Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour tied in a poll… A first since the start of the electoral campaign for the next presidential election in France. For the first time, in fact, the voting intention curves of Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour have joined. According to an Ipsos survey for The Parisian Sunday and radio France Info, the candidate of the National Rally and the candidate of Reconquest! would both collect 14% of the vote in the first round, both being preceded by the candidate of the Les Républicains party Valérie Pécresse (16.5% of the voting intentions) and the not yet candidate of La République en Marche, outgoing President Emmanuel Macron, supported by the centrists, credited him with 24% of said intentions, down 1.5 points.
By dropping 3 points in one month, Marine Le Pen seems weakened » because, during the same period, Éric Zemmour gained 2 points, it is « a turning point in the presidential campaign », launches « in One » The Parisian Sunday.
It should be noted, however, that in an Ifop survey for The Sunday newspaper (and carried out over a more recent and shorter period than for the previous poll), the voting intentions in the first round are of another barrel. Marine Le Pen being credited with 17% there, against 16% to Valérie Pécresse and 14% to Éric Zemmour, Emmanuel Macron being credited with 25% of the voting intentions.
France in the sands
In Africa, for the magazine press, it was above all the expulsion from Bamako of the French ambassador to Mali that the week was marked. In its own way, The chained Duck summarizes by explaining that Ambassador Jean Meyer was ” ordered to leave Mali after statements hostile to the military junta by ministers Le Drian and Parly. Which were of course consistent with “language elements” provided by the Élysée and blessed by Macron “.
It is necessary ” know how to stop a war », therefore urges Point. According to this weekly France has no choice but to get out as quickly as possible of the trap in which it finds itself trapped in Mali, caught in the crossfire of a junta, a population and jihadist groups who now unite in hatred of our country. In the Sahel, France maintains the advantage in the fighting but has lost strategically and politically. The remarkable tactical successes won over the jihadist movements have been unable to prevent either the extension of their operations to the Gulf of Guinea, from Côte d’Ivoire to Benin, or the reversal against our country of the peoples exasperated by the number of victims and refugees. The situation in Mali has suddenly changed, making it impossible to continue our military engagement », sighs Point. As this magazine notes, It goes without saying that the jihadists are the first beneficiaries of the destabilization of the States of the Sahel “.
“ That Operation Barkhane must be terminated has long been obvious, bids Marianne (…) While the putsches agitate West Africa, France seems more than ever weakened in countries whose youth is inundated, on social networks, with speeches rejecting what is presented as “neocolonialism”. Worse, in neighboring Burkina, demonstrators recently accused the French army of arming the jihadists rather than fighting them “, is terrified this weekly. According to Marianne, “ what is at stake in Africa is the eviction of France “. Which ” can only save the furniture… and his dignity », is heartbroken accordingly Marianne.
François Hollande, from the Élysée to the Palais Bourbon
Those who had pinned their hopes on former French President François Hollande as a possible recourse for the left in the next presidential election, will be disappointed… According to the magazine The Obs, the leadership of the Socialist Party “ has reserved a constituency for François Hollande for the next legislative elections. That of its historic stronghold of Tulle (centre-south of France). To this weekly, a member of the PS management confides that François Hollande “ wants to rebuild on ruins of disastrous Hidalgo bid »…
… in reference to the Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo who, with 3%, is overtaken by the Communist Party candidate Fabien Roussel (3.5%) in the survey of JDD. Here too, a first…