Arrived second in the first round of the French presidential election, the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen was this Monday, April 11 in Soucy, in Yonne. A visit organized at the last moment so as not to leave the field open to Emmanuel Macron.
It was around 12:30 p.m. when Thierry and Dominique Blanc received a phone call: would they agree to receive Marine Le Pen on their cereal farm? The National Rally candidate landed five hours later, surrounded by a swarm of cameras.
The press was warned at the last moment, reports our special correspondent, Julien Chavanne. For this first day of the between-two-rounds, Marine Le Pen’s campaign team had initially planned a meeting in luxurious salons in the capital with his staff. It made “ too paris “, recognizes a part of the team. And even if Marine Le Pen refutes it, this change of program also appears as a response to Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Denain, in Hauts-de-France.
” I did not wait for Emmanuel Macron to campaign because otherwise I would never have started it, she tackles, in reference to the late entry into the campaign of the president-candidate. Let him go to Denain to see the consequences of five years of his policy, since it is one of the poorest towns in France, I hope he will come out of it with the awareness that his policy has made a lot of trouble. »
Marine Le Pen walks in the mud alongside the couple, again and again with the subject of purchasing power and inflation. ” We are facing a wall that the government was trying to reduce because we are in an election period, without saying what awaits us the day after the election. Me, I believe that the role of a leader is to hold a speech of truth “, she argues.
Purchasing power and rurality: the campaign diptych of the first round will remain the guideline for the second. ” We strike while the iron is hot “Explains someone close to the candidate, determined to surf on a subject that has succeeded so far. His campaign program will remain flexible, to leave no inch of ground to Emmanuel Macron.