MACRON. The outgoing president is now engaged in an intense second-round campaign, in which he targets several points in Marine Le Pen’s program. Follow live the latest news on Emmanuel Macron.
The essential
- Emmanuel Macron is at the top of voting intentions, according to the results of the latest polls, but the 2022 presidential election promises to be very tight on Sunday April 24.
- The outgoing president is sparing no effort to target the “danger” of Marine Le Pen’s program. Emmanuel Macron notably castigated his economic proposals and his desire to ban the wearing of the veil in the street.
- Yesterday, on TF1 television news, François Hollande called for voting for Emmanuel Macron and not abstaining.
- Emmanuel Macron will give a large outdoor meeting in Marseille, at the Pharo, this Saturday, April 16.
- Follow Emmanuel Macron’s news live between the two rounds of this 2022 presidential election.
Live
08:25 – Emmanuel Macron in a few minutes on France Info
The Head of State is this morning, from 8:30 a.m., on the set of Franceinfo. He should answer Marc Fauvel’s questions for more than an hour. Find on this thread the main statements of Emmanuel Macron, who should develop several points of his program and discuss the situation in Ukraine, at a time when the war is experiencing a dangerous escalation.
04/14/22 – 11:49 p.m. – Bertrand Delanoë will get involved in Emmanuel Macron’s second round campaign
According to information from the Sunday newspaper, Bertrand Delanoë, former PS mayor of Paris and supporter of Emmanuel Macron, should get involved in the outgoing president’s campaign. thus, we could find him this Friday towing for Emmanuel Macron, in the presence of Gabriel Attal, government spokesperson.
04/14/22 – 10:47 p.m. – Marine Le Pen believes that “another five-year term of Emmanuel Macron is a risk for the country”
To close her meeting, Marine Le Pen criticized the appearances in the media of certain politicians and in particular that of the Minister of the Interior who said that “with Marine Le Pen, the poor will perhaps die”. According to the candidate of the National Rally, “we have been swimming for three days in the big nonsense, in a totally childish paranoia”. In addition, Marine Le Pen believes that “one more five-year term of Emmanuel Macron is a risk for the country”.
04/14/22 – 9:59 p.m. – For Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen’s program “is the only project that assumes to break all frames”
This Thursday, April 14, Emmanuel Macron was traveling to Le Havre. The outgoing president assured that Marine Le Pen was certainly not the ecology candidate: “Very sincerely, who is an ecologist and can vote for Marine Le Pen? You have to introduce him to me. Because it is the only project who assumes to break all the frameworks and not to respect the ecological commitments of France.”
04/14/22 – 9:13 p.m. – Christine Lagarde denies a Matignon nomination if Emmanuel Macron wins
“I’m losing my voice,” replied Christine Lagarde when asked about this rumor at the press conference following the meeting of the Governing Council of the ECB. She added that she was “not in the habit of giving up along the way” as her term at the ECB is due to end in 2027.
04/14/22 – 8:33 p.m. – François Hollande will vote for Emmanuel Macron in the second round
For the second round of the presidential election, François Hollande has chosen. He decided to call for Emmanuel Macron to vote: “It’s the Macron vote that allows Marine Le Pen not to win”, he explained on the set of the TF1 8 p.m. television news.
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The Macron – Le Pen duel for the second round of the 2022 presidential election has already been the subject of numerous polls during the campaign. Each time, Emmanuel Macron will have been given the winner of the election, but with a gap that narrowed considerably in the final days before the ballot. As a reminder, during the last presidential election, Marine Le Pen was largely beaten in the second round with 33.90% of the vote against 66.10% for Emmanuel Macron.
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.