Macron’s continuity begins with an advantage over a Le Pen that, however, no longer generates as much rejection from the French electorate.
France wakes up on Monday and now knows if it will live another five years Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée or will have a far-right leader at the helm of the country for the first time. The second round of the presidential election confronts Macron with a Marine LePen which, on the basis of imagery and discourse, wants to gain support even among disenchanted leftists.
Both candidates already lived face to face for the first time in the 2017 presidential elections. When Macron got 66% of the vote and Le Pen had to settle for less than 34%, but the political, economic and social scenario of the time is not. the same as now, neither inside nor outside the French borders.
Macron asserted his status as a favorite in the first round of April 10 and secured more than 27 percent of the vote, more than four points above its direct rival. This first rehearsal served to show that the National Group leader has loyal voters, as she has shown during the last major election events.
The polls are now leading by about ten percentage points for Macron for this second round, something that, if confirmed, would already mean for Le Pen improving his result in 2017, but both the president and his team have struggled over the past two weeks to make it clear that nothing can be taken for granted can be considered .
They are afraid of the spirit of the electoral demobilization and that it is not worth the fact that practically all candidates defeated in the first round (and European leaders, such as Spain’s Pedro Sánchez) have asked to vote for Macron. Only Éric Zemmour has supported Le Pen, while leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon has urged not to vote for the far right or abstain from voting, in an ambiguous stance.
Two candidates with two profiles
One of Macron’s main challenges, as evidenced by the television debate on Wednesday, consisted of exposing the seams of Le Pen’s speech and emphasizing her far-right ideology without demonizing her or appearing arrogant, an adjective her political rivals have time and again attributed to her.
Analysts and the media agree that the president came out on top in the debate, but Le Pen was not cornered as much as he was in 2017.
Macron claims he still has work to do and faces this runoff with new promises under his arm, among other things raising the retirement age, promoting energy independence or tightening asylum policyin an amalgamation of measures with which he hopes to regain votes on the left and right of the political spectrum.
The president also hopes that his image and that of France will transcend borders, for which he continues to claim himself european leader and a loyal ally within NATO
Le Pen, who no longer rejects the EU or the euro outright, is instead betting on a “Europe of Nations” and with take France out of NATO’s Allied Command
The means to EITB group will offer one great coverage of the 2022 French elections to be held this Sunday, April 24
There is news from Paris on both radio and television, and eitb.eus it will also closely monitor the final hour of the election.
Source: EITB
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