9:15 am: Castex “would like” Macron to be a candidate for re-election
Two days after the Head of State confided “to want” to be a candidate for re-election to readers of Le Parisien, Prime Minister Jean Castex indicates that he too would like this candidacy. “But at the same time, the time is to manage the health crisis, to manage the country,” he says on the set of BFM TV. We are focused. (…) We do it by taking difficult measures ”
9:02 am: “Our gatherings will be subject to pass control” says Castaner
At the microphone of France Info, the boss of the deputies of La République en Marche, Christophe Castaner ensures that “all our gatherings will be subject to pass control” during the electoral campaign. On the question of the FFP2 masks, which will be distributed in particular at the meetings of Valérie Pécresse or Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the former Minister of the Interior prefers to listen to the health authorities rather than the initiatives taken by such and such a candidate ”. “The recommendations are not to impose FFP2 masks except for particularly exposed professions and therefore we will see, if medical doctrine should change, we will adapt. “
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8:58 am: According to Zemmour, France “is a drag” for Macron
“Emmanuel Macron wants to dissolve France in Europe and in Africa, believes Eric Zemmour, interviewed at the microphone of Europe 1. He wants to deconstruct the history of France. For him, France is a burden, he can not wait to get rid of it to blend into much larger groups that fascinate him much more, Europe or Africa. “
8h37: Pécresse is a “clone of Emmanuel Macron” judge Zemmour
The voters of Eric Ciotti during the Congress of Republicans “understood very well that his ideas are mine”, judge Eric Zemmour on Europe 1. “Madame Pécresse does not defend the ideas of Eric Ciotti, she is the candidate of the center . She is a clone of Emmanuel Macron. There are no differences between Macron and Pécresse. It is white beanie and white beanie. “
8:30 am: Zemmour asks for a “signature pool” to sponsor candidates well placed in the polls
After reiterating his difficulties in collecting the 500 sponsorships necessary to run for the presidential election, Eric Zemmour calls on David Lisnard, president of the Association of Mayors of France, to help the contenders well placed in the polls but in difficulty to collect these signatures.
“I suggest that he ask the mayors to create a pool of signatures and give the signatures to all the candidates who are at 5%, 8%, we can see that, imagine the candidate for Reconquest at the microphone of Europe 1. That the names don’t mean anything anymore since it will be decided by all the mayors. And I think that would be a democratic measure, and I’m not just talking for months. “
8:23 am: “We are around 300 promises” of sponsorship, Zemmour indicates
Eric Zemmour returns to the microphone of Europe 1 on his difficulties in collecting the 500 sponsorships of elected officials necessary to stand for the presidential election. “We are about 300 promises,” indicates the candidate of Reconquest. Which is at the same time a lot because we have no elected representatives, because we are a new party. But which is nothing because it takes 500 and everyone tells us that in fact it takes 600 or even 700 to be sure because people retract at the last moment. In truth, there was a perversion of the original law by François Hollande by making public the name of mayors. It is a democratic scandal. “
8:20 am: Zemmour justifies his refusal of the vaccination pass, which “is not used for much”
“One: I learned that we were more and more immune, introduced Eric Zemmour at the microphone of Europe to justify his refusal of the vaccination pass. Two: this Omicron variant is very contagious but the least dangerous and therefore there are no spikes in the intensive care unit. And three: we now know that we are contagious even if we are vaccinated. So the vaccination pass is not used much. “
8:14 am: For Zemmour, Macron’s controversial remarks are a “political coup”
“This is not a slippage”, judge Eric Zemmour at the microphone of Europe about the exit of the president, who wishes to continue “to piss off” the unvaccinated. “Emmanuel Macron read and reread, he knew exactly what he was doing,” continues the candidate for Reconquest. I think it’s a political coup. He cynically exploits the Covid for two reasons. He wants to make the Covid the subject of the presidential election so that we do not talk about his record and that we do not talk about the identity of France. And he sees the polls, that 70% of the French prefer to protect their health than to save freedoms, and therefore he splits, he plays politics. “
7:50 am: Pécresse and Macron in the south-east this Thursday to talk about safety
Valérie Pécresse is traveling this Thursday in Bouches-du-Rhône and Vaucluse to talk about safety, just like Emmanuel Macron, expected in Nice. “If he runs after the candidate of the Republicans on this theme, it is good that there is excitement, concern in his camp”, advances the candidate LR in an interview for La Provence, promising to ” take the Kärcher out of the cellar ”to“ clean up the quarters ”.
“At the same time ‘doesn’t work on security,” she adds. Macron is creating a diversion with his sentences, but when the French open their eyes to his record, they will see a crisis of total authority. “Valérie Pécresse reaffirms it, security” is the first of freedoms “.
7:36 am: “I’m going to bring the Kärcher out of the cellar”, promises Pécresse
Before a trip to Bouches-du-Rhône and Vaucluse this Thursday to talk about safety, Valérie Pécresse promises, in an interview with La Provence, to “bring the Kärcher out of the cellar”, using an expression used in 2005 by Nicolas Sarkozy, still Minister of the Interior. “It is a question of putting order in the street” because “we no longer give an answer to the violence of the new barbarians”, estimates the candidate of the Republicans. “I want to clean up the neighborhoods,” she says.
7:32 am: Macron still remains in the lead in the polls
Emmanuel Macron would come first in the first round of the presidential election ahead of one of the candidates of the trio Valérie Pécresse (LR), Marine Le Pen (RN) and Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!) Who are competing for second place, according to a poll Harris Interactive for Challenges published Wednesday and made before his controversial remarks about his desire to “piss off” the unvaccinated. The outgoing head of state, who says he “wants” to represent himself in an interview on Tuesday evening at Le Parisien, is credited with 24% of the voting intentions in the first round, ahead of Valérie Pécresse, Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour, each collecting 16%.
According to another Ifop-Fiducial survey for LCI and Le Figaro, Emmanuel Macron is also given the lead at 27% (+1.5 point) in the first round, ahead of Valérie Pécresse at 16% (-2) and Marine Le Pen also at 16% (stable), while Eric Zemmour is at 13.5% (+1.5). Same trend in the poll published Tuesday by the Cluster17 institute for the weekly Marianne: with three points gained since the previous study carried out two weeks ago by this new institute, the outgoing president prances at the top of the poll with 23% of the intentions to vote.
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7:31 am: The morning guests
On RFI at 7.20 am : Delphine Batho, spokesperson for Yannick Jadot
On Europe 1 at 8:13 a.m. : Eric Zemmour, candidate “Reconquest” in the election
On LCI at 8:30 am : Fabien Roussel, PCF candidate
On France-Info at 8:30 am : Christophe Castaner, president of the LREM group at the National Assembly
On BFMTV- RMC at 8:30 am : Jean Castex, Prime Minister
What to remember from Wednesday
7:30 am: Welcome to this live dedicated to political news and the campaign for the 2022 presidential election.