The world keeps the synopsis of the campaign for the presidential election of 2022: a daily update, published at 7 p.m., looks back on the political events of the past day and discusses the appointments to come.
The news of the day: the candidates try to answer the concerns of the French on the purchasing power
They don’t have much time left to convince voters. Candidates from all sides have thus endeavored this week to stay as close as possible to the concerns of the French in terms of purchasing power. While fuel prices have exceeded 2 euros per litre, and electricity and gas prices have been soaring since the fall, the war in Ukraine is exacerbating inflation and worrying consumers.
Marine Le Pen just started a trip to the North on Friday on the theme of purchasing power. She felt that « l’explosion » energy prices was ” out of control “ and accused the government of inaction. The candidate of the National Rally (RN) wants to reduce the price of a liter of diesel by 44 cents, and that of gasoline by 34 cents, by lowering VAT from 20% to 5.5% on fuels as well as on the prices of energy.
” We are going to pass (…) to a war in the purse”, worried Ian Brossat, spokesperson for the Communist candidate, on Friday. He recalled that Fabien Roussel demanded that TotalEnergies not pay any dividends to its shareholders in 2022, so that this money would be “returned by the State to motorists”. “People are tight in the throat”, also won the number 2 of La France insoumise, Adrien Quatennens. Mr. Mélenchon wants to block prices “basic necessities” and freeze those for fuel at 1.40 euros per litre.
The Republican candidate, Valérie Pécresse, called for “a real effort by the government” for “that part of the additional taxes collected through the increase in the price of gasoline can be returned to the French”. The executive, which has already put in place several “shock absorbers” since October, preparing a new “resilience plan”.
The drawing of the week: the final list of candidates finally known
Every Friday, cartoonist Aurel gives us his view of the presidential campaign. This week, he returns to the announcement made Monday by the Constitutional Council of the final list of twelve candidates who will stand for the ballot on April 10. The President of the Republic declared himself in extremis claimant to his succession, Thursday, March 3.
Proposal of the day: Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to tax the highest incomes at 90%
To try to make a difference less than a month from the first round, the candidate of La France insoumise intends in particular to highlight his “tax revolution”which aims to “make the tax fairer” and would allow, according to him, to bring more than 150 billion euros of tax revenue into the coffers of the State.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon plans to restore the solidarity tax on wealth, abolished in 2017 by Emmanuel Macron, and wishes, as during the previous campaign, to modify the income tax scale to make it more progressive, by cutting it into fourteen slices – once morest five currently. For the 10% of the highest incomes, above 400,000 euros per year, The echoes revealed on Friday that it would set a marginal tax rate of 90%.
However, the measure remains suspended until the implementation of its constitutional reform, otherwise it might be revoked if deemed confiscatory. The leader of “rebellious” must present the details of the costing of its program on Saturday.
The day when… in 2002, disorganization reigned at Les Verts and did not help the candidate Noël Mamère
Twenty years ago, the campaign of the environmental candidate Noël Mamère, credited, like Yannick Jadot today, with around 7% of the votes in the polls, is struggling to organize itself and to get enthusiasm off the ground. In an article entitled “The Greens are sorry for a campaign by Mr. Mamère which is slow to gain momentum”, journalist Béatrice Gurrey recounts the organizational misadventures encountered by the party of the environmentalist candidate and the concerns that this arouses in its ranks.
First there is this meeting, organized in Talence (Gironde) on March 8, where “the Pepette group and the Seagulls, [a] chant[é] “The Ragagnas” (…) in a pink bathrobe”, “throwing sanitary tampons with both hands in a dumbfounded room “, before the speech of Noël Mamère. “The hour is too late, the organization of the evening is a little crazy, perhaps” ? Still, the candidate of the Greens “has been hardworking”, “his tongue forked several times, which rarely happens to the former television presenter”.
The main obstacle for the Mamère candidate is the following: “The Greens are still not an organized political party”what “probably makes them sympathetic, but does not facilitate the conduct of a presidential campaign”, writes our journalist. This is enough to arouse the dismay of activists: “In the regions, the Greens complain that the posters are not arriving, that the ‘4 pages’ on the program are ‘unsaleable’, that the campaign is ‘boring’. »
Even in Paris, “the campaign committee is sorry for the disorganization and lack of motivation of the activists on the ground”. If environmentalists are worried then, it is because they know it: “The score of their candidate in the presidential election will depend on their own future. »
In short :
Fabien Roussel targeted by an investigation for fictitious employment. The communist candidate is the target of an investigation for suspicion of fictitious employment opened by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office and entrusted to the Central Office for the Fight once morest Corruption and Financial and Tax Offenses, Agence France-Presse revealed on Friday. The initiation of this procedure follows the publication of an investigation by Mediapartin February, who accuses the candidate of having been paid as a parliamentary assistant between 2009 and 2014, without having really worked, which the candidate denies.
Twitter account of the president, not the candidate. In a press release released on Friday, the National Commission for the Control of the Electoral Campaign for the Presidential Election pinned the Head of State, candidate for his succession, for mixing genres on social networks. She criticizes Emmanuel Macron for having posted his declaration of candidacy letter on his official Twitter account, while he uses this account as part of “the exercise of his functions as President of the Republic”. “Such a message is related[e] to electoral propagandait is therefore “better not to use this account to broadcast there” this kind of content, said the institution.
The weekend schedule:
Country parties. Marine Le Pen, RN candidate, continues her trip to the North with a visit to the Dunkirk market on Saturday morning. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, candidate for La France insoumise, presents the costing of his program at 5 p.m. live on his YouTube channel. Nicolas Dupont-Aignan (Debout la France), holds the launch meeting of his departmental support committees from Paris, at 3:30 p.m. Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!) will be in the South West to meet Romain Lopez, the mayor of Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne), member of the National Rally, and will then hold a meeting in Agen. A public meeting of La République en Marche will take place at 5 p.m. in Marseille, in the presence of Gérald Darmanin and Gabriel Attal.
March for the climate. This Saturday marks the return of the Marches for the climate everywhere in France. The ecologist Yannick Jadot, the socialist Anne Hidalgo and the “rebellious” Jean-Luc Mélenchon participate in that of Paris, whose procession leaves from the Place de la Nation at 2 p.m.
“The Debate of the Century”. Oxfam, Greenpeace, the Foundation for Nature and Man and Notre Affaire à Tous are organizing “The Debate of the Century” between presidential candidates on the subject of the climate challenge, on Jean Massiet’s Twitch channel, at 4 p.m. Yannick Jadot, Anne Hidalgo, Fabien Roussel, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Philippe Poutou will be there.