French presidential election: Marine Le Pen returns to the field with her favorite themes
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Marine Le Pen leaves her campaign headquarters on April 11, 2022, determined not to give up an inch of ground to Emmanuel Macron.
AP - Francois Mori
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Arrived second in the first round of the French presidential election, the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen was this Monday, April 11 in Soucy, in Yonne.
A visit organized at the last moment so as not to leave the field open to Emmanuel Macron.
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It was around 12:30 p.m. when Thierry and Dominique Blanc received a phone call: would they agree to receive Marine Le Pen on their cereal farm?
The National Rally candidate landed five hours later, surrounded by a swarm of cameras.
The press was notified at the last moment, reports our special correspondent,
Julien Chavanne
.
For this first day of the between-two-rounds, Marine Le Pen's campaign team had initially planned a meeting in luxurious salons in the capital with his staff.
It was "
too Paris
", recognizes a team executive.
And even if Marine Le Pen refutes it, this change of program also appears as a response to Emmanuel Macron's trip to Denain, in Hauts-de-France.
“
I did not wait for Emmanuel Macron to campaign because otherwise I would never have started it,
she tackles, in reference to the late entry into the campaign of the president-candidate.
Let him go to Denain to see the consequences of five years of his policy, since it is one of the poorest towns in France, I hope he will come out of it with the awareness that his policy has made a lot of trouble.
»
Marine Le Pen walks in the mud alongside the couple, again and again with the subject of purchasing power and inflation.
“
We are facing a wall that the government was trying to reduce because we are in an election period, without saying what awaits us the day after the election.
Personally, I believe that the role of a leader is to hold a discourse of truth
,” she maintains.
Purchasing power and rurality: the campaign diptych of the first round will remain the guideline for the second.
“
We strike the iron while it is hot
”, explains a close friend of the candidate, determined to surf on a subject which has succeeded for him so far.
His campaign program will remain flexible, to leave no inch of ground to Emmanuel Macron.
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Presidential France 2022
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