Small quack from the start of the debate: Marine Le Pen started on the music, before recovering.
Was she too impatient? While the music was still ringing, the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen began her introduction to the debate between the two rounds, which, in fact, was inaudible. Warned by Gilles Bouleau, she resumed her speech, without seeming destabilized. “France’s greatest asset is its people,” she repeated. “I know our people well, I have been going to meet them for years (…). For five years, I have seen him worry about a downgrade and doubt. I would like to tell him another choice is possible”, she explained before announcing that she would be “the president of the daily newspaper, (…) of the school, of the knowledge of health, of the republican assimilation and social advancement. I will be the president of harmony, of justice, of national fraternity,” she concluded.
President-candidate Emmanuel Macron first conceded that yes, France had gone through “a (so) difficult period, a pandemic such as we had not experienced for a century, and today the return of war on the European”. “I went through (…) this period trying to make the right decisions”. “We can make our country stronger, (…) improve daily lives,” he said. “Our France will be stronger if it knows how to take up the ecological question and make Europe stronger and that is so important in the moment we live in”, he concluded.