The French President changes his slogan: from “With you” to “All of us”. The Polls: It’s between 51 and 54% in the ballots
The president of the right and left, who became right wing in the first term and only yesterday began to set the game straight with a lightning visit to Denain in the countries of the north, where popular classes abandoned by the left have been rewarding the Marines’ proposals for years Le Pen. After the first round, won by a larger margin than expected but still not enough to face the April 24 vote with ease, Emmanuel Macron tries to speak gauche, putting aside intransigence, which has made him the hero of those whom he chooses and the main enemy of others, and assures that he has understood: «To convince, I must unite, explaining the social strength of my project, it with proposals on ecology and work complete and enrich». A few hours have passed since the start of the crucial campaign for the second ballot, and Macron is already saying he is ready to revisit and table one of his most controversial measures, pension reform with raising the age from 62 to 65 years. . That could be 64, and in any case, the French will have the last word in a referendum that the head of state wants to organize soon in the event of reelection.
The Crossroads
Macron is at a crossroads: if he wins, he will become the first president confirmed for a second term without coexistence (i.e. have parliament and government on his side); If he loses, he will go down in history as the man who failed to stop the far right’s long journey and ended up presenting it with the Elysée. “Five years is not enough to change the country,” says Macron, and to conquer another five years we must start by winning the most important prey: the voters of the leader of the radical left JeanLuc Mélenchon, who only Le Pen came third, just behind Marine. According to an Elabe poll commissioned by the weekly L’Express, 34% of those who voted for Mélenchon in the first ballot now feel tempted by Marine Le Pen, 35% will vote for Macron, and 31% consider abstaining: you are almost two and a half million votes available, the most tempting game preserve. Thus, yesterday, Macron confided that he had already exchanged some text messages with Mélenchon, who has little or nothing in common with him, did not ask his people to vote for Macron, but had already said that “not a single vote goes to Marine Must Le Pen, that’s something. Macron says that “the Republican front is over, and the facts seem to back him up: it’s no longer the time for an automatic vote for those fighting the far right , the consensus must be won one by one Even among the scattered troops of the Républicains, the Gaullist party once glorious with 4.7 by Valérie Pécresse, there are those who are seduced by the idea of the hygiene chain between the Republican right and the extreme right to break through and then vote for Marine to end Le Pen. The chairman of the Rassemblement National could lean on the lean 7% left by Éric Zemmour, but according to Robert Ménard, Le Pen councilor, “we could do without it”. No one trusts Zemmour, who entered politics crying “Marine will never make it and who could see his role dwindling again if Le Pen were to become president. According to the polls, which underestimated Macron in the first round, the incumbent president is between 51 and 54 percent and the challenger is between 46 and 49 percent. Le Pen will seek more voices among the grassroots, who see Macron as a fog and mirror, while the incumbent president will do more to seek a sense of community with citizens. The change in slogan is already a sign: from “Avec vous, with you” evoking a separation between the leader and the people, to a more inclusive “Nous tous, we all”.
April 12, 2022 (Modification April 12, 2022 | 00:07)
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