Between the outgoing president and the candidate of the national gathering, the confrontation intensifies by the media interposed to two days of the first round of the presidential election.
Le Monde and AFP
The far-right candidate has chosen to respond to the outgoing President. Marine Le Pen judged, Friday, April 8, Emmanuel Macron “very aggressive since he entered campaign”. “Aggressive in his postures, aggressive in his remarks,” said the hon. Member for Pas-de-Calais on Franceinfo, two days of the first round of the presidential election.
“I found the words of the President of the Extremely Outstanding Republic,” she added, while Mr. Macron criticized, in an interview with the Parisian broadcast on Thursday night, “the racist program” of M me Le Pen “which aims to cleave society and a great brutality”.
“I put it on the challenge”
“I was quite shocked to hear the President of the Republic, who is the guarantor of the Constitution, accusing me of racism” and “I challenge him to find a single proposal in my program that discriminates The French because of their origin, their religion or color of their skin, because that is racism, “she said Friday morning.
“The President of the Republic should understand that creating a difference of law, giving additional rights in terms of nationality has never, in no right, been considered racism,” she Assured about its National Priority Cardinial Proposal.
“febrile”
“The debate has completely trivialized Marine Le Pen’s speech because she had a great campaign manager who was even more outstanding than she: Mr. Zemmour,” Macron still had Mr. Macron. The president also said for the “debate” and “La Castagne” of the second round.
Should a president say that? Can a president of the republic can not consider that we are there in a democratic debate, that we exchange arguments? “, regretted M me Le Pen. According to her, this “still reveals a certain form of febrilling on his part”, while the candidate of the national rally (NR) estimates “undeniably” that it has never been so close to entering the Elysee.
“Conquest spirit”
In the ninth wave of the survey conducted by Ipsos-Sopra Steria with CEVIPOF and the Jean Jaurès Foundation for Le Monde, the gap between the outgoing president (26.5%) and the far-right candidate (21.5%) does not stop tightening. A second round between M. Macron and M me Le Pen takes place in the voting intentions, but Jean-Luc Mélenchon can always create the surprise (16%), benefiting from a strong momentum.
In case of Macron-Le Pen duel in the second round, the gap is reduced. The NRC candidate would obtain 46% of the vote (1.2 point error margin), that is to say a three-point increase compared to the end of March.
While the last polls show it falling against M me Le Pen, the candidate of the Republic in March (LRM) said to have “the spirit of conquest rather than the spirit Defeat “and not being” in excess insurance “or” in feverishness “. “I still consider myself to conquer (…), [he considers] that nothing is ever acquired in some way. The rest, fear, etc., no,” said the candidate at a short visit On a market in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), at the exit of his interview with RTL.
“She remains antirepublican”
At the same time, on LCI, the President of the LM group at the National Assembly, Christophe Castaner, took place at the NR candidate. “What I notice at Marine Le Pen is that at the bottom it is constant in its values, values that rank it on the far right of our country, even if it has a method to conquer the power that consists of to hide what it really is and, suddenly, it is totally inconstant on its political project, “he launched.
For Mr. Castaner, “Marine Le Pen is not a Republican candidate”. He believes that she “used a banality cloak to hide what she is, but in her values she stays antirepublicaine”.