The essential
- Five days before the first round, Jean-Luc Mélenchon holds the last major meeting of his presidential campaign in Lille on Tuesday, multiplying in eleven other cities thanks to holograms. Third in the polls, the Insoumis candidate believes that he could climb to the second round instead of the outgoing president.
Emmanuel Macron is back on the road with a planned trip to Finistère. The president-candidate will speak on the themes of Europe and the relationship between the State and the regions, at the end of a five-year term marked by tensions between the executive and the communities.
The political show Elysee 2022, at 9 pm on France 2, will have to do without Emmanuel Macron. The latter, who mentioned “agenda problems”, was expected with five other candidates (Anne Hidalgo, Yannick Jadot, Valérie Pécresse, Éric Zemmour and Philippe Poutou). In a press release, the Society of Journalists of France 2 criticized him for “refusing the invitations” of the channel.
1:23pm – Pécresse calls on Macron to a “democratic leap”
While Emmanuel Macron announced his non-participation in Elysee 2022 (France 2), Valérie Pécresse denounced a “scandalous” choice. “I ask the President of the Republic for a democratic leap”, called the LR candidate on Tuesday on BFMTV. The outgoing president is the only one to have made this decision.
1:00 p.m – “Élysée 2022”: the outcry over the absence of Emmanuel Macron on France 2
The presidential candidate, present on France Inter Monday and TF1 Wednesday, refused the invitation from France 2 for his broadcast before the first round.
Read the article by Mathilde Siraud and Olivier Ubertalli “Élysée 2022”: the outcry over the absence of Emmanuel Macron on France 2
12:40 p.m – Pécresse denounces the absence of Macron in “Élysée 2022”
The absence of Emmanuel Macron on the political program Elysee 2022 on France 2 for “agenda problems”, in which the PS candidate Anne Hidalgo, the ecologist Yannick Jadot, the far-right polemicist Éric Zemmour, the NPA Philippe Poutou and the LR Valérie Pécresse will participate, which was strongly criticized by the latter, who denounces a “scandalous” choice to BFMTV. “Not coming to be questioned by public service journalists seems to me an absolutely unacceptable evasion,” she laments.
12:22pm – The Jérémy Cohen affair at the heart of the presidential campaign
The attention of the candidates has been since Monday afternoon on the case of a young man of the Jewish faith hit by a tram in mid-February in Bobigny following violence, put forward by the far right. Its impact on the campaign remains to be measured, but several candidates have demanded full light on the circumstances of this affair which, a few days before the first round, went up to the Élysée. Éric Zemmour has multiplied the tweets on the subject and is in contact with the family of the young man.
“Did he die because he was Jewish?” hey wondered Marine Le Pen (RN) spoke on Tuesday on France Inter of a “criminal act” which would have been “hidden” in an accident. The far-left candidate Nathalie Arthaud (Lutte Ouvrière) denounced “an instrumentalization made by Éric Zemmour of this drama” to put “all the violence of society on the back of immigration”. At his request, Emmanuel Macron’s cabinet spoke to the mother and then the father of the victim, Jérémy Cohen, on the phone to “shed all the light on this affair” which he intends to “follow closely”, according to the Élysée. .
11:58 am – Mélenchon “rediscovers that the left exists”, mocks Hidalgo
Anne Hidalgo also denounced this Tuesday the argument of the “useful vote” put forward by Jean-Luc Mélenchon. According to her, the Insubordinate presidential candidate “rediscovers that the left exists” when he had five years to “bring it together” and “he did not do it”. The socialist candidate for the Élysée, who is stagnating around 2% in the polls, repeated that if Emmanuel Macron was “no longer an option for people on the left”, vote for the LFI candidate, who reached around 15% voting intentions, was ie “a dead end”. Jean-Luc Mélenchon “had five years to rally the left if he wanted to, he didn’t. Besides, it’s been a few years since he no longer calls himself left, but people, and, there, he rediscovers that the left, it exists”, she mocked, while the Rebellious candidate is counting on an “effective vote” on the left to climb to the second round.
11:47 am – Philippe Poutou rejects the “blackmail of the useful vote”
On his Twitter account, the NPA presidential candidate affirms his candidacy when some voices on the left would like a postponement of his votes for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “useful vote” to qualify the left in the second round. “Just to clarify things, he writes, in the face of the blackmail exercised by the fierce defenders of the “useful” vote, we call for the NPA to be voted, usefully anti-capitalist, thus preparing a united mobilization in the street against the fascist danger to defend our lives and the planet.”
Just to clarify things: in the face of the blackmail exerted by the fierce defenders of the “useful” vote, we call for the NPA to be voted, usefully anti-capitalist, thus preparing a united mobilization in the street against the fascist danger, to defend our lives and the planet. .
— Philippe Poutou (@PhilippePoutou) April 5, 2022
11:35 am – France, a “soft dictatorship”, according to Lassalle
Jean Lassalle, who wants to be the spokesperson for French rurality, repeated elsewhere in a meeting in Toulouse that France was a “soft dictatorship”. “A financial dictatorship (…), a system where if you get out of the way, we’re not going to hurt you, we’re going to leave you on your own and wait for you to dry out.”
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11:07 am – Le Pen family: 40 years of betrayal
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10:39 am – For Mélenchon, the Macron-Le Pen duel will not take place
The scenario of a second round of the presidential election between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen anticipated by the polls “will not take place”, assured Tuesday the LFI candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, considering that he could climb there instead of the outgoing president . “That won’t happen, Macron-Le Pen,” he said on Sud Radio when asked about his voting instructions in such a case. “I think I have a very serious probability of getting there and that Mr. Macron would do well to ask himself if he is really certain that he will be there. Look at the curves,” he said. added. The LFI candidate has benefited since mid-March from a dynamic in the voting intentions which allows him to settle in the third place in the polls. It is at 15.5% in an Ifop Fiducial poll published on Monday, behind Emmanuel Macron (27.5%) and Marine Le Pen (22%), who is also progressing.
10:21 am – Marine Le Pen clarifies her remarks on an “agreement” with Russia
Marine Le Pen, RN presidential candidate, on Tuesday amended her remarks on Vladimir Putin and on his “agreement” project with Russia, the war in Ukraine preventing at this stage, according to her, “cooperation in the fight against Islamic fundamentalism”. The RN candidate had estimated Thursday on France 2 that once the war was over, Vladimir Putin could “of course” become an ally of France again, arguing that “Russia was not going to move”. “In my mind, it’s Russia I was talking about” and not the Russian president, said Tuesday on France Inter Marine Le Pen, who had been received in 2017 by Vladimir Putin and whose party continues to repay a loan of approximately 9 million euros to a Russian creditor.
10:11 am – Anne Hidalgo intends to establish a “housing shield”
Invited in the morning of France Info, the socialist presidential candidate intends to set up a “housing shield” so that “French women and men do not spend more than a third of their income on housing”. She also explains that she wants to build “150,000 social housing units per year”.