The essential
- By announcing that he wants a Prime Minister directly responsible for “Ecological planning”, a concept dear to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the candidate Macron has reached out to left-wing voters and young people, key to the second round. Objective: “to make France the first great nation to get out of gas, oil and coal”.
- A week before the second round of the presidential election, nothing is played between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, in an electric campaign where everyone is trying to unite beyond their camp. The RN candidate is resting this Easter Sunday, without an appointment and with only one media recorded the day before: the show Sunday in politics on France 3.
- In this undecided duel at loggerheads, Emmanuel Macron has a slight advantage over his far-right rival. The president-candidate would win in the second round in a range of 53 to 55.5% against 44.5 to 47% for Marine Le Pen, a slight increase but within the margin of error and, therefore, not safe from a misstep or a strong mobilization of the anti-Macron electorate.
07:37 – The RN, a “danger” for workers, according to the CFDT and the CGT
Laurent Berger and Philippe Martinez, general secretaries of the CFDT and the CGT respectively, call for “not to entrust the keys to democracy” to Marine Le Pen, in a joint text published in the Sunday Journal, which does not mention the name of Emmanuel Macron. “Never has the threat of seeing the far right at the Élysée Palace been so strong”, which “forces us to speak out today to avoid this catastrophic scenario”, write the leaders of the two largest trade union federations. , who want to “warn about the danger represented by Marine Le Pen and her party”, the National Rally. According to Laurent Berger and Philippe Martinez, “the National Rally has not changed”, and “like the National Front in its time, it is deeply rooted in the history of the French extreme right, racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and sexist”.
07:18 – Julien Dray: his plan to wake up the PS and the left
The former socialist deputy announces the creation of a movement. The ex-black baron sets up on his own to bring out ideas and a new generation. Julien Dray, who inspired the character of the series broadcast on Canal+, wants to put an end to this role of somewhat hidden adviser, evening visitor to the Presidents of the Republic, to those who aspire to become one or have become one (pell- mixes, François Hollande, Emmanuel Macron, re-François Hollande). The latest of his political “punches” has depressed him, so to speak. At the request of Julie Gayet, at the end of last year, he helped François Hollande to become a candidate to push Anne Hidalgo out of the game. But, despite the hesitations of the former head of state, Dray slams the door.
Find the interview of the “Point” with Julien Dray, by Michel Revol: Julien Dray: his plan to wake up the PS and the left
06:52 – A last meeting of the RN in Arras
Monday morning, Marine Le Pen should make a trip before plunging again into the preparations for Wednesday’s debate. The RN candidate will hold her last big meeting in Arras next Thursday, in Pas-de-Calais. Since the first round, Ms. Le Pen’s strategy has aimed to establish her credibility and continue to smooth her image, while Le Pen’s name, associated with the far right, has resonated in France for decades.