In the spotlight: the new Macron-Le Pen duel in perspective for 2022
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Emmanuel Macron (L) -Marine Le Pen (D) Alain Jocard, Eric Feferberg / AFP
By: Norbert Navarro
10 mins
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It's anything but a surprise.
According to an Ipsos poll for the newspaper
Le Parisien
and the radio-TV channel France Info, if the first round of the presidential election was held tomorrow Sunday, "
the outgoing president and the boss of the RN would qualify for the second round
", notes
Le Parisien
, after having tested "
all the hypotheses of the ballot, depending on the candidate on the right, and with or without the presence of the polemicist Éric Zemmour
".
In figures, Emmanuel Macron would collect 24 to 26% of the vote in the first round, and Marine Le Pen from 19 to 20% if Éric Zemmour is a candidate, and 22-23% otherwise.
Being reminded that Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen were "the finalists of 2017",
Le Parisien
hastens to recall that "
the campaign has not started, all the candidates have not yet been appointed, the programs are far from be on the table
”.
Macron-Le Pen, plus a zest of Zemmour in the equation
On the right, depending on the presence or not of Eric Zemmour in this first round, this poll reveals "
a tightening in a pocket
square
" between the president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse and her counterpart in Hauts-de- France Xavier Bertrand, "
the latter would get only one point more than her in the first round
" and both would be in a range going from 14 to 17%.
“
Clearly, with good campaign dynamics, (Valérie Pécresse) can hope to be in the game to qualify for the second round,
” said
Le Parisien
.
As for Eric Zemmour, with 8 to 8.5% of the voting intentions "
he would play almost equal with Jean-Luc Mélenchon or Anne Hidalgo
", points
Le Parisien
.
For his part, in
Le Figaro
, François Bayrou, an ally of Emmanuel Macron, calls for the creation of a “
great central political movement.
A simple, popular structure, to which the French will be able to adhere without having to wonder to which chapel they should belong,
"said the president of the centrist party Modem to
Figaro
, issuing this warning:"
only a unitary and broad movement will be able to unite
".
Hulot, the return
The world congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature opened yesterday in Marseille, in the south of France. By launching it, the Head of State has urged France to better protect its maritime space in the Mediterranean by 2027. And
Liberation is
raising a cry of alarm, because "
everyday biodiversity is disappearing before our eyes, at a dizzying speed. Species that go extinct bid farewell too quiet to be heard. As for the trees, they will only make noise when they fall on us
, ”deplores
Libé.
Yesterday, in Marseille, it was also the occasion for the reunion in public between Emmanuel Macron and Nicolas Hulot. As
Le Figaro
points out
, between them, “
the bridges are not broken but the current is not restored either. Nicolas Hulot is still a totem of ecology
”(being reminded of his shattering exit from the Philippe government in 2018).
Make no mistake, underlines
Le Figaro
, the voice of Nicolas Hulot "
will weigh on the presidential election while the subject is presented as one of the challenges of the ballot.
It's been a while since Emmanuel Macron understood it.
But for now, it has still not cashed the benefit of its environmental action.
Even his decisions with strong symbolic significance such as the closure of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant or the abandonment of the airport project at Notre-Dame-des-Landes did not attract the sympathy of the Greens
”.
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