Emmanuel Macron is “very confident” in the ability of French people to recover from the crisis

Emmanuel Macron declares himself “very confident” in the ability of the French to “move forward” to get out of recent crises, which he compares to those “of great epidemics” and “great fears” of the end of the Middle East. Age, in a magazine interview Zadig published this Wednesday. “If we have collective energy and a vision, we will move forward. I think that we have the possibility of it “, affirms the president in a long interview of twenty pages devoted to” his vision of France “.

For him, the Covid-19 pandemic “is the metaphor of our time. We relive times with a very medieval background: the great jacqueries, the great epidemics, the great fears… ”“ I would link the period we are living to the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. It is the time of phenomena which forge a people, I would even say of the reinvention of a civilization. It is also a moment of tensions that work the country, between a central state and feudal systems. It is finally a time when the European question arises, without forgetting the relationship between religions. The ability to embrace the future, to project oneself, is therefore decisive for the country’s rebound. This is what makes me very confident, ”he explains in this quarterly which aims to“ tell the story of France ”.

Amiens, the Pyrenees and Marseille

Also citing the crisis of “yellow vests”, Emmanuel Macron sees in the French “a very resistant people”, “extraordinarily tenacious”, but who “ignites at the stroke of anger”. He defends the controversial reform of the ENA, which an ordinance must ratify this Wednesday, because “the disease of France is not bureaucracy or centralism” but “corporatisms” defending “interests that protect the between oneself ”. It is necessary, according to him, to “select differently” for the senior civil service because “when you come from a working class background, and even more when you come from an immigrant background, it takes five to six generations to access it would not be. – what in the middle of the social scale. It’s huge and, frankly, disheartening ”.

Emmanuel Macron also underlines the urgency to respond to the feeling of “dropping out” of a part of the population who expresses “the same concern about deindustrialisation, a feeling of injustice, an impression of democratic betrayal”. Witnessing his attachment to Amiens, his hometown, and to the Pyrenees, the land of his childhood vacations, Emmanuel Macron, often described as “disconnected from the territories” by his opponents, affirms “to also love Marseille infinitely” and his “creativity extraordinary ”. He is also optimistic for the future of Seine-Saint-Denis, where “all that’s missing is the sea to make California” and which represents “a unique space for economic and social transformation”.