French presidential election: Marine Le Pen calls on abstainers to mobilize
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Marine Le Pen (C), presidential candidate of the far-right National Rally (RN) party, at a local market in Menton, southeastern France, on February 12, 2022. AFP - VALERY HACHE
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The candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen is this weekend traveling on the Côte d'Azur.
She was this Saturday in Menton.
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From our special correspondent in Menton,
No doubt, on the Côte d'Azur, Marine Le Pen is on conquered ground.
But the trauma of the
regional
is in everyone's head.
Last June, RN voters had largely shunned the ballot box.
Marine Le Pen's party did not win any region.
“
Abstention is our main enemy
,” worries a campaign official.
So at each trip, at each meeting, the candidate reminds us:
"From the moment when those who abstain the most are the young people and the popular categories, by definition, it strikes me more than anyone else .
But the decisions that are taken today will determine the future, not only of our country, but of the daily life of the French people.
This is what I come to tell them.
If you don't use the weapon of voting, others will decide for you and you won't like the decisions.
»
"
Everything will be played out in the last few weeks
"
An argument heard from afar by Yannick crossed on the sunny market of Menton.
This 30-year-old is still undecided.
“
There is nothing convincing today.
There is no one who has a good program.
It's complicated to choose
, ”he says, not excluding abstaining.
“
Depending on the program that will come out today, I think everything will be decided in the last weeks.
»
The campaign does not yet really interest the French, pending the official candidacy of Emmanuel Macron.
According to the latest poll published, the French president is still in the lead with 24% of voting intentions in the first round.
Behind him, Valérie Pécresse, Éric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen are neck and neck, between 14 and 15%, for a qualification for the second round.
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