THE PEN. According to Marine Le Pen, no President of the Republic has “shown as much authoritarianism as Emmanuel Macron”, she declared this Thursday morning. The day after the eruption of an activist recalling the links of the far-right candidate with Vladimir Poutine, Marine Le Pen continues her campaign and is expected in Avignon at the end of the day.
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- This April 14, Marine Le Pen began her day with a passage on the program “4 Vérités” on France 2. She took the opportunity to once again criticize the mandate of Emmanuel Macron: “We never had a president who has shown as much authoritarianism as Emmanuel Macron”.
- This Thursday, the RN candidate will go to Avignon at the end of the day for a meeting, which should start at 6:30 p.m.
- On the evening of Wednesday April 13, in Paris, Marine Le Pen’s press conference was disrupted by the appearance of an activist. She held up a photo of Marine Le Pen and Vladimir Poutine for a few seconds, long enough for the scene to be broadcast on television. The young woman from the Ibiza collective was then dragged to the ground and evacuated. To the media who questioned her about her gesture, she replied that she wanted “to make visible the fact that Marine Le Pen’s diplomacy was to be complacent with dictators, and to recall that she was a strong partner of Vladimir Putin”.
- The candidate of the National Rally confirmed that she will remove France from NATO’s integrated command if she is elected in the second round of the presidential election during the press conference organized yesterday in Paris in the presence of the French press and foreign.
- Faced with Bruce Toussaint, on BFMTV this April 13, Marine Le Pen discussed the subjects that shake her campaign: her relations with Russia, her position on immigration and the veil or her measures for purchasing power.
- “Marine Le Pen can win” said Edouard Philippe on France Inter. The dynamic of the RN candidate scares Emmanuel Macron and his supporters, so much so that the former mayor of Le Havre calls for “playing the rally before the second round”.
- Since the start of the campaign, Marine Le Pen has been very critical of Emmanuel Macron’s record and policy. The two candidates return attack after attack with each move.
- The results of the latest polls announce a very close second round, with Marine Le Pen on the heels of Emmanuel Macron: she is credited with 45 to 49% of the voting intentions against 51 to 55% for Emmanuel Macron.
- Follow the first hours of the in-between rounds of this 2022 presidential election, with all the news from Marine Le Pen.
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11:35 – Marine Le Pen criticizes Emmanuel Macron’s “authoritarianism”
“We have never had a president who has shown as much authoritarianism as Emmanuel Macron,” declared Marine Le Pen about her opponent in the presidential election, this Thursday, April 14 on France 2. The candidate has in particular castigated the public health policy of “massive restriction” in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic.
11:31 – Debate between two rounds: all the info
It’s official ! The debate between two rounds of the presidential election will take place next Wednesday, April 20. It will be moderated by journalists Léa Salamé for France 2, and Gilles Bouleau for TF1. The debate will begin at 9 p.m.
11:00 am – Marine Le Pen “will not apologize”
For the activist who spoke at Marine Le Pen’s press conference on Wednesday evening, it was not a question of interrupting the conference, but simply of recalling the links of the RN candidate with Vladimir Poutine and of “making visible the that Marine Le Pen’s diplomacy was to be complacent with dictators, and to remember that she was a strong partner of Vladimir Putin”. Marine Le Pen reacted to the release of her press conference: “We can very well express opposing positions without trying to prevent the democratic expression of each other’s projects.” This Thursday morning on France 2, she said she did not intend to apologize for the evacuation of the activist, pinned to the ground and then dragged out of the room by her security services.
10:50 – Burst of an activist during Marine Le Pen’s press conference
This April 13, Pauline Rapilly Ferniot, environmental activist of the “Collectif Ibiza” and environmental municipal councilor at the town hall of Boulogne-Billancourt, burst into a press conference by Marine Le Pen to brandish a photo of the candidate in the company by Marine Le Pen, on a heart-shaped placard. She was then evacuated and dragged on the ground, before being questioned by the media about her gesture. On RMC, the activist her gesture:
???? “The idea was that this photo of Marine Le Pen and Vladimir Poutine does not disappear from this campaign and that we put it back”.
Pauline Rapilly Ferniot, environmental activist of the “Collective Ibiza”. #ApollineMatin pic.twitter.com/KQVeF4zYdp
— RMC (@RMCinfo) April 14, 2022
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It will therefore be a new Macron – Le Pen duel in the second round of the presidential election. This confrontation was quite expected and has already been the subject of many 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. Marine Le Pen is given only 1 to 2 points behind, it is very clearly within the margin of error of the pollsters. 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.