The joy of accessing the final duel has little place, Sunday evening, to a form of perplexity on the line to adopt, between gathering on the far right and folding of the voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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One and the other of the two finalists of the presidential election 2022 hammered that the second round would be “a new election” full of promise. But Marine Le Pen probably did not expect the wind so quickly. At the Bois de Vincennes, Sunday evening 10 April, the revenge had a taste of already-view: the candidate of the national rally (NR) delivered a speech as in 2017, on the same platform, with the same reference to the “people” registered on his desk. But private assets in the 2022 campaign, on which she was counting. Now in the first line, without the screen represented by Eric Zemmour, facing Emmanuel Macron both feet in the arena, she unfolded a relief speech, where the desire to fight appeared anesthetized by the elements of language.
Prudente, the RN candidate had reasons to rejoice. With 23.41% of the vote, it beats its own first round score of 2017 (21.3%) and captures at least 430,000 additional votes, despite the unputted competition of Eric Zemmour. “She has completed a considerable sociological opening,” insists Jean-Philippe Tanguy, his deputy countryside director. The nationalist far-right and sovereignist weighs in total more than 32.5% of the votes, taking into account Eric Zemmour (7.05%) and Nicolas Dupont-aignan (2.07%). But Marine Le Pen also benefited from the “helpful vote” of this camp in the first round and does not record obvious dynamics for the second.
On Sunday night to Monday, the RN executives were looking for signs of consolation. “Three months ago, we were burying,” recalled the Regional Gilles Pennelle. “The money hard to find, the signatures at the last moment, Zemmour and the betrayals … and it progresses, listed Louis Aliot, Mayor of Perpignan. Marine has made an effective campaign and adapted to the context. The mouse hole is present and possible . “
Hold both tips
It qualifies rightly. Over the departure, the gap has tightened with Jean-Luc Mélenchon (21.95%). Already, the overseas success of the leader of the “insou”, who has come largely at the head of Guyana, Martinique and Guadeloupe, had had evil omen for Marine Le Pen. His speech, Sunday night, made the effect of a cold shower at the Rn. “We must not give one voice to M me Le Pen,” repeated Jean-Luc Mélenchon four times, drawing a clear line between the nature of the far-right project and that of Emmanuel Macron: “As long as life goes on, the fight continues.”
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