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“I am a socialist. » Emmanuel Macron is 36 years old and has just been appointed to Bercy. In front of an audience of start-ups and bosses of large groups, Thursday December 4, 2014, he unfolded a paper where he copied a quote from Jean Jaurès published in The Dispatch in 1887: “All politics of caste and selfishness must disappear. » “I am a socialist and I accept it”then insists the architect of tax credit for companies, these measures which have marked the liberal flip of François Hollande’s five-year time period. Two years later, in August 2016, he was invited to Puy-du-Fou (Vendée), the place Philippe de Villiers praised the success of his theme park. Alongside the herald of the ultra-Catholic proper, the Minister of the Economy confesses this time: “Honesty obliges me to tell you that I am not a socialist. »

Do words matter to Emmanuel Macron? In politics, not necessarily. In any case, he said them all. “Liberal”, “reformist”, “patriot”, “progressive”, “a bit authoritarian side”with a “right-wing ethos”…to the purpose of creating the entire thing a slogan: ” At the same time. »

Emmanuel Macron swore to sweep away the old world but since the dissolution, he has chosen for Matignon Michel Barnier, a figure of the European and conservative right, and the Christian Democrat François Bayrou, three times presidential candidate: both 73 years old . In seven years, the ” At the identical time “ which promised to take the best of both the left and the right has turned into a “everything and its opposite” which is turning the heads of the French today.

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