Purchasing Power, Wages, Retreats … The two candidates surpass the social ground and try to convince the citizens of the left and the abstainers at ten days of the second round of the election.
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The battle for the popular electorate started. At ten days of the second round, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen face the same issue to win: capture the abstainment vote and seduce some 21.95% of voters who supported Jean-Luc Mélenchon Sunday, April 10, only reservation Consequently for the two finalists, after a ballot that has devoted the collapse of traditional parties.
At the heart of this double offensive: the question of purchasing power and inflation, but also that of pensions and wages. After a campaign cut by the Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron now seeks to give a more social coloring to its program, while it is mainly its proposals stamped on the right – postponement of retirement age at age 65, RSA conditioning 15 to 20 hours of activity or employment – who have “taken the light,” regretted his campaign team a few days ago.
For his part, Marine Le Pen intends to consolidate and expand the base of his electorate, while ensuring reassuring to appear president. Since Sunday, one and the other multiply the winks of the extreme left voters, inviting them to join a vast forehead that would exceed the traditional political cleavages.
“France forgotten”
“For the moment, Marine Le Pen remains in his corridor and hammering his flagship measures for the purchasing power, notes Bruno Cautères, CNRS researcher at CEVIPOf. It has succeeded him until then and allowed him to ‘Open a broader spectrum than in 2017. “Emmanuel Macron, has chosen to adjust its offer and multiplies social gestures,” he continues. With two unknowns: “Will he succeed in convincing the sincerity of this line change? And will his electorate follow him if he lands too much his program?”
In the aftermath of the first round, both were on the ground to boast the social and economic measures likely, in their eyes, to improve the daily life of their fellow citizens – Emmanuel Macron in a popular municipality of the North who had placed the gathering National in the lead, Marine Le Pen to farmers in the Yonne.
Addressing “France forgotten”, speaking of “social sacking”, it denounced the “wall of inflation” that the executive – which mobilized nearly 30 billion euros since Six months to help households – would not have anticipated enough. A message that she has hammered for months and allowed him to ask himself as the candidate of purchasing power. “She has this ability to talk to Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s electorate, explains the Politologist Gilles Ivaldi, specialist in the far right. About 30% of those who voted for him that they referred to it, against only 10% to 12% in 2017. “
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