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  • Emmanuel Macron is still given the lead with 27.5% of voting intentions in the first round, but the gap is closing with his far-right rival Marine Le Pen, which climbs to 22%, according to an Ifop-Fiducial poll published on Monday.

    Behind the leading duo, Jean-Luc Mélenchon rises to 15.5%.

    Then come Eric Zemmour and Valérie Pécresse, both at 10%. 

  • Five days before the first round, Jean-Luc Mélenchon held the last major meeting of his presidential campaign in Lille on Tuesday, multiplying in eleven other cities thanks to holograms. 

  • At 8 p.m., in Lyon, a campaign meeting of La République En Marche is expected in which Emmanuel Macron will not participate, the president-candidate will stick to one and only meeting. 

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07h50: Political program on France 2

Five days before the first round, France 2 is organizing the second round of its political

program Elysée 2022

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Five of the 12 candidates for the presidential election will participate in this program hosted by Léa Salamé and Laurent Guimier, this Tuesday at 9 p.m., indicated France 2: Anne Hidalgo (PS), Yannick Jadot (EELV), Valérie Pécresse (LR), Philippe Poutou (NPA) and Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!).

7:45 a.m.: “Finance” under the radar of the presidential election

Opponent of François Hollande during the 2012 campaign, "the world of finance" has, ten years later, almost disappeared from the speeches of the candidates for the presidential election.

And this despite the record profits made by banks in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis.

Between the promise to relax the conditions for obtaining real estate loans at Eric Zemmour or greater control and a tax increase for banks at Jean-Luc Mélenchon, several candidates have made proposals for the sector, but these are rarely put forward and figure little in the political debate.

The contrast with previous presidential campaigns is striking.

Compared to 2012 especially, when the candidate of the Socialist Party, François Hollande, designated "the world of finance" as his "adversary".

7:40 am: In New Caledonia, Pécresse promises "economic recovery and a strong state"

The LR candidate for the presidential election Valérie Pécresse undertakes to carry out "a massive recovery plan" in New Caledonia as well as a return of a "strong state" on the island if she is elected, indicated her spokesperson Florence Portelli at a public meeting in Nouméa.

“You need new economic development and your potential is huge.

Valérie Pécresse is proposing a massive recovery investment plan for New Caledonia”, launched Florence Portelli, less than a week before the first round.

The only representative of a candidate to have made the trip to New Caledonia at this stage, she also pleaded for the diversification of the local economy, which is highly dependent on the nickel mining industry.

07h35: Yannick Jadot in demonstration this Tuesday

The environmental candidate Yannick Jadot must participate in the demonstration of the accompanying persons of students with disabilities (AESH), which will begin at 1 p.m. in Paris, in front of the State Secretariat for Persons with Disabilities.

Hello and welcome everyone!

The first round of the presidential election is approaching and is only a few days away.

Emmanuel Macron is still given the lead with 27.5% of voting intentions in the first round, but the gap is closing with his far-right rival Marine Le Pen, which climbs to 22%, according to an Ifop-Fiducial poll published on Monday.

Behind the leading duo, Jean-Luc Mélenchon rises to 15.5% and aims to consolidate his revival with a meeting in Lille broadcast in hologram in eleven French cities.

Eric Zemmour and Valérie Pécresse are neck and neck, both at 10%.

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