THE PEN. Will the results of the first round of the 2022 presidential election this Sunday, April 10 place Marine Le Pen in the lead at 8 p.m.? The RN candidate dreams of revenge against Emmanuel Macron…
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Launched in 2020, Marine Le Pen’s campaign led it until Sunday April 10, 2022, the day of the first round of the 2022 presidential election. Shaken, weakened by the candidacy of Eric Zemmour, the RN candidate knew find a second wind in the home stretch of the campaign to the point of displaying a dynamic visible in the polls published in recent weeks. Can she again qualify for the second round and even climb to first place in this first round? Marine Le Pen’s result will be scrutinized and extensively commented on from 8 p.m.
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06:01 – A wave of defection more beneficial than expected for Marine Le Pen?
Competition has been fierce on the far right and Eric Zemmour’s candidacy has sometimes harmed Marine Le Pen. The Reconquest party! has at times appeared capable of weakening the National Rally by depriving it of historical collaborators, such as Gilbert Collard, Damien Rieu or Nicolas Bay, and other shadowy supporters. However, these successive defections never allowed Eric Zemmour to win against his rival. And after letting a few days or weeks pass, Marine Le Pen was able to take advantage of these chain abandonments indicating that those who abandoned the RN ship were the most radical who only wanted to talk about immigration and reproached him for being focus on social issues such as purchasing power. A strategy in line with its program to de-demonize the RN which seems to be bearing fruit.
05:27 – Marine Le Pen’s presidential program, a crusade against wind turbines
Marine Le Pen’s aversion to wind turbines is no secret. Throughout the presidential election campaign and since the regional elections of 2021, the National Rally has continued to speak out against infrastructure. Wind power is one of the sources of renewable energy in which the government has invested heavily, but the subject is debated, the aesthetics and impact of wind turbines on the landscape and the production of intermittent energy are strongly criticized. The candidate takes up her arguments on her own and also deplores that it is necessary to “regulate the electricity thus produced and therefore to operate, or even build, gas-fired thermal power stations for this sole purpose”. If elected, she promises to establish “a moratorium on the construction of any new wind turbine, on land or sea, will be introduced from the spring of 2022” and to gradually dismantle all those already installed.
09/04/22 – 20:26 – Marine Le Pen confronted the debate in front of the French
[Fin du direct] The appearance of the far-right candidate on the BFMTV program “Les Français dans les yeux” on March 22, 2022 was an important moment in her campaign. In this program which allows anonymous people to interview political personalities, the location adapts to the candidate. For the representative of the RN, it took place in Hénin-Beaumont, a town located in the former mining basin of Pas-de-Calais, of which she is a deputy. So 19 days from the first round, she chained two hours of questions about her program and her ambitions for the nation. But above all, at the microphone of Bruce Toussaint, she defended a “more mature” project. Recognizing the missed opportunity that the 2017 inter-round debate had been for her, she assured that she had “worked a lot over the past five years” and was ready to “take up the challenge” of facing Emmanuel Macron in the second round. Playing the experience and wisdom card seems to have succeeded for the candidate who has never been so close to the outgoing president in the polls than during the week preceding this first round. Tonight’s results will tell us if the displayed “maturity” bet was the right one.
04/09/22 – 7:18 p.m. – New change for the baccalaureate and “major reform” of vocational high schools
The reforms to the education system also include a section on high schools and the main measure concerns the baccalaureate, already reviewed several times under the Macron five-year term. Without touching the form of the exam, the candidate believes that “it is necessary to consolidate the learning of French and maths, in particular by putting maths back in the common core of the baccalaureate” It is especially the vocational high school that makes the object of several reform projects today Emmanuel Macron judges that “too many sectors have no outlets, for lack of corresponding needs”, an overhaul of the professional sectors is therefore to be expected, as is the possibility of transforming internships paid internships for students.
09/04/22 – 6:06 p.m. – Reaching 85,000 places in prison in six years, an objective of Marine Le Pen’s program
In terms of justice, Marine Le Pen’s project is to restore power to the judicial system but also to make it firmer by ensuring the effectiveness of sentences and to make herself the candidate considers essential the opening of additional prison places and its objective is stated: to increase the number of places to 85,000 in six years. With a larger reception capacity “no more magistrate will be able to take refuge behind the shortage of places to implement a permissive ideology”, assures the candidate for the 2022 presidential election.
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During the presidential campaign and until April 7, opinion polls were published almost daily, measuring voting intentions for Marine Le Pen. The polls are scrutinized to determine the main trends before the election, but they are only a snapshot of voters’ opinion at a given time and should not be interpreted as predictions of the results of the presidential election. During the reserve period, the two days preceding the election, it is forbidden to publish new polls or to give indications on the latest trends. Find below our article published this Friday with the final compilation of the latest polls.
Find the essentials of Marine Le Pen’s program in our dedicated article above on this page. In summary, Marine Le Pen has reviewed her program in relation to 2017, particularly on the European issue where she assures us that she no longer wants to leave the euro while firing red balls at European authorities, preferring a Europe of nations more guarantor of national sovereignties. In the home stretch of the campaign, the RN candidate mainly raised issues of purchasing power, promising to return an average of 200 euros per month to the French via various load reductions. You can find his complete program in PDF here.