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Paris, Friday March 22, 2024
NOTE ON THE VISIT OF EMMANUEL MACRON, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, TO MARSEILLE AND ITS CROWDS.
On Tuesday March 19, I tuned into all the news channels. They gave live broadcasts of the visit to Marseille of the President of the Republic, in support of the Place Net operation.
At one point, I heard myself thinking that the electoral benefit of this sequence would go to the benefit of Marine Le Pen and the National Rally (RN).
Which is surprising since the aim of this televised performance is certainly to outwit the aforementioned.
This note aims to understand this spontaneous feeling.
I am not talking about the public order operation Place Net. It is a complex institutional job and I wish it success.
I am referring to the only political communication part of the President's public performance.
a- the one which addresses itself to each of us and calls us to witness what it involves.
b- that which is broadcast by the media, the only one known to all French people.
We see the President taking crowd baths as he knows how to do with this ease, this determination and this mastery which are his.
A crowd here, a crowd there, sure, but with whom? Exclusively with Arab crowds and their current traveling companions, the Africans.
These people may be French for the most part.
However, the exclusivity of their presence highlights that the ethnic characteristics of these populations serve to distinguish them from other French people and consequently to characterize the latter by the fact that they do not have these characteristics. Their absence is all the more noticeable.
However, the President did not go to Marseille to deal with issues specific to migrants or certain categories of French people from immigration backgrounds.
He goes there to deal with national affairs (drugs, its ravages, its powers, public order, the police, public law) and the future of Marseille, which he wants to be powerful.
In this public discussion of national interest, the French see him calling exclusively a particular population to the exclusion of another. He distinguishes, he chooses, he promotes, he forgets.
It follows that in this sequence, the French see that the President is staging the pre-eminence of populations of Muslim descent or subordination to mobilize the entire French population against drugs and for Marseille.
However, the French already have a dense network of intermediaries between them and the government, these are the elected officials. Their intermediation mobilizes the entire population without distinction.
Through these crowd baths, he keeps out of his sight the populations who have suffered for forty years ethnic-religious terror coming from populations (French or foreign) whose jeers and remonstrations the President accepts.
Spontaneously, the population retained by the President to share their concerns against drugs behaves like a community party.
On the one hand, because she says what she thinks, on the other hand, because she thinks that is what is expected of her.
She imposes on him her debates on public order (against the police, even for thugs) and her community political line (against Israel for Hamas). Finally, these people threaten the President with future conflagration of the “cities” if their political line does not become that of the government.
Everything happens as if the communicators at the Élysée did not see that the guarantee of inclusion with regard to Arab-African populations, urban populations, obtained by the exclusivity of their presence were simultaneously a guarantee of exclusion of populations formerly called French, then European and now white, rejected in the peri-urban, rurality, or the silence in the city, and of which we do not know what constitutes their absence today.
The French will retain the manipulation in action of a certain separation for the benefit of one side and through forgetfulness on the other. .
The ratiocinators will be able to distinguish masses and individuals at will, they will not change the look. The French saw it.
Furthermore, everyone understands that it is not the ruling classes who are excluded from these meetings. They are represented by the Areopagus which accompanies the President.
It is therefore the working classes who are placed as spectators of their erasure.
The President may have satisfied the exoticism of the executives, I doubt it. In any case, he informed the French and particularly the popular categories, those who now vote for the RN or abstain, that he does not deal with national issues on the ground (insecurity, drugs, etc.), or even political ( Gaza), with them and to Pagnol's Marseillais that they are not of his vision of the future.
The RN achieves such good results, without ever being in the majority, not because it fights populations of Muslim descent, the French have shown many times that they do not care.
This is so because he is publicly concerned about the French.
However, precisely in this sequence, the President highlights the pre-eminence of populations of Muslim parentage or subordination as well as the simultaneous forgetting or concealment of French people with no other public parentage than French.
In doing so, he recognizes the Muslim religion (let's call it culture or whatever you want) as a gap between two French populations, one of which is gradually losing this qualification.
On the subject of the European elections, Olivier Dussopt, in charge of the Renaissance campaign for the European elections, told journalists: “the polls are not good.”
How could they be since the Leader of this party, the President of the Republic, suggests that in the eyes of the government the French do not exist or are useless for national or local mobilization?
I don't know the consequences of this misunderstanding. Everyone suspects that there will be some.
Marc SALOMONE
