Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron meet this Wednesday evening face to face for the traditional debate between the two rounds of the presidential election, an appointment that the far-right candidate had completely missed in 2017 against that of En Marche! which this time will have a balance sheet to defend. Interview with Arnaud Mercier, professor of information-communication at the Institut français de presse.
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French presidential election: “We are going to have a much more defensive debate than in 2017”
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