The essential
- The moment of truth is approaching for the presidential candidates, who are beginning a final week of campaigning marathons, culminating in evening television broadcasts and a big day of meetings on Thursday. The 12 candidates will follow one another on Tuesday evening on France 2 for the show Elysee 2022with equal speaking time, while TF1 invites them both in pairs at the start of the evening throughout the week.
As for the meetings, Jean-Luc Mélenchon revives the computer-generated images of holograms on a stage in Lille on Tuesday, he will be simultaneously in 11 other cities. Thursday alone will concentrate five meetings: those of Valérie Pécresse (LR) in Lyon, Marine Le Pen in Perpignan, Fabien Roussel (PCF) in Lille, Philippe Poutou (NPA) in Toulouse and Yannick Jadot ( EELV) in Nantes. After a month and a half of campaign at least, Emmanuel Macron is working hard on Monday morning with an interview on France Inter, before another Wednesday on RTL. He should also “multiply field trips”, according to a majority official.
Some 30% of French people could abstain on April 10, a record level for a first round of presidential elections under the Vand Republic, underlines an Ipsos-Sopra Steria survey. Abstention is expected to be stronger in households with the lowest incomes, according to this study, while purchasing power is the priority of voters in this campaign.
07:33 – In a meeting, Mélenchon attacks Macron
Jean-Luc Mélenchon castigated Emmanuel Macron, a “liberal” who “brought the private sector into the state” with consulting firms like McKinsey, on Sunday during his meeting on the Place du Capitole in Toulouse. The Insoumis presidential candidate, third in the polls and in pursuit of Marine Le Pen to qualify for the second round, focused this time on Emmanuel Macron who held his big and only campaign meeting in the La Défense Arena on Saturday. “The last time I went to the Arena was to see Pink Floyd there, it was fuller and less hovering,” he joked in the preamble, in front of the 25,000 people present according to LFI .
07:24 – Michel Richard – Valérie Pécresse, the defeat before the hour
He needs a lot of courage to fight to the end when his party already has its head elsewhere. Towards Macron or rather Zemmour?
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07:14 – Anne Hidalgo: “We are indestructible”
The socialist candidate for the Elysée held her last campaign meeting on Sunday. Always combative, she tried to boost the morale of the troops.
Read Michel Revol Anne Hidalgo’s column: “We are indestructible”
07:06 – Robert Ménard, uncompromising with Zemmour
If Marine Le Pen “made concessions to Éric (Zemmour) on (our) disagreements, it would be without me”, warned on Europe1-CNews-The echoes the mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard, support of the RN candidate and very angry with his friend Éric Zemmour. On Radio J, he listed “the red lines” supported by the former columnist: “on Ukraine, on Islam, on women, on Macron assassin (…), on disabled children, on a Ministry of Remigration, on Muslim first names”.
07:01 – François Rebsamen wants to create a new party, “left leg” of the presidential majority
The mayor of Dijon, François Rebsamen, has launched the creation of a new political party from the left, called the Progressive Federation, to influence a future majority if Emmanuel Macron is re-elected. “There is a real risk of victory for the far right. However, many socialists say that they will never vote for Emmanuel Macron, which amounts to saying that they will not block Marine Le Pen”, explains to the Parisian the former socialist minister, joined by former ministers Thierry Repentin and Juliette Méadel.
06:55 – Valérie Pécresse-Nicolas Sarkozy: the break… quiet
While the support of Nicolas Sarkozy is no longer expected, the right, meeting in a meeting this Sunday, still pretends to believe in victory.
Read our analysis Valérie Pécresse-Nicolas Sarkozy: the break… quiet
06:49 – A high abstention rate in the event of a Macron-Le Pen duel?
In the event of a duel in the second round between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, 53% of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s voters would abstain, 30% would vote for the outgoing president, 17% for the far-right candidate, according to an Ipsos study -Sopra Steria for France Inter. The voters of the communist Fabien Roussel would be the most numerous to abstain (59%), 26% would vote for Emmanuel Macron and 15% for Marine Le Pen. The biggest vote transfers in favor of Emmanuel Macron, apart from his own camp, would come from the ecologist Yannick Jadot: his voters would be 35% to abstain, 57% to vote Macron, 8% to vote Le Pen. The biggest reports in favor of Marine Le Pen, apart from her camp, would come from Éric Zemmour: her voters would be 23% to abstain, 10% to vote Macron and 67% to vote Le Pen. As for the voters of the candidate LR Valérie Pécresse, they would be 29% to abstain, 47% to vote Macron, 24% Le Pen.