"With Macron, it's cynicism, contempt, tricks (...) open-faced political perversity; I've seen it", launched the sovereignist candidate, in front of around 200 sympathizers, very few of whom wore the mask in the municipal hall of this town near the German border.

"Go vote, explain to all your neighbors that abstention is the Macron vote," he insisted.

According to a recent BVA survey for Orange and RTL on abstainers, only 71% of respondents said they intended to vote in the presidential election.

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan also criticized the numerous contracts signed by the State with consulting firms, in particular McKinsey, under the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron, revealed by the Senate.

"Even if it's not criminal, it's morally untenable because it's French people's money," he protested.

"These American boxes do not pay a cent in France", criticized Florian Philippot, figure of the anti-sanitary pass demonstrations and former right arm of Marine Le Pen who recently joined Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.

In his speech, the president of Debout la France, credited with between 1% and 2% of the voting intentions, then rolled out his program: relocation of a million jobs to France, elimination of the vaccination pass and reinstatement of suspended caregivers. because not vaccinated, establishment of the citizens' initiative referendum (RIC).

He even proposed, to the applause of the public, that Professor Didier Raoult become his Minister of Health if elected.

On purchasing power, he proposed an 8% increase in wages "with a reduction in social charges", and to no longer pay the contribution that France pays annually to the European Union to "return" this sum " retirees who have worked all their lives".

"Me elected, I do not pay: it is the money of the French";

he announced.

Before the arrival of the candidate, a member of his team had also taken down the European flag from the wall of the municipal hall, leaving only the French flag, had noted an AFP photographer.

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