”

But the wound he describes is extra ideological than emotional. While the National Rally (RN) continues its progress, “Dany the Red” claims to have “fear of what the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and therefore Emmanuel Macron, is producing”referring to the immigration invoice presently being examined within the National Assembly. “ [Gérald Darmanin] made an analysis: France is on the right. And only look for the agreement on the right”he observes, regretting that Mr. Macron doesn’t have the “lucidity” – he doesn’t dare to make use of the phrase braveness – “to tell certain truths” on the migration problem: France and Europe want labor immigration – not simply certified individuals – and we can’t impose quotas on the variety of refugees.

“A certain social incompetence”

“Yes, people are panicked. But what I ask of a president like Emmanuel Macron is to confront [la pression exercée par la droite et l’extrême droite] », he gets annoyed. According to him, approaching the subject of immigration in such a right-wing manner will not appease the country. On the contrary, “the consequences will be terrible”he fears. “Let’s say that the text passes – let’s even say that the harshest version of the text, the one voted on by the Senate, passes – what is the result? In four years of the presidential election, nothing will have changed. And who will win? Marine Le Pen ! “, he storms, nostalgic for the balance promised by the Head of State during his speech in Orléans in 2017 combining ” authority ” And “humanity”.

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