Headline: Zemmour climbs, Le Pen unscrews, the curves meet
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Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour tied in a poll... A first since the start of the electoral campaign for the next presidential election in France.
For the first time, in fact, the voting intention curves of Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour have joined.
According to an Ipsos poll for
Le Parisien Dimanche
and France Info radio, the candidate of the National Rally and the candidate of Reconquest!
would both collect 14% of the vote in the first round, both being preceded by the candidate of the Les Républicains party Valérie Pécresse (16.5% of the voting intentions) and the not yet candidate of La République en Marche, outgoing President Emmanuel Macron, supported by the centrists, credited him with 24% of said intentions, down 1.5 points.
By falling 3 points in one month, Marine Le Pen seems "
weakened
" because, during the same period, Éric Zemmour gained 2 points, it is "
a turning point in the presidential campaign
", launches "in One"
Le Parisien Dimanche
.
Note however that, in an Ifop survey for
Le Journal du Dimanche
(and carried out over a more recent and shorter period than for the previous poll), the voting intentions in the first round are of a different barrel.
Marine Le Pen being credited with 17% there, against 16% to Valérie Pécresse and 14% to Éric Zemmour, Emmanuel Macron being credited with 25% of the voting intentions.
France in the sands
In Africa, for the magazine press, it was above all the expulsion from Bamako of the French ambassador to Mali that the week was marked.
In its own way,
Le Canard Enchaîné
summarizes by explaining that Ambassador Jean Meyer was “
summoned to leave Mali after statements hostile to the military junta by ministers Le Drian and Parly.
Which were of course in line with the
“elements of language”
provided by the Élysée and blessed by Macron
”.
You have to "
know how to stop a war
", consequently urges
Le Point
.
According to this weekly
France has no choice but to get out as quickly as possible of the trap in which it finds itself trapped in Mali, caught in the crossfire of a junta, a population and jihadist groups who now unite in hatred of our country.
In the Sahel, France maintains the advantage in the fighting but has lost strategically and politically.
The remarkable tactical successes won over the jihadist movements have not been able to prevent either the extension of their operations to the Gulf of Guinea, from Côte d'Ivoire to Benin, or the reversal against our country of the peoples exasperated by the number of victims and refugees.
The situation in Mali has suddenly changed, making it impossible to continue our military engagement,
” sighs
Le Point
.
As this magazine notes,
It goes without saying that the jihadists are the first beneficiaries of the destabilization of the States of the Sahel
”.
“
That it is necessary to put an end to Operation Barkhane has long been obvious,
adds
Marianne
(…)
While the putschs are agitating West Africa, France seems more than ever weakened in countries whose youth is overwhelmed, on social networks, with speeches rejecting what is presented as
“neocolonialism”
.
Worse, in neighboring Burkina, demonstrators recently accused the French army of arming the jihadists rather than fighting them
, ”says this weekly.
According to
Marianne
, "
what is at stake in Africa is the eviction of France
".
Which “
can only save the furniture… and its dignity
», is saddened by
Marianne
.
François Hollande, from the Élysée to the Palais Bourbon
Those who had pinned their hopes on former French President François Hollande as a possible recourse for the left in the next presidential election, will be disappointed... According to the magazine
L'Obs
, the leadership of the Socialist Party "
has reserved a constituency for François Hollande to the next legislative elections.
That of its historic stronghold of Tulle
” (central-southern France).
To this weekly, a member of the PS management confides that François Hollande “
wants to rebuild on the ruins of the disastrous candidacy of Hidalgo
”…
… in reference to the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo who, with 3%, is overtaken by the candidate of the Communist Party Fabien Roussel (3.5%) in
the
JDD
poll .
Here too, a first...
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Presidential France 2022
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Emmanuel Macron
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Eric Zemmour