The national rally candidate collected compliments and encouragement during her last trip before the second ballot, Friday, in Pas-de-Calais.
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Back to sources. Friday, April 22, last day of official campaign before the ballot, Marine Le Pen wandered in her political stronghold of Hauts-de-France. The opportunity for her to send “a hat to a lucid electorate, struck by all ills”, workers, craftsmen and independent who make up her most fervent base, in the hope of mobilizing it in the ballot boxes, Sunday April 24.
In Etaples-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais), a stone’s throw from the Touquet, a resort of the Macron spouses, the far-right candidate, who had declared herself in January 2020, composed her card final postal. “I made a very nice campaign, whatever I go out”, welcomed “the most beautiful market in France” the one who says he wants to “defend the beautiful”.
Marine Le Pen bathed in the worship of his supporters. In moments of doubt or reduction, the crowds on land where the inhabitants approach their champion with happiness give him “balm to the heart”, according to the word of her press counselor, Caroline Parmentier. In Etaples, a woman launched her with conviction: “Marine, you were very classy during the debate. Very classy!” The interested party thanked her, her eyes shiny with emotion. All day long, she collected compliments and encouragement.
” ransacking “and” precariousness “
Marine Le Pen probably needed it. “It is not the polls that make the election,” she said when it is given losing in the last opinion surveys against Emmanuel Macron, who continues to win in advance after the televised debate Wednesday evening. “By brutalizing me, he actually brutal also the millions of voters who vote for me,” repeated his rival, who delivered an anti-macron speech of rare violence, Thursday evening in Arras. We met all the leaders of the National Rally (RN), eager to evacuate the television duel, more enthusiastic to exchange jokes or photos, as if to mark the end of an adventure lived in good camaraderie.
These last hours of the campaign before midnight have allowed Marine Le Pen to scratch her opponent one last time, at a distance, on her social policy, described as a “Saccling”. “The French will take it for Perpet ‘,” said the populist leader by targeting the outgoing president to postpone the retirement age at 65. She defended hers in front of the cameras: the French could leave at 60 for those who started working before 20 years old, at 62 for others … without saying that to perceive a full retreat, it will sometimes be necessary to wait until 67 years.
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