The ballot box spoke this Sunday: as in 2017, the French will have to decide between Emmanuel Macron (LREM) and Marine Le Pen (RN) during the second round of the Presidential. Unlike the campaign for the 1st round which never seemed to really take off, this second part of the campaign is picking up speed on Monday. The two camps surrender blow for blow.
10:23 am: Lionel Jospin “will dismiss Le Pen and vote for Emmanuel Macron” in the second round
10:00 am: Nicolas Sarkozy announces that he will vote “for Emmanuel Macron”
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy spoke on Tuesday in favor of Emmanuel Macron. He thus puts an end to a long silence, Mr. Sarkozy having refused to comment during the entire campaign before the first round.
9:35 am: The RN charges Emmanuel Macron on his pension reform
According to the RN spokesperson, invited this Tuesday morning on France Info, the presidential candidate “reacts like a shopkeeper” concerning the pension reform. “Emmanuel Macron sees that he has a deeply antisocial, deeply unfair measure, which is going to be a nightmare for millions of French people. (…) He clearly sees that this measure is scary today”, he believes. .
According to Marine Le Pen’s support, the LREM candidate will only support one section of society. “He has a track record that everyone knows. We knew what he might do and what he was capable of. Above all, he was the president of the very rich.”
9:20 am: Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade, LREM deputy: “Voting Marine Le Pen is voting Vladimir Poutine”
Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade, Deputy En Marche at the National Assembly, was invited in “We must speak” this Tuesday morning on DH Radio. “Voting Marine Le Pen is voting Vladimir Putin,” said the MP.
“I remind everyone that she has been banned from traveling to Ukraine for almost five years. Since the start of the campaign, she has been trying to erase things from her program and smooth her image. She put 1.5 million leaflets in the trash where she shakes hands with Vladimir Putin. She was also financed in 2017 by a Russian bank. In 2022, she is financed by a Hungarian bank close to the regime of the Russian president. Which means that the links that she and her party have with Russia are not broken. If she is elected, it would be a success for Putin. As well as a failure for France and Europe”, he added.
8:55 am: Le Pen claims to know “who will be (his) Prime Minister” if elected
“I have all the teams I need, I might form four or five of them”, launched this Tuesday Marine Le Pen on France Inter, who indicated to know who will be his “Prime Minister” but refusing to say her name.
“I won’t tell you anymore because we’re not in the United States, we don’t elect a ticket,” she continued.
08:49: For Gérald Darmanin, “Madame Le Pen’s program is a shameless lie”
On Franceinfo, the Minister of the Interior has instructed Marine Le Pen’s program. For the minister, “Madame Le Pen’s program is a shameless lie”. He predicts, if the far-right candidate is elected, “the ruin of the working classes”.
“She (Marine Le Pen, editor’s note) tries to erase all her rough edges, to make people believe, like a Trojan horse, that she has become reasonable”, denounced Gérald Darmanin.
8:47 am: Louis Alliot predicts “clashes within two years” in the event of Emmanuel Macron’s re-election
The vice-president of the RN judged on BFM TV that there would be “clashes in the next two years” in the event of Emmanuel Macron’s victory once morest Marine Le Pen.
“Everyone will be on the streets,” he said. Louis Aliot, beforehand, had described: “It is this France which in the depths of the territories and can no longer bear the cost of living which will make the election”. The mayor of Perpignan pointed to “real rural anger”.
“They are leading France to bankruptcy”, further accused Louis Aliot, once more evoking the executive.
08:43: Eric Zemmour in the Le Pen team? “It is not a possibility”, assures the candidate
“He does not want it, I do not want it either, I have expressed throughout the campaign the differences that we may have,” said the candidate on France Inter.
8:27 a.m .: Marine Le Pen castigates “Mélenchon’s betrayal”
“He was harder five years ago once morest a virtual Emmanuel Macron than he was on Sunday evening once morest a real Emmanuel Macron,” said France Inter Marine Le Pen on Tuesday, judging that he had been “closer to Emmanuel Macron on Sunday evening than five years ago”. “I find it disturbing, it’s a mystery to me”, she added, considering that this “behaviour” had been for her “a source of great astonishment”. is that Emmanuel Macron, at the time it was a project which was still virtual”, she continued.
Sunday evening following the announcement of the first estimates, Jean-Luc Mélenchon called on his voters not to give “a voice to Marine Le Pen”.
“Sunday evening, he thought more of himself than of the French (…), he chose the interest of his elected officials than the interest of his voters, in the sense that he is already in the legislative elections”, slammed the far-right candidate. “I think it’s a betrayal on his part, on his constituents,” added the candidate.
