French presidential 2022: Marine Le Pen is active before the Zemmour-Mélenchon debate
The candidate of the National Rally (RN) for the presidential election in France in 2022, Marine Le Pen, distributes campaign leaflets on the market in Hayange, in the east of the country, on September 23, 2021. AFP - JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN
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Opposed to Jean-Luc Mélenchon this Thursday evening September 23 in a debate on BFM TV, Eric Zemmour begins to worry the National Gathering.
He climbs in the polls and steals points from Marine Le Pen.
The RN candidate for the 2022 presidential election is forced to occupy the media so as not to be overtaken on her right.
She went this Thursday morning to Hayange, an RN city in eastern France, to try to become visible again in the face of the far-right polemicist.
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With our special correspondent in Hayange,
Julien Chavanne
"
Are you okay?"
""
It's going well, thank you, hello!
», Answers Marine Le Pen.
“
Welcome to Hayange!
Plan A will have lasted barely ten days.
The candidate of the National Rally wanted to campaign without cameras, without short sentences.
180 degree turn: this Thursday morning, it is a swarm of microphones which surround it on the market of Hayange.
A few hours from the Zemmour / Mélenchon debate, the candidate wants to show herself in contact with the French.
A well calculated counter-programming, explains the RN mayor of the city, Fabien Engelmann: “
There we are making ground and we win an election on the ground and not on TV sets.
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Marine Le Pen, she plays indifference to Eric Zemmour: “
I am going among the French, I will hear them.
I will, once again, share with them.
This is my agenda.
If others have other agendas, it is their choice, their freedom, and I do not judge that by the way.
The RN candidate can no longer ignore the threat.
Without having found the right response, his entourage hopes that the Zemmour bubble will quickly deflate to the test of the campaign.
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