French presidential election: three candidates in a meeting, what are the issues?

From left to right: Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecology Les Verts), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (La France Insoumise), Eric Zemmour (Reconquest).

© BERTRAND GUAY, STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN, CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP - Editing RFI

Text by: Valérie Gas Follow

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Yannick Jadot at the Zénith de Paris, Jean-Luc Mélenchon in Marseille, Eric Zemmour at the Trocadéro... Three presidential candidates held a meeting this Sunday, March 27.

For each of them, these militant gatherings must give a decisive impetus less than two weeks before the first round of the presidential election.

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At the Trocadéro, Eric Zemmour wants to make a show of force and bring together 50,000 people.

Declining in the polls since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine,

the dynamic no longer seems to be on the side of the Reconquest candidate

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Eric Zemmour is playing his all with this meeting on an emblematic site for the right: Nicolas Sarkozy and François Fillon had also gathered thousands of supporters there, without succeeding in reversing the steam of ultimately losing campaigns.

Eric Zemmour hopes to achieve this and regain the upper hand over Marine Le Pen, who will be in Guadeloupe, and over Valérie Pécresse, suffering from Covid-19.

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To read also: On the right, the specter of implosion

Not far away, environmentalist Yannick Jadot is also organizing a crucial rally at the Zénith with the ambition of unblocking a campaign in which he has failed to bring environmental issues into the atmosphere.

Because on the left, the only candidate who scores points is Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who brings together his troops in Marseille, his chosen city.

Objective: to gain enough momentum to reach the second round, by biting the calves of Marine Le Pen who is ahead of him in the polls and thus winning the popular electorate on April 10. 

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To read also:

Campaign diary: the Mélenchon turtle on its way to the second round?

Twelve candidates are in the running for the 2022 French presidential election. © FMM graphic studio

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