The essayist wants to give back “freedom, responsibility and autonomy” so that citizens make their own decisions.
A new contender on the starting line. This Tuesday, on France 2, the philosopher Gaspard Koenig, who launched his party last November, officially declared himself a candidate for the presidential election of 2022. After a tour of France last summer, the essayist returned with the conviction that the French live in a “bureaucratic prison“. And therefore wish “give back freedom, responsibility and autonomySo people can make their own decisions.
“What do we do when we have ideas in a democracy? I decided to go through with this process and therefore to introduce myself (…) since this is the moment when new political forces can emerge in France.», Explains the one who pleads for a«simplificationOf the functioning of the country. “I have been in the public debate for ten years and I am tired of talking with plugged ears. What I’ve been offering for a long time, I can’t find it», He adds, to justify his desire to participate in this electoral event.
“Extremely authoritarian attitude”
Gaspard Koenig, who considers himself to be part of the family “of the Center“, Believes that Emmanuel Macron, for whom he voted in 2017,”took an extremely authoritarian attitude“. “He ruled from above, he re-institutionalized the institutions», He reproaches him. According to him, “you have to do the opposite“. “We must advocate freedom from below, give responsibility to municipalities, individualsHe adds.
Moreover, if he stands for the supreme election, he admits that the office of President of the Republic does not “do not dream“. “I’m not a savior, I don’t have the answer to everything, I don’t cure scrofulaHe admits.
But three months before the first round, the business seems difficult for the philosopher, who assures us that his campaign “will be frugal“. “I refuse to get into debt or the party in debt, we will only turn with the donations received», He specifies. Will he manage to obtain the 500 sponsorships of elected officials who will allow him to appear on the starting line? “Hurry up», He admits while declaring himself«confidentAs to the outcome of this quest.