Thirty-five days before the presidential election and two days following the declaration of candidacy of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, two of the main candidates for the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Eric Zemmour, continued their campaign, Sunday, March 6, despite the omnipresence of the war in Ukraine in French public debate.
On the left, the candidate of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, gave a speech at 3 p.m. in the open air on the Gros Caillou esplanade, in Lyon. This “meeting for peace” largely devoted to the positions of the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône on the foreign policy of France, formed a response to criticism of his vision of a “non-aligned” geopolitics – he had to admit ” the mistake “ for having considered the invasion of Ukraine impossible and has been vigorously criticized by Yannick Jadot and Anne Hidalgo since the beginning of the conflict.
On the far right, Eric Zemmour was on his side at the Zénith de Toulon, from 5 p.m., with the ambition of reviving the dynamics of his campaign, notably slowed down by his complacency with the regime of Vladimir Poutine, which he see as one “ally”. The Reconquest candidate! welcomed on stage, for the first time, Marion Maréchal. The niece of Marine Le Pen, a former Frontist deputy, is the final stage, for the candidate’s campaign team, of a “union of rights” also symbolized by the recent arrivals of Guillaume Peltier (from the Republicans), Stéphane Ravier and Gilbert Collard (former National Rally).
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