Presidential: Emmanuel Macron talks about ecology in Le Havre, Marine Le Pen at a meeting in Avignon

Published on: 04/14/2022 – 09:18 The two finalists in the presidential election will once again face each other remotely on Thursday, for the fourth day of the campaign between the two rounds: Emmanuel Macron will be in Le Havre with Édouard Philippe to talk about ecology, while Marine Le Pen holds a big meeting in the evening in Avignon. A trip dedicated to ecology for Emmanuel Macron, the first big meeting of the between-two-rounds in the South for Marine Le Pen: the two presidential finalists go back to the front, Thursday, April 14, in a campaign led drum beating before the second round of April 24. Mobilize the troops in the home stretch but also and above all convince the undecided and the 12.8 million people who abstained on Sunday. If the polls give Emmanuel Macron the winner for the moment (53 to 55%), the return match promises to be much tighter than in 2017. Purchasing power, pension reform, diplomacy and European construction: the outgoing president and the far-right candidate has been multiplying fronts since Monday, defending radically different projects by immediately responding to attacks from the camp opposite. >> To read also: “This time, it will be humanly impossible to vote for Macron “After a dotted first-round campaign, in particular because of the war in Ukraine, the president-candidate continues to travel to the regions. On Thursday, he will be welcomed in Le Havre by his former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, mayor of the city, but not quite on conquered ground since the port city, like many large cities, placed rebellious leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Sunday at the top of the vote, almost three points ahead of Emmanuel Macron. owned silence his voice “After an interview with France Bleu, the candidate Macron will visit the port, the largest French platform for containers, in the afternoon, before going to the Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbine production plant. .Objective: to defend renewable energies and particularly wind turbines, under the fire of criticism from the RN candidate. But also to address voters with ecological fiber, especially on the left, often sensitive to the more radical line of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round (21.95%) compared to the “moderate” Yannick Jadot (4.63% ).“No one owns their voices” and “I speak to the French people”, underlined the president-candidate Wednesday evening on TF1. Recalling his desire to “listen and convince”, he repeated that he would unveil the amendments to his program “in the coming days”. >> To read also: “Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen differ on the referendums, not on the seven-year term “For example, the “ecological planning” dear to the rebellious candidate, “I can feed on it” like other proposals from the candidate Yannick Jadot, he continued. According to the Ipsos barometer published on Wednesday, 59% voters who voted for Jadot in the first round could put a Macron ballot in the ballot box on April 24, 47% for those of the right-wing candidate Valérie Pécresse and 37% for rebellious voters. President-candidate on the side of former far-right polemicist Éric Zemmour: 81% of them would choose Marine Le Pen against only 4% Emmanuel Macron.Marine Le Pen “in campaign for 30 weeks”Long day in perspective also for Marine Le Pen: guest of the program “Les quat re truths” on France 2 at 7:30 a.m., she will respond to readers of La Provence in the early afternoon before holding an evening meeting at the Avignon exhibition center. She only came in third place (nearly 19% of the vote) Sunday in the city of the popes, 18 points behind the rebellious leader and just behind Emmanuel Macron. But throughout the Vaucluse department, the RN candidate took off with nearly 30% of the vote.>> To read also: “The new poster of Marine Le Pen, or the pretense of the com ‘of the far right” During an interview with BFMTV on Wednesday, she said she was doing “the maximum” for this campaign between the two rounds, saying that she had been “in the campaign for 30 weeks, him (Emmanuel Macron ) since 3 days”. She again called for the necessary “mobilization” of her essentially popular electorate. Asked about the April 20 debate with the outgoing president, a traditional highlight before the second round, she tried to minimize its impact. “It’s an important moment, but an election is not just about a debate”, even if in 2017, her performance had not been “particularly successful”, she admitted. Today, “I approach it very calmly,” she said. With AFP