10:09 a.m .: Poutou “approaches” 500 sponsorships
The candidate of the New Anti-Capitalist Party has until tomorrow to collect 158 sponsorships and thus cross the threshold of the 500 signatures of elected officials necessary to stand for the presidential election. The list will be updated this afternoon by the Constitutional Council.
“Presidential candidacies: like a duel from a distance, there are only 2 questions left. A false suspense with a Macron who has still not officially declared himself and a real suspense for the NPA candidacy which does not yet have its 500 sponsorships but which is approaching it, ”writes Philippe Poutou not without a touch of irony. on Twitter.
9:35 a.m .: Alexis Corbière responds to Hidalgo, who accuses Mélenchon of transforming “the aggressors into the attacked”
The candidate of the Socialist Party is not tender with Jean-Luc Mélenchon whom she considers complacent with regard to Vladimir Poutine. “I am scandalized that a candidate from the left, an admirer of the Venezuelan dictator who now supports Putin, is making a speech that transforms the aggressors into the attacked,” she wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
“History will remember that you have slandered and lied regularly about the words of the only leftist and ecology candidate, who could be in the 2nd round, retorts Alexis Corbière, rebellious deputy. So you help Macron.. and also the extreme right. »
9:17 am: “Polls are the negation of democracy! “, accuses Dupont-Aignan
Stuck in opinion polls with 2% of voting intentions, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan calls on the French to “stop voting according to the polls”, which are “the negation of democracy”. “If this continues we will no longer have democracy, because they [les Français] can’t take any more of these permanent communication games and that’s why they abstain, ”writes the candidate of Debout la France on Twitter.
9:13 am: Dupont-Aignan at the Agricultural Show this Thursday
The parade of candidates continues at the Agricultural Show. Today it is Nicolas Dupont-Aignan’s turn to go there at 10 a.m., to meet farmers “threatened by free trade agreements (CETA, Mercosur) and the unfair competition that the ‘importing products that do not meet our health and environmental standards,’ he wrote on Twitter.
9 a.m.: For Arthaud, “Zelensky, Poutine, Biden, Macron, Johnson” are all “against the peoples”
For the candidate of Workers’ Struggle, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky are “in rivalry” and are “two representatives of the oligarchy”. “They have one thing in common, Zelensky, Putin, Biden, Macron, Johnson: when it comes to the living conditions of the populations, they have nothing to do with it,” says Nathalie Arthaud. Their common point is to be against the people, against the workers. »
8:52 am: Laurent Jacobelli “understands” that Macron is waiting to be a candidate, “but he was late”
Emmanuel Macron must formalize his candidacy for re-election before Friday 6 p.m. For weeks, the opposition has been urging him to lift the veil on this false suspense, which continues due to the war in Ukraine. “We can understand that he is waiting, but he was late before the Ukrainian crisis by not wanting to play by the same rules as the other candidates thus denounces Laurent Jacobelli, spokesperson for Marine Le Pen, on Public Senate. It will end and so much the better, because he has a record. »
8:35 a.m .: Arthaud castigates the “white dove” that the Western camp would be against Russia
“Of course not”, Nathalie Arthaud does not find the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin legitimate. “But I protest against this kind of propaganda consisting in saying that on one side there is the ‘dictator Putin’ who has become a psychopath and on the other ‘the white dove’, the Western camp, defender of rights , democracy, freedom”, adds on the set of LCI the candidate of Lutte Ouvrière, who “does not work in this gross manipulation”. “There is a war of influence in this region,” she adds.
8:30 a.m.: “We are against any new EU membership”, recalls Laurent Jacobelli (RN)
Attacked by Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the European Union to integrate his country “without delay” into the European Union. “We are a bit in communication, the membership process does not take a week, it takes years, recalls Laurent Jacobelli, spokesperson for Marine Le Pen, on the set of Public Senate. If one day Ukraine is to join the EU, I hope the conflict will be over. We are against any further EU membership. »
7:58 am: Jordan Bardella tackles the choice of Marion Maréchal Le Pen, who will join Zemmour on Sunday
After turning her back on her aunt, Marion Maréchal Le Pen should announce her rallying to Eric Zemmour this Sunday in Toulon. “It’s a bit contradictory because a few months ago, she said that she had said that she would support the best placed, but undoubtedly, the one who is best placed is Marine Le Pen”, underlines Jordan Bardella, acting president of the National Rally, on RTL. “I don’t quite understand his wish to join a candidate who is third or fourth in the polls,” he adds.
7:52 a.m .: Jordan Bardella finds it “appalling” that Zemmour “spends his time attacking” Le Pen
“I find it difficult to understand this strategy of Eric Zemmour which aims to make Marine Le Pen almost exclusively his only opponent”, slips the interim president of the National Rally at the microphone of RTL. “I regret that he does politics without ever addressing people”, tackles Jordan Bardella, who recalls that “the name of Marine Le Pen is a name that has done much more than that of Eric Zemmour in 50 years to defend national and patriotic ideas”.
7:45 am: “Our role is not to sabotage the work of the president”, assures Jordan Bardella
At the microphone of RTL, the acting president of the National Rally reacts to the speech delivered Wednesday evening by Emmanuel Macron on the subject of the war in Ukraine. “With Marine Le Pen, our role is not to sabotage the work of the President of the Republic in this delicate period, he assures. But be careful that sanctioning Russia does not amount to sanctioning oneself. »
7:35 a.m .: Zemmour cancels an interview to “take a break in his campaign”
The Reconquest candidate should have been the guest of Franceinfo this Thursday morning. An appointment planned “for a very long time” according to the channel but that Eric Zemmour would have decided to cancel Wednesday, at the end of the afternoon to take a “break in his campaign”, specifies his team. A campaign that is bogged down due to the war in Ukraine and the pro-Putin positions of the polemicist.
7:03 am: Macron wants to “protect” the French from the consequences of the war in Ukraine
Emmanuel Macron addressed the French on Wednesday evening on the war in Ukraine, assuring them that he would do everything to “protect” them from the consequences of the conflict, acknowledging that this crisis was “hitting” the presidential campaign 39 days before the election.
During his televised address, President Macron warned the French against the consequences of this conflict, referring to the arrival of Ukrainian refugees on the territory or the impact on economic growth and energy prices saying that he would only have ‘a compass, protect you’.
Macron’s candidacy: is it for today or tomorrow?
The war in Ukraine leaves him little time and space to declare himself a candidate. The outgoing president will however have to rub shoulders with the exercise, and before the deadline of this Friday, at 6 p.m. Our article to read here.
7:01 a.m.: Morning guests
- On RTL at 7:40 a.m.: Jordan Bardella, acting president of the RN
- On Public Sénat at 8 a.m.: Laurent Jacobelli, spokesperson for Marine Le Pen’s campaign
- On France info at 8:30 a.m.: Gabriel Attal, government spokesperson
What to remember from Wednesday
- Christiane Taubira ended her campaign for lack of necessary sponsorships.
- The war waged by Russia in Ukraine “comes to impact our democratic life and the electoral campaign”, estimated Emmanuel Macron during his speech.
- The candidates hailed Jean-Pierre Pernaut’s attachment to the land, after the announcement of his death.
- Former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin gave his support for the presidential election to Emmanuel Macron, “the youngest and most experienced” and who, according to him, “has everything in hand to succeed in his second term”. Manuel Valls did the same.
- At the Agricultural Show, Marine Le Pen defended food and energy “sovereignty”.
- Anne Hidalgo wants to generalize tutoring from the second, and alternating training.
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