The national gathering, determined to wash the 2017 affront, has again missed his debate against Emmanuel Macron, but falling into other through.
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Imperceptible reminder of the 2017 debate. In the early seconds of their television duel, Wednesday, April 20, Marine Le Pen fled Emmanuel Macron’s gaze who stared at him in those of his rival. As if she had first wanted to escape the confrontation, before wearing the calm and smiling face of her campaign of 2022. Throughout this evening who had to be that of his revenge, Marine Le Pen seemed to look for his place. From serious contenders to the Elysee, but having lost along his “people” lawyer, caught up with choices that have blurred his posture, line and program.
She had faced a leader of the outgoing state and in a position of force, it is she who has minimized the risks. She who wanted at all costs to avoid aggressive renounced the offensive. His reviews of Emmanuel Macron’s assessment appeared too vague, too shy to shake the opponent. Worse, the latter found a way to refer the party leader and Pas-de-Calais to his own assessment: vote against aid to Ukraine in the European Parliament, against the tariff shield or the “separatism law on the” separatism “At the National Assembly, recognition of the illegal annexation of Crimea. On the defensive, Marine Le Pen in brandished a printed tweet of 2014, without escaping the murderer charge: “You depend by Mr. Putin”. A total reversal, while the marinist entourage hammered for months that their best chance was the presidential balance.
The populist leader played on the opponent’s field – credibility – and disarmed. Its technical presentation of measures for purchasing power has placed the former Minister of Bercy as a professor of economics. When it dwells on unemployment or debt figures, Emmanuel Macron recalls that “we are talking about lives behind”. The one who had won the trophy of “proximity” with the French began in the objective, missed, of his campaign of between-two-tours: to cultivate a presidential stature to the point of staying behind. His usual register of emotion appeared only by keys, with the “absolutely incredible suffering” of caregivers or the youth “thrown in precariousness”. His anti-plan and anti-Europe speech has erased, the one against immigration and Islam has only arisen in the last hour, although they know how to link any theme to foreigners.
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The candidate who hammers that she is no longer extreme right seemed not to know which audience. Neither the assets seized by the fear of decommissioning, to whom it promises happy tomorrows and hunting “the oligarchy”, nor to the electorate of the extreme and identity right, which leans for it a priori. Neither to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, while she lorks new reserves (19% of the Mélenchonians could refer to her, according to the IPSOS-Sopra Steria survey for Le Monde published Wednesday): Marine Le Pen Even scorched “punitive ecology” without offering pledges against climate change and returned with its initial radicality on the prohibition of the Muslim veil.
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