Macron’s ‘En Marche’ movement launches door-to-door campaign
French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron’s political movement ‘En Marche’ (On the Move) today launched a door-to-door campaign whose aim is to reach out to100,000 people by July and deliver a ‘diagnosis’ after the summer.
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The popular minister, who launched this movement at the beginning of April, posted a video on the movement’s Facebook account in which he said that everyone was convinced about the country facing new challenges that cannot be completely resolved by mainstream political parties.
According to Macron, his movement and the door-to-door approach should help to “build the camp of progress.”
The 38-year-old stressed that the objective of the exercise was to meet the French people, to do a diagnosis of the country by opening a door and presenting yourself in front of the others, he said.
The ‘walkers’ involved in the campaign will submit to the people a questionnaire containing eight questions, like ‘What works in France?’
The ‘En marche’ movement has has teamed up with the start-up Liegey Muller Pons, which introduces itself as ‘the first start-up of electoral strategy in Europe.’
Its founding members had participated individually in the campaign of Francois Hollande for which they had knocked on five million doors.
Earlier this week, Macron had told Les Echos that his movement already had more than 50,000 members.
“12,000 people have also decided to participate in the door-to-door operation,” he claimed.
Just as he did while launching the movement in April, Macron again insisted that he was not obsessed by the 2017 presidential election. He also said that a progressive action plan to transform France will be unveiled between autumn and winter.
With the launch of this the door-to-door movement, Macron has once again attracted Prime Minister Manuel Valls’ ire.
Valls told the daily Le Parisien on Saturday that while it's good to go from door to door, it should be done in in the hours when you are not a minister.
Meanwhile, Macron was trending on Twitter on Saturday after the video in which he is involved in a heated interaction with activists of the trade union CGT over the ongoing labour reform protests, went viral.
While traveling in Lunel, in southern France, Macron was confronted by two activists who accused him of using of 49-3 in the National Assembly.
“You're not going to scare me with your tee shirt. The best is to pay for a suit, that’s work,” Macron said.
The activist in turn replied that working is exactly what he is dreaming for.
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