Macron, who received 27.8 percent of the vote yesterday, traveled to the city of Denain in the Norte department, while his rival (23.1) traveled to Yonne at the start of the campaign for the April 24 election date, which again attracted more than 48 people Millions of voters are called.
For both politicians, protagonists of the vote five years ago in the Elysée elections, the voting potential is great, starting with the nearly 13 million French abstaining, 26.3 percent of the electoral roll, and the 17 million who supported other candidates.
In dialogue with residents of Denain, the head of state was conciliatory, declaring that “to be convincing, he must complete his project”, using a different method than in the second round in 2017, when he defeated Le Pen by 66 percent in the folklore accompaniment vote.
I want to convince everyone, but with a new method, stressed the president, who very early benefited from the rejection of the extreme right, since almost all the other presidential candidates gave him their support, including the leader of La Francia Insumisa , Jean-Luc Mélenchon, third the day before with 21.9 percent.
“We know who we will never vote for (…). We must not give Le Pen a single vote,” stressed Mélenchon to his supporters in that capital.
Le Pen attacked the president in the Yonne with an issue that keeps the French up at night: the accelerated loss of purchasing power caused by the Ukraine conflict.
In this context, the founder of the National Group, heir to the far-right Front National founded by her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, offered urgent measures to combat inflation.
Likewise, he assured that he does not intend France’s exit from the European Union, although he leaves aside the Community market in terms of electricity in order to lower prices when national production is handed over.
The first polls released after the election confirmed Macron’s favoritism, but with much less advantage than five years ago.
According to the Elabe Institute’s research for the television channel BFM and the weekly newspaper L’Express, the leader of La República en Marcha would retain the position with 52 percent of the vote, while the MP and contender for the Elysée for the third time would I get a 48.
The victory for Macron would be looser in the results of the Ipsos-Sopra Steria poll conducted for the Franceinfo chain and the newspaper Le Parisien, with 54 percent of the voting intentions, similar to the lead reflected in the Odoxa opinion study. mascaret.
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