“France facing war”: the assessment, candidate by candidate, of the non-presidential debate on TF1

The majority of the contenders for the Elysée spoke in the political program of TF1 this Monday evening. Assessment, candidate by candidate.

Monday evening on TF1, eight of the twelve candidates running for the first round of the presidential election took part in the program France in the face of war – Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Jean Lassalle, Nathalie Arthaud and Phillipe Poutou were not invited. In addition to Emmanuel Macron, who had refused any form of direct confrontation with his competitors, Marine Le Pen, Valérie Pécresse, Anne Hidalgo, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot, Fabien Roussel and Eric Zemmour spoke in turn, in a determined order. by lottery. First for a “profession of faith”, then during an interview with Gilles Bouleau and Anne-Claire Coudray and finally for a word of conclusion. If the format featured candidates speaking one after the other without any interaction between them, the whole thing was (a little) less soporific than we might have feared. But in substance as in form, the evening gave rise to no surprises. Review of the different services.

Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen had a simple message for viewers: “My obsession is the protection of the French”, repeated the far-right candidate several times. A way for her to articulate the two pillars of her program that she has not stopped hammering since her entry into the campaign, in September, and which she summarizes with the formula: “Give the French back their country and their money.” “By protecting you from anarchic and massive immigration and the insecurity that…