THE PEN. Between stormy movements and growing invectives against her rival, Marine Le Pen is trying to gain momentum in this campaign between two rounds of the presidential election. Latest campaign news for the RN candidate…
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- Marine Le Pen continues her campaign for the 2nd round of the 2022 presidential election, she multiplies trips, interviews and public meetings.
- The poll results at this stage give Marine Le Pen behind Emmanuel Macron in voting intentions, but only a few points behind.
- Follow the latest news from Marine Le Pen in this campaign between the two rounds of this 2022 presidential election.
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Beginning of inflection on the veil for Marine Le Pen?
Marine Le Pen was on the move this Saturday April 16 in Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre, in Eure-et-Loir. On this occasion, the candidate of the National Rally moderated her speech on the veil. “I am not obtuse”, assured the one who had had an exchange, the day before, on the Pertuis market with a woman who wears the veil after having estimated, the same morning, that “the ban on the veil [est] essential” at the microphone of BFMTV. “I know what the problems are with the veil. There are older women who put it on because it corresponds, for them, to a moment in their life. […] It does not have the same meaning as for young women who are forced”, conceded this Saturday Marine Le Pen, tempering however: “But we must solve these problems of women who are forced to put on the veil because they are under pressure from the Islamists.”
Also during her trip to Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre, Marine Le Pen castigated the demonstrations organized on Saturday, all over France, against the far right. “Coming to demonstrate against the results of an election, I find it deeply undemocratic. I think the French find it unpleasant to see that their choice is disputed,” she denounced. The candidate of the National Rally also did not fail to tackle her rival. “If Emmanuel Macron was sure to win, he would not have to go looking for athletes, actors”, denounced the one for whom “if the system implements such demonization, it is because he is afraid. “
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At the end of the first round of the 2022 presidential election, Marine Le Pen came second with 23.15% of the vote, behind Emmanuel Macron with 27.85% of the vote. The National Rally candidate only got 420,000 votes more than Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who failed in third place with 21.95% of the vote. Marine Le Pen nevertheless obtained a better score than in 2017 (20.3%) and won almost 500,000 more votes (8.1 million voters against 7.6 5 years ago). Its best results are recorded in the departments of northern and eastern France. The candidate came first in 20,000 municipalities out of the approximately 36,000 in the country.
Marine Le Pen has promised to “put France back in order by ensuring the protection of the French”. Several axes were put forward in his program during the campaign such as a “progressive system” allowing retirement from the age of 60, a triptych “protect, plan, transmit”, the superiority of constitutional law over European law to “restore the EU in its place”. It also intends to stop immigration, fight Islamism and raise purchasing power, with the aim of “giving back their money” and “their country” to the French.
The Macron – Le Pen confrontation was quite expected and has already been the subject of numerous polls before and after the first round. Each time, Emmanuel Macron has so far been given the winner of the election, but with a gap that varies according to the sequences and the institutes. Marine Le Pen is sometimes given only 1 to 2 points behind, which 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.