French presidential: in Avignon, Le Pen unfolds his second round strategy

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, center, sings the national anthem after a meeting in Avignon, southern France, Thursday, April 14, 2022. AP - Daniel Cole

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Marine Le Pen was this Thursday, April 14 in Avignon, in front of 4 to 5,000 supporters for the first of her two meetings between the two tours.

Under the fire of Emmanuel Macron's attacks since the result of the first round, and their qualification for this duel, the candidate of the National Rally responded using the same recipes.

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With our special correspondent in Avignon,

It is a lesson in order addressed to the outgoing head of state, accused of " 

".

In Avignon on Thursday evening, Marine Le Pen lectures her rival.

Macron seems to want to escape it by getting bogged down in insulting remarks or remote-controlled anathemas.

I say this with seriousness: a presidential candidate in the second round should not behave like this.

Same judo take on the Republican front: Emmanuel Macron calls to block against it?

Marine Le Pen takes up the expression on her own.

If the French have to block it, it is on the return of Emmanuel Macron!

To block a new five-year period of social desolation and national deconstruction.

The sign of a power that is afraid, according to the candidate: "

 ," she says.

Feverish, some at the RN are too.

The vote reports of the voters of Eric Zemmour are down and the electorate of Jean-Luc Mélenchon still disputed between the two finalists and the blank vote.

The candidate of the National Rally tries the big electoral gap to collect the most votes: a hand extended to the voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, with his measures for purchasing power, and another in the direction of his traditional camp.

In Avignon, the candidate of La France insoumise came first in the first round, but it was she who dominated the race in the Vaucluse department.

Marine #LePen begins her first meeting between two towers in #Avignon in front of 4000 supporters.

Here JL #Melenchon came out on top in the 1st round but the candidate dominates at the department level.

Electoral geography in the image of its tragedy until the second round @RFI pic.twitter.com/4Yf8QP1laJ

— Julien Chavanne (@julien_chavanne) April 14, 2022

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