MACRON-LE PEN DEBATE. Day of debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. The two candidates for the presidential election will face each other this Wednesday evening for the traditional debate between the two rounds. A pivotal moment in the campaign? Follow all the preparations live.
The essential
- It’s time for the big confrontation between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. The two candidates face each other this Wednesday, April 20, 2022 during the debate between the two rounds of the presidential election. The appointment is set for 9 p.m.
- Five years after a first confrontation which had turned easily in favor of Emmanuel Macron, this return match presents itself in a different context, Marine Le Pen ensuring that she has worked better on this debate, when the President of the Republic arrives on the set with the weight of the results of his five-year term.
- In addition, the polls give a closer result than in 2017 between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. Could the debate tip the balance one way or the other? Find out what the latest surveys say in our dedicated article.
- Statements, preparations, behind the scenes… Before the start of this unique presidential election debate, discover all the news related to this unmissable event.
Live
09:29 – What does the last poll say before the inter-round debate?
A new poll on voting intentions in the second round of the presidential election was published this Wednesday in Le Monde. Produced by Ipsos-Sopra Steria, it credits Emmanuel Macron with 56% of the vote, ahead of Marine Le Pen (44%). Over 7,000 people were interviewed. Find all the polls carried out on the second round in our dedicated article.
09:20 – Marine Le Peut wants to prove “that we can entrust her with the house of France in confidence”
If in 2017 Marine Le Pen had been very offensive towards Emmanuel Macron, “the goal, this time, is not to physically collapse Emmanuel Macron. We must not try to crush him”, explains a close friend of the candidate for Figaro. The deputy of Pas-de-Calais changed her tune in view of the confrontations of this Wednesday evening: “we must show that both have a clear and coherent vision. That Marine is solid, masters his files and that we can entrust him with the house of France in confidence.”
09:12 – Marine Le Pen will speak first during the debate
It is Marine Le Pen who will speak first during the debate between the two rounds, Wednesday April 20. So decided the draw made by the organizers, as in 2017.
08:52 – Feverishness in Emmanuel Macron’s camp before the debate?
The context of this debate between the two rounds is not the same as in 2017. So, in the entourage of Emmanuel Macron, there is no question of declaring victory too quickly. A semblance of feverishness even seems to hover in the entourage of the head of state. “We are not far from the margin of error, so nothing is decided one way or the other. There is everything to gain by having a successful debate, but also everything to lose in the opposite case “, estimates a support of Emmanuel Macron at the Parisianeven evoking a “real danger.”
08:39 – What will be the topics discussed during the debate between Macron and Le Pen?
During this debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, eight different themes will be discussed. In order: purchasing power, foreign policy, the environment, the social model, “competitive France”, education, security, immigration.
08:30 – “No stress but a form of apprehension” before the debate on the RN side
Still on France 2, Jordan Bardella spoke of Marine Le Pen’s state of mind before the debate with Emmanuel Macron: “There is no stress but there is a form of apprehension, because we knows that many French people will decide on this debate and that it will not be the same debate as five years ago.
08:28 – “The moment of a lifetime” for the RN
Guest of France 2 this Wednesday morning, Jordan Bardella referred to this debate between two rounds as “the moment of a lifetime.” The acting president of the National Rally assures that Marine Le Pen has been preparing “for months” for this confrontation. “We have been working hard for five years,” he adds, judging that this meeting with Emmanuel Macron “will be the confrontation of two projects.”
08:24 – Debate time has arrived for Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen
After weeks of campaigning and a particularly active between-two-rounds, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will meet again this Wednesday evening for the between-two-rounds debate of the 2022 presidential election. As in 2017, the Head of State and the candidate of the National Rally will present their project to the French and try to convince a majority of voters to hope to come to power. Start of the confrontation at 9 p.m.
04/19/22 – 11:04 p.m. – First images of the setting of the debate between the two towers
Guillaume Daret, journalist for France 2 (which co-broadcasts the debate with TF1), unveiled the first images of the set which will host Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, Wednesday April 20, 2022.
04/19/22 – 10:03 p.m. – Journalists want “the most enlightening debate possible”
Co-presenter of the debate between the two rounds with Léa Salamé, Gilles Bouleau indicated, on LCI, “to work on what this debate could be, so that it is as enlightening as possible.” While the debate will begin on the theme of purchasing power, the presenter of 20 hours of TF1 explained that “for the moment, we have not divided anything (subjects with Léa Salamé, editor’s note), because We don’t know exactly what’s going to happen. We add up our strengths, we build a guide: a logical sequence of themes. And we feed each of the themes with questions and sub-questions. Like a schoolboy doing an essay. It’s quite simple. Afterwards, what is very complicated is to determine the logical order. We don’t work for the candidates, we work for the French.”
Learn more
The debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will take place this Wednesday, April 20, 2022, from 9 p.m. As in every election since 2007, the confrontation is therefore organized four days before the return to the polls of the French, that is to say during the second and final week of the campaign before the final vote.
While the announced schedule is therefore similar to previous years, there will be fewer broadcasters for the debate between the two rounds in 2022. TF1 and France 2, organizers of this traditional democratic meeting since 1988, will broadcast live the opposition between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, just like LCI and Franceinfo, two satellite channels of each group. BFM TV, CNews or even LCP will ultimately also broadcast the confrontation.
If in 2017, the question of the result in the second round seemed heard as soon as the final poster was announced, the situation is not the same in 2022. First, in view of the polls which give a tight score between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, this debate between the two rounds is of decisive importance and could well tip the scales. The reserve of voices being clearly on the left in the electorate of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, everyone will get down to trying to dredge this breeding ground through proposals going in their direction. Some LFI ballots should turn into an LREM or RN vote, where, five years ago, an uncompromising “republican front” had been established. But as the little music of “Everything but Macron” begins to be heard, Marine Le Pen could well try to rush into the breach.
Because it has a real angle of attack that could seduce, unlike 2017: the balance sheet of Emmanuel Macron. The Head of State no longer has the youthfulness that characterized his candidacy five years ago. It now bears the weight of a grueling five-year term, marked by many various crises. An all the more important opportunity for Marine Le Pen, the president-candidate having refused any debate before the 1er tower of thepresidential election. But for his part, as he is already doing, Emmanuel Macron should not fail to scratch his opponent on his positions during the Covid-19 crisis in particular, or on his discretion as to the invasion of the Russia in Ukraine.
Who will present the debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen?
Like TF1 and France 2 lead the operations for the debate, the latter is presented by a journalist from each channel, a man and a woman. In the wake of the announcement of the date of the debate, the two chains specified that it was Gilles Bouleau, presenter of the JT of 20 hours of TF1and Léa Salamé, presenter in particular of the program “Elysée 2022” on France 2, who will moderate the debate. A time evoked, Anne-Sophie Lapix, presenter of the 20 hours of France 2was challenged by the Macron and Le Pen camps.
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