President Emmanuel Macron will run well in the presidential election. The Head of State will formalize his candidacy in a letter addressed to the French and which will be published in all the titles of the regional press, according to information from several media that Europe 1 is able to confirm.
Emmanuel Macron will announce his candidacy for the presidential election in a “Letter to the French” which will be put online this Thursday evening, we learned from his campaign team, confirming information from several media that Europe 1 can confirm. The letter will be put online this Thursday evening, before being published in the paper versions on Friday. Mobilized by the war in Ukraine, the head of state will have waited until the last moment to formalize his candidacy for a second term, which the candidates must formalize before Friday 6 p.m.
A gain of points in the polls since the war in Ukraine
At 38 days from the first round, Emmanuel Macron will thus officially become president-candidate and will be able to kick off a campaign disrupted by the conflict and which will be one of the shortest ever carried out by an outgoing president. The invasion of Ukraine, he himself admitted Wednesday evening in a speech on this crisis, “comes to strike our democratic life and the electoral campaign”. But he assured that “this campaign will allow an important democratic debate for the nation” and “will not prevent us from meeting on the essentials”.
This war also has an impact on the polls, which show that it favors the outgoing, as is often the case in times of crisis. Since the start of the invasion of Ukraine eight days ago, the president-candidate has gained several points in the voting intentions, the polls giving him 27-28%, or ten points ahead of his rival. from the far right, Marine Le Pen (RN), who is widening the gap with Valérie Pécresse (LR) and Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!).
Despite this announcement to come, Emmanuel Macron remained focused on the international crisis on Thursday and still spoke for an hour and a half with Vladimir Putin on Thursday morning, far from the campaign trips on the ground that his party had planned before the crisis.