Gérald Darmanin and Marine Le Pen: why viewers were baffled by the debate: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

It was a highly anticipated debate. Four years after the fiasco of his face-to-face against Emmanuel Macron during the inter-rounds of the 2017 presidential election, which earned him many mockery and criticism (even from his own camp), Marine Le Pen seemed to have recovered to block to face this time Gerald Darmanin. The patroness of the National Rally thus prepared at length before the debate broadcast on Thursday 11 February 2021 in the program It's your turn to speak, moderated by Léa Salamé and Thomas Sotto. His advisers in particular tried to find out more by making more calls to the France 2… If she herself had admitted having been “too offensive ” with Emmanuel Macron, it seems that the mood has mellowed far too much for this new debate. Because during the evening – focused on the themes of security, immigration, secularism and separatism – viewers were totally disconcerted by the attitude of the two political figures.

We announced a duel, we finally had a duo ”

While many were entitled to expect a heated debate, Internet users were particularly disappointed to find that Marine Le Pen and Gerald Darmanin… very often agreed. A total incomprehension for the tweeters, who are numerous to have reacted (often with humor). “Darmanin says she is more right-wing than Le Pen, Le Pen says she could have written Darmanin's book. We're not there, "" "I could have signed your book, sir. We still have doubts about the Le Pen – Darmanin connivance "," At the République En Marche, we do not debate with the extreme right: we agree with it! We announced a duel, we finally have a duo"," Thomas Sotto "It sounds like you are thinking and saying the same thing". Thank you Captain Obvious ”,“A debate between far-right and far-right. We are among friends what could be more normal ”,“ A debate between two people, okay, it's not super relevant … We would have preferred a person like Sandrine Rousseau ”, "The LREM-RN convergence is the only interest of this 'debate' … Come on, good night",Married at first sight, is it on France 2?"," So cute the debate, they agree on all subjects. In 2022, we will no longer have to talk about a Republican dam if Le Pen is in the second round ”, can we read, among others, on the social network to the blue bird.

An opinion that Jean-Luc Mélenchon fully agrees with. Guest on the set of Balance your post the same evening at the same time (at his request), the leader of La France Insoumise considered his gesture as “an act of protest against the France 2 broadcast, where the editorial staff decides to organize a "debate" between two people who agree, about a law on which both will vote the same thing ". Similar words came from the mouth of Alexis Corbière, invited to react to this face-to-face in You have the floor, the rest : “We announced the big duel, I especially heard the big duo. (…) I think the country expects something other than this convergence of ideas ”, commented the deputy LFI in front of the cameras of France 2, as you can see in our video above.

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