Presidential 2022: Macron will hold his first meeting on April 2

Un first meeting just over a week before the first round of the presidential election. According to information from several media, including our colleagues from Franceinfo, Emmanuel Macron will hold his first campaign meeting on April 2, in Paris. Due to the geopolitical crisis in Ukraine, the presidential candidate had been forced to cancel his presence at the Marseille rally on March 12.

Until then, alternating his agendas as president and candidate, Emmanuel Macron is going to Pau on Friday, for a campaign trip where he will exchange with residents, in the stronghold of his ally François Bayrou, his team said on Tuesday. This meeting with readers selected by the newspapers Sud-Ouest and La République des Pyrénées will take place at the Palais Beaumont, in the presence of the mayor of Pau and president of the MoDem, a faithful since 2017. It will take place the day after the presentation of the program of the president-candidate, who must reveal it at a press conference Thursday at 3 p.m. in Aubervilliers, in the Paris region.

No debate with the other candidates

Since declaring himself at the beginning of March, Emmanuel Macron, monopolized by his diplomatic efforts linked to the war in Ukraine, has organized only one public meeting as a candidate, by exchanging on March 7 with 250 inhabitants of Poissy (Yvelines) largely won over to his cause. Emmanuel Macron then again favored his role as head of state, welcoming his EU counterparts last Thursday and Friday at a European summit in Versailles, dominated by the Russian invasion.

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It was also as president that he visited Ukrainian refugees on Tuesday in a center in Maine-et-Loire, in order to show French solidarity in welcoming the displaced. Likewise this weekend, he will participate as president in two memorial events, a reception on Saturday at the Elysée to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Evian agreements, followed by a trip to Toulouse for the tenth anniversary of the Toulouse and Montauban. Emmanuel Macron has already declared that he will not accept any debate with his opponents in the first round. He only agreed to participate Monday evening in the series of successive interviews of eight candidates on the set of TF1.

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