This is the first time that the current head of State and his predecessor meet in head-to-head since the last election. “The tone was courteous, honest, and a republican”, according to the entourage.
the Big reunion between Emmanuel Macron and Hollande. For their first head-to-head for 2017, François Hollande has asked the current head of State, “to make the emergency economic and social” its “priority” for the after-coronavirus, Friday, at their first lunch in head-to-head since the presidential election of 2017, said the entourage of the former president of the Republic.
“at the beginning of the health crisis, François Hollande is concerned about the economic and social crisis to come. His concern is now even more important in the face of the degradation of the situation in the coming months”, according to this source. The latter spoke of “the particular case of the company BorgWarner, which was announced yesterday [Thursday] the closure pure and simple of the site of Eyrein in Corrèze, resulting in the cancellation of nearly 400 jobs.”
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The predecessor of Emmanuel Macron has “urged the president on the need to make urgent economic and social the first priority of the public authorities, with an industrialization of the most fragile territories, a raise before the summer consumption with checks targeted and the launch of a plan for the renovation of the housing”.
“Your courteous, frank, and republican”
“The situation calls for strong decisions on the ecological level”, but “nothing should be undertaken which could be divided, in a period where our country was first in need of appeasement”, adds the same source, in reference to “the potential referendum and the report of the regional mentioned regularly in the press.”
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It was the first time that the current head of State and his predecessor, whose relations have been strained since 2017, met head-to-head. “The tone was courteous, honest, and a republican”, according to the entourage.
François Hollande had already visited two times at the Elysée palace since the election of Emmanuel Macron, for the first time in September 2017, after Paris was awarded the Olympic Games of 2024 and another time on the occasion of a luncheon, a tribute to Jacques Chirac, after his death, in September 2019.
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