French presidential: at Marine Le Pen's HQ, "for us everything is fine"
Audio 01:30
National Rally candidate Marine Le Pen during her speech to her supporters after the first round of the presidential elections, April 10, 2022. AP - Lewis Joly
Text by: RFI Follow
2 mins
This is the remake of 2017. Emmanuel Macron will face Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election on April 24.
The strategy of the candidate of the National Rally so far: to make this second round an anti-Macron referendum.
Advertisement
Read more
With our special
correspondents ,
Julien Chavanne
and
Richard Riffonneau
As in 2017, Emmanuel Macron leads the first round of the presidential election, with a comfortable lead.
But the main thing is there.
Marine Le Pen has another chance to beat the outgoing president.
And his course of action is clear: try to rally the right and left opponents of the outgoing president.
“
All those who today did not vote for Emmanuel Macron are of course destined to join this rally.
Together, we are going to build this victory with enthusiasm and conviction to implement the great alternation that France needs and lead our great country into the third millennium
, ”launches the far-right candidate.
“
Honestly, we are very happy
”
The “Marine Présidente” cuvée champagne flows freely.
Festive evening for the National Rally which has come a long way.
The Zemmour threat is only a distant memory.
“
Honestly, we are very happy.
Our camp was very divided by Éric Zemmour at the very beginning of the campaign.
There was a last climb of Mélenchon recently which scared us.
But we were relatively quite confident.
We had doubts indeed, but it was.
The results confirmed this 'Marine in the second round'.
So, for us, everything is fine
, ”says an RN supporter.
Éric Zemmour and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan have called for Marine Le Pen to vote for the second round.
The battle plan until April 24 is already set.
Meetings at HQ on Monday, one meeting a week, commando trips, decided at the last moment according to current events.
And rest before the debate between the two rounds.
Marine Le Pen has learned the lessons of 2017.
► To read also: Presidential 2022: a second Macron-Le Pen duel very different from the first
... © FMM Graphic Studio
Newsletter
Receive all the international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_EN
France
French politics
Presidential France 2022
Marine Le Pen