MACRON. Emmanuel Macron convinced a majority of viewers on Wednesday evening during the debate against Marine Le Pen, even if some decried his attitude. Three days before the second round of the presidential election, he is continuing his campaign with a trip to Saint-Denis. Live news.
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- Last straight line for Emmanuel Macron. The President of the Republic is continuing his campaign on the ground, this Thursday, April 21, 2022, three days before the second round of the presidential election. The Head of State must go to Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) during the afternoon.
- On Wednesday evening, Emmanuel Macron bowed to the traditional exercise of the debate between the two rounds against Marine Le Pen. For nearly three hours, the two opponents debated, the Elysée tenant not hesitating to point out the flaws, in particular financial, of his opponent’s project. What appears to be the most convincing in the eyes of 59% of viewers according to an Elabe poll.
- However, Emmanuel Macron’s attitude has been decried by his opponents, some having found him “arrogant” and “contemptuous”, castigating in particular his way of holding himself during the debate, the president-candidate being, on several occasions , appeared “slumped” in his chair.
- According to the latest polls, Emmanuel Macron is the winner of the presidential election with a lead of ten points over Marine Le Pen. Will the debate accentuate the gap with its rival?
- Follow Emmanuel Macron’s latest news in this campaign between the two rounds of this 2022 presidential election.
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12:02 – Emmanuel Macron traveling to Saint-Denis this Thursday
In the aftermath of the debate between the two rounds, Emmanuel Macron continues his campaign on the ground. The president-candidate is going this Thursday, April 21, 2022 to Saint-Denis, in Seine-Saint-Denis. The Head of State is expected at the beginning of the afternoon to talk about the housing issue, more specifically “unsanitary housing and urban renewal”, indicated his campaign team. During this trip, the President of the Republic should meet actors from the associative world as well as the mayor of the city, Mathieu Hanotin (PS), who called to vote in his favor in the second round, in a city having credited Jean- Luc Mélenchon with 61.13% of the vote in the first round. Emmanuel Macron, second, had obtained 16.22%.
10:57 – Emmanuel Macron at the Champs-de-Mars on Sunday evening
After the Louvre, the Champs-de-Mars. According to BFM TV, Emmanuel Macron chose to speak from the Champs-de-Mars esplanade in Paris, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. A strong and symbolic image in anticipation, five years after a victory speech in front of the Louvre pyramid.
10:26 – Emmanuel Macron’s attitude criticized by his opponents
If he has, it seems, convinced, Emmanuel Macron has not escaped criticism from the camp of Marine Le Pen. The sometimes slumped position on the chair adopted during the exchanges during the debate did not go unnoticed, coupled with a professorial tone, was not to the taste of the defenders of the RN candidate. “was arrogant, slumped in his chair, which gives the measure of his arrogant, contemptuous attitude. I found him without enthusiasm, without envy. I found that he was running behind Marine Le Pen”, thus rebuked Jordan Bardella on BFMTV/RMC. Remarks by the party’s interim president corroborated by Laurent Jacobelli, one of the spokespersons, who did not hesitate, both on RMC and Public Sénat, to speak of “nonchalance”, “arrogance” or even dishonest”. “When we attack on the form, it is that we have little to say on the merits”, retorted Gabriel Attal on Franceinfo.
09:55 – Satisfaction in the Macron camp after the debate between the two rounds
In the aftermath of the debate between the two rounds, Emmanuel Macron’s supporters are full of praise for their candidate. Former Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe praised, on RTL, “a president with the same energy as five years ago”, when Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, praised on France 2 the “conviction and determination of the Head of State. For his part, Gabriel Attal judged that “the debate made it possible to show that we have a President of the Republic who has a serious, credible, financed project, which responds to the concerns of the French” during his visit to Franceinfo.
09:39 – Emmanuel Macron convincing for 59% of viewers
According to an Elabe poll carried out after the debate between the two rounds, Emmanuel Macron was convincing for 59% of viewers. If he was obviously unanimous in his camp, the outgoing president was also acclaimed by the voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon (61%). On the other hand, on the right, it is more nuanced. The Head of State obtained the support of only 50% of Valérie Pécresse’s voters. On the far right, 21% of Eric Zemmour’s voters said they were convinced by the Head of State’s speech, as well as 15% of those who voted in favor of Marine Le Pen in the first round.
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Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen officially qualified for the second round of the presidential election on Sunday April 10. The outgoing president came out on top in the first round with 27.85% of the vote, ahead of the RN candidate with 23.15%. Emmanuel Macron has thus improved his 2017 score (24.01%), even if abstention reduces this progress. He still won more than a million additional votes (9.7 million against 8.6 million 5 years ago).
Emmanuel Macron, in this campaign between the two rounds, indicated that he wanted to “complete” and “enrich” his program, in particular on ecology. He said he was ready not to push back the retirement age to 65. The Head of State also indicated that he was “not opposed” to the establishment of a “full” proportional system for the legislative elections.