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French presidential election: in Yonne, Le Pen campaigning on purchasing power
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National Rally candidate Marine le Pen shakes hands with a fishmonger at the Courtenay market on March 19, 2022. AFP - GUILLAUME SOUVANT
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Less than three weeks before the presidential election, Marine Le Pen consolidates her second place in the polls.
The candidate of the National Rally was on the move in villages of Burgundy with a strategy: to continue to score points on the single theme of purchasing power.
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With our special correspondent in Courtenay
,
Julien Chavanne
A presidential candidate who pushes the song.
On the small market of Courtenay,
Marine Le Pen
, the candidate of the National Rally, is at home.
Well received, selfies, kisses, autographs…
And during this trip, the candidate puts forward a single theme: purchasing power.
“
Is it with the fuel that it's a little hard?
she asks passers-by.
“
It's a bit complicated
,” replies a woman.
"
It hurts a little bit
," adds a man.
"
There, it stings a little, I suspect
," she concludes.
With the butcher, the nurse or even the truck driver, it's always the same subject that is discussed.
Marine Le Pen even claims to be a candidate for purchasing power.
“
A number of candidates don't talk about it at all.
They even consider it contemptuous to talk about purchasing power.
I mentioned purchasing power, for more than eight months I have been campaigning on this subject because, in reality, already before the war in Ukraine, prices had exploded
, ”she believes.
So much so that she gets annoyed when the press asks her about another subject: “
Are there journalists who are not Parisians and who are interested in the subject
?
“, retorts the RN candidate in front of the journalists following her trip when the questions no longer speak of purchasing power.
According to surveys, purchasing power is the first concern of the French.
And less than 21 days before the election, and with Éric Zemmour behind in the polls, the RN candidate hopes to continue to surf on concerns related to
the war in Ukraine
.
►Also read: The very patriotic economic program of Marine Le Pen
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