liveLIVE. Presidential: Le Pen will prepare his debate “in a normal way”

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4:23 p.m. – The atrocities in Ukraine are “a point of detail” for Le Pen, according to Gabriel Attal

Gabriel Attal, government spokesman and supporter of Emmanuel Macron, ruled on Monday that “the atrocities” committed in Ukraine by the Russian army in Ukraine were “a point of detail” for Marine Le Pen, an allusion to statements provocateurs of his father on the Second World War. “The atrocities that we see in Ukraine are a point of detail in history for Marine Le Pen, to use a formula from this party”, he declared during the program. The 4 Truths on France 2. Jean-Marie Le Pen had estimated in 1987 that the gas chambers were a “detail point of the history of the Second World War”, which had been worth to him to be condemned for dispute of crime against the ‘humanity.

4:02 p.m. – Marine Le Pen will prepare her debate “in a completely normal way”

On France Bleu Monday, Marine Le Pen spoke about her debate between two rounds with Emmanuel Macron. A confrontation on TF1 and France 2 that the RN candidate will prepare “in the normal way”, in her office at home. “Of course I am ready. There is not a single presidential candidate who is not preparing for a debate. Finally, if you are told the opposite, you are being lied to. Me, I don’t lie to the French. This is what differentiates me from Emmanuel Macron”, she affirmed, ensuring to prepare this verbal jousting as she prepares “the whole of [ses] broadcasts”. And to add: “I consider that it is also the respect due to the French to take these democratic meetings seriously. »

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3:50 p.m. – There is no “question” of expelling foreigners from HLMs

According to Marine Le Pen, guest on France Bleu on Monday, “there is no question of going to expel hundreds of thousands of foreigners” from HLMs. However, the program of the RN candidate plans to favor the French in the allocation of these low-rent housing, in view of “the national priority”. “The implementation of the national priority for households in which at least one of the parents is French will make it possible to quickly put the 620,000 social housing units occupied by foreigners back on the market, according to INSEE figures for 2017”, can we read in the “family” booklet of his program.

3:38 p.m. – Presidential: the four lessons of abstention

More than a quarter of French people of voting age (26.31%) shunned the ballot box on Sunday April 10, in the first round of the presidential election. This massive abstention was not homogeneous: certain categories of the population abstained more. Categories which, when they vote, do not support Emmanuel Macron. An Ifop poll for TF1 and LCI, carried out on the day of the first round, reveals the profile of voters, but also of abstainers from this election. Age, profession, level of income, place of residence… so many markers of the vote – or abstention – and of the candidate’s choice.

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3:10 p.m. – The “thousand” differences between Marine Le Pen and her father

As the second round approaches, Marine Le Pen spoke on Monday on France Bleu about her differences with her father Jean-Marie Le Pen. According to her words, the candidate of the RN would be “the president of a government movement”, when the founder of the former National Front would have been president “of a protest movement then of opposition”. “There are a thousand differences between him and me. I’m not the same age, we didn’t have the same journey, we didn’t experience the same thing, he’s a man, I’m a woman,” she said, saying that ” its added value” would come from its ability to discuss solutions. “I organized the work of my teams so that we could come to power and implement our ideas. »

2:43 p.m. – Macron’s late conversion to ecology

During the presidential campaign, the IPCC published the reports of the working groups on the impacts of global warming and the actions to be taken to mitigate it. Two alerts on the insufficiency of climate action in the world. This had little impact on the debates in the first round of our presidential election. According to the specialized economist Christian de Perthuis, the announcements of Emmanuel Macron in Marseille come a little late. But they have the merit of existing.

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2:28 p.m. – Le Pen evokes the appointment of Montebourg in his government

On France Bleu Monday, Marine Le Pen raised the possibility of an appointment of Arnaud Montebourg in his government, in the event of victory in the presidential election. “I want a government of national unity. I will look everywhere, regardless of labels and partisan commitments, “said the RN candidate, quoting the former minister of François Hollande, who showed “courage”. “It could even go as far as a profile like Mr. [Arnaud] Montebourg,” she said. Still on France Bleu, she also mentioned the name of MEP Jean-Paul Garraud as Minister of Justice. In his government, “there will be people who will most certainly come from the right and most certainly from the left”.

2:10 p.m. – The “clumsy” sentences of Emmanuel Macron

During an interview recorded on France Culture, Emmanuel Macron admitted having had “very awkward and very often decontextualized sentences”. The president-candidate then attacked Marine Le Pen, whom he accuses of “hiding” from the people. “The real contempt is to protect oneself from the people, it is to never go there [au contact] “, he estimated.

1:47 p.m. – Marine Le Pen disputes accusations of embezzlement

Traveling to Saint-Pierre-en-Auge (Calvados), Marine Le Pen reacted to accusations of embezzlement of European public funds by the Anti-Fraud Office (Olaf). “I’m used to dirty tricks from the European Union,” she said, adding that she “disputes all the charges” against her. And to add: “The French are not fooled”.