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Traveling to Mulhouse on Tuesday, where he met caregivers and before a speech in Strasbourg, the president-candidate showed his desire to answer all the “lies” of Marine Le Pen.
The sun beats down on Mulhouse at midday, and Emmanuel Macron’s procession arrives two hours late in front of the Association for Scientific and Technical Information in Rehabilitation (Alister), a continuing education organization where he must meet caregivers. After a quick salute to the local elected officials, the candidate turned around without even going through the door… And ran towards the small crowd that was gathering behind barriers on the other side of the road. It doesn’t matter that the timing is not respected.
Eleven days from the second round, the priority is to show that he is not “hidden in his office”, to recall that he has “never spared his sentence”, that he “makes ground, and not half an hour”. Because “campaigning is not just about going in front of supporters”, specifies the President of the Republic. In the viewfinder, behind each of his words: the one he did not name before the first round and which he now calls “Mrs. Le Pen”. His rival for the second round of the presidential election, the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen.
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