Marine Tondelier summoned to an emergency meeting at the Élysée
The candidate of the Ecologists had to modify her personal agenda due to an unprecedented summons from President Emmanuel Macron.
Quick Look
- Marine Tondelier, candidate of the Ecologists, postponed her return to the maternity ward to attend an emergency meeting at the Élysée.
- Emmanuel Macron summoned party leaders to discuss the international situation and its consequences for France.
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Why It Matters
President Emmanuel Macron summoned party leaders for a meeting on the international situation. This meeting format is described as unprecedented by the participants.
“We have a schedule that is a little upset,” Marine Tondelier confided this Thursday. “It was to be my last trip,” explains the Ecologist candidate, seven days before the end of her pregnancy. Before specifying: “I was supposed to return, seven days before my due date, so as not to be away from the maternity ward any longer, but we have just been summoned for an emergency meeting at the Élysée tomorrow at 10:30 a.m..”
Indeed, Emmanuel Macron invited the leaders of the parties represented in Parliament, or their presidential candidate, for a meeting on Friday on the “rapid deterioration” of the international situation and its “consequences in France on security and energy”.
“The international situation is quite worrying”
“It’s very rare that we are summoned like that overnight, it’s even unprecedented. This meeting means that the international situation is quite worrying so I would stay one more night,” analyzes Marine Tondelier to explain her decision. The meeting around the Head of State will also bring together Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, as well as military and intelligence officials.
“Faced with the rapid deterioration in recent days of the international situation, the President of the Republic (Emmanuel Macron) invited in a Saint-Denis format”, named after previous meetings of this type, “the party leaders represented in Parliament, to a meeting on the conflicts in the Middle East and in Ukraine and their consequences in France on security and energy”, indicated the presidency.
What to Watch
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Meeting of party leaders at the Élysée on Friday at 10:30 a.m.
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Open Questions
- What concrete measures will be announced after the meeting?
- What is the exact nature of the threats to energy?
