Journalist Joseph Macé-Scaron publishes "La Surprise du chef", a book of political fiction that he presents on Monday in the program "It feels good", with Anne Roumanoff.
The novelist believes that the French do not want a Macron-Le Pen second round for the 2022 presidential election. According to him, those who predict such a poster are wrong.
INTERVIEW
A general of the French army elected, against all expectations, President of the Republic in 2022. This is not a prediction by Joseph Macé-Scaron, but the intrigue of his new novel
La Surprise du chef
, which he presents Monday in the show of Anne Roumanoff
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Leaving fiction and the story of his novel for a few minutes, the journalist and writer believes that the presidential election of 2022 could, in reality, be played out far from the duel announced between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, as a revenge of the poster from 2017.
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"I think there will be a real surprise," predicts the journalist.
Smiling at the suggestion of an improbable second round opposing Eric Zemmour to Jean Lassalle, he recalls that the previous election had already contradicted the predictions of political analyzes.
"A year before the 2017 presidential election, either the pollsters predicted the triumph of Alain Juppé, or they questioned those polled on a second round between Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande, as in 2012", he supports.
"Emmanuel Macron against Marine Le Pen, the French do not want it"
"And at the time, I also remember that an immense majority of French people did not want this face-to-face meeting," adds Joseph Macé-Scaron, extending the comparison between the 2017 and 2022 polls. "This once again, we are offered a replay of what has already taken place. And something which is more a duet than a duel, objectively, so Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen answer each other. the French don't want it. "
For Joseph Macé-Scaron, it is now too early to formulate a realistic prediction of the composition of a second round of the presidential election one year before the election. "For a very long time, we believed in politics in France that there was a structural invariance, that things were not going to move," he theorizes. "That is to say that there was the right and the left, that a department would always vote in the same way, etc. Today, we see that anything is possible."