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The favorites of the first round of the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, compete at a distance this Wednesday in the media at a time when, according to the polls, the gap between the two is shrinking to a trickle. Four days before the election, the outgoing president and his far-right rival must participate in the TF1 8 p.m. 10 minutes to convincewhere they will be interviewed in turn about the first hundred days of their presidency.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who received the support of former left-wing Brazilian presidents Lula (2003-2011) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016), spoke directly to Marine Le Pen voters during his last major campaign rally at the Grand Palais in Lille in front of several thousand people, a meeting broadcast by hologram in 11 other cities.
The candidate of Debout la France, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, who is organizing a meeting on Wednesday evening in Paris, asked the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday to investigate the personal assets of Emmanuel Macron and the “McKinsey affair”, and promises “a big household at the top of the state”. On the opposite side of the political scale, Philippe Poutou (NPA) will be in Bordeaux, before a busy day of meetings on Thursday for the other candidates.
1:55 p.m. – Renaud will vote for Poutou
The singer Renaud confided, on RTL, that he would vote for Philippe Poutou during the first round of the presidential election. “The first round, I choose the most extreme left candidate almost an “anar” (anarchist, editor’s note), Philippe Poutou”, declared the artist, for a long time engaged on the left. In the second round, “I will vote against, not for, against Le Pen,” he added. Finally, Renaud calls on young people to mobilize: “I encourage all young people to go and vote. »
1:25 p.m. – (Nice) pass of arms between Poutou and Hidalgo
Mid-day exchange between Anne Hidalgo and Philippe Poutou. Invited this morning to our colleagues from BFMTV, the socialist candidate declares that she is the “only candidate to come from a working class background” (her father was an electrical worker). The anti-capitalist candidate and former worker at the Ford factory then replies: “Hello, delighted”, to which the mayor of Paris replies again: “Hello, delighted too. Only candidate and you only candidate. »
12:50 p.m. – Presidential: the ultimate return to the sources of Éric Zemmour
The death of a young Jewish man, hit by a tram in Bobigny following an attack, replaces the Reconquest candidate! at the center of the debate.
Read the analysis of Géraldine Woessner Presidential: the ultimate return to the sources of Éric Zemmour
12:36 p.m. – Jean-Luc Mélenchon targets Le Pen voters
In his meeting on Tuesday evening and this Wednesday on social networks, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has continued to attack the candidate of the National Rally. The candidate Insoumis repeats in particular the expression used Tuesday evening to designate those who could change sides: the “angry not fascists”.
In “Le Figaro”, Marine Le Pen assumes a social divide with me: I want to increase the minimum wage, she does not. To the angry but not fascists: think carefully before giving your vote to a candidate so far from your interests.
— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) April 6, 2022
12:18 p.m. – The funny phone message from Éric Zemmour
According to our colleagues from BFMTV, the presidential candidate left a message for many French people, some of whom came forward on social networks. According to the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés de France (Cnil), this practice could be illegal, because “every citizen also has the right to oppose political canvassing by means of call machines, unconditionally. . This possibility as well as its modalities of exercise must be specified from the beginning of the message”, which is not the case here.
Eric Zemmour used call machines for this end of the campaign. Without however respecting the rules of the CNIL.
He had already illegally collected personal data at the end of 2021, to create his email databases managed by the American company NationBuilder. https://t.co/Bgu7KimftC
— Raphael Grably (@GrablyR) April 6, 2022
11:50 a.m. – Pécresse closes the door to a collaboration with Macron
“The poaching campaign [d’élus de la droite par le RN et Reconquête !] finally made pschitt”, welcomed the candidate LR this Wednesday. “Today there is a right of convictions in this country, not a right of small combinations after the election”, and “it is the majority”, her right is “a real right of government, the one that Emmanuel Macron is afraid of”, a right that has “real unity”, “republican, strong on order”, not that of “disorder and bankruptcy” represented, according to her, by Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour. She also denounced the “zigzags” of Emmanuel Macron, while the president hunts on the lands of the left and the right: “The at the same time, always and everywhere, it is immobility.” Could she work with Emmanuel Macron? “No”, she assured. Will she call to vote for him in the event of a Macron-Le Pen second round? ” I call to vote for me”, she replied.
11:27 a.m. – Éric Zemmour “acts his defeat”, reacts Pécresse
Candidate LR considered that by speaking thus, Éric Zemmour “acts his defeat” in the presidential election. “He will be Mr. 8:01 p.m.: he will call to vote Marine Le Pen and will run for the legislative elections under his colors.” “Today, the only possible union of rights is around me”, chained the candidate, questioned about the possibility that she could be the head of such a union, even if she assured that she would be elected president.
11:17 a.m. – Zemmour places himself as the leader of the “union of the rights”
Presidential candidates Valérie Pécresse (LR) and Éric Zemmour (Reconquest!) disputed on Wednesday the ability to achieve a “union of the rights” the day after the ballot for the legislative elections. “I will be a candidate, but I will be in the second round” of the presidential election, assured Éric Zemmour on Tuesday evening, affirming, visibly troubled, that he “would not abandon the people who (him) trusted”, while he was revived on the prospect of a candidacy for the legislative elections. “On April 25 in the morning, I will be either President of the Republic or Leader of the Opposition,” he said on Wednesday morning on France Inter.
10:59 a.m. – Dupont-Aignan asks the PNF to investigate Macron
Sovereign presidential candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan asked the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday to investigate Emmanuel Macron’s personal assets and the “McKinsey affair”. “There is a President of the Republic who should be the subject of an investigation by the Financial Prosecutor’s Office on his personal assets, on his declarations of assets, on the McKinsey affair, and there is nothing, radio silence” , denounced on Public Senate the president of Debout la France, for whom “the French understood that something very serious was happening at the top of the State”. “Where is the financial prosecutor’s office? The financial prosecutor’s office has disappeared from our country,” he criticized, asking him to take up the case of the consulting firms. “I blame Emmanuel Macron on the consulting firms,” added the deputy, for whom “we would be in a normal democracy, the President of the Republic could not represent himself”.
10:40 a.m. – The French “no longer believe in werewolves”, according to Le Pen
The French “no longer believe in werewolves”, said Wednesday the far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, target of attacks by Emmanuel Macron the day before in Brittany. “The French are not children, they no longer believe in werewolves. The government must stop treating them like children (…) and consider them adults,” said the candidate on Europe 1. of the RN, which is progressing in the polls and is given in the second round against the outgoing president. Marine Le Pen also said she was “tired of responding to this lack of argument” on her project, “to these anathemas, to these insults, and the French are tired of hearing them”.
10:08 a.m. – VIDEO. Yannick Jadot’s campaign moves
A few days before the first round of the presidential election, Point reviews the candidates’ campaigns. Today, Thibaut Déléaz, journalist at Point, looks back on the highlights – from the master strokes to the slack – of the environmental candidate.