To "block the return of Emmanuel Macron", the only chance of victory for Marine Le Pen?

Ugo Pascolo 9:00 p.m., April 14, 2022

ANALYSIS

"On April 24, if the French have to block it, it's when Emmanuel Macron returns."

During her first meeting between the two towers in Avignon, Marine Le Pen took the opposite view of the Republican front.

While many unsuccessful candidates in the first round of the presidential election have called for "blocking the far right", the candidate of the National Rally has chosen to use the expression.

"The trap in which this campaign has locked itself"

In her tirade, she continues in the form of anaphora, like François Hollande in his time: "We must block the collapse of the purchasing power of the French, block tax hype, block retirement at 64 or 65 years, to block judicial laxity […], to block immigration which jeopardizes the balance of our social systems […], to block a new five-year term of social desolation and national deconstruction.”

Marine Le Pen: "On April 24, if the French have to block it, it's on the return of Emmanuel Macron" #presidentielles2022pic.twitter.com/RyeBxeqhr0

– Europe 1 (@Europe1) April 14, 2022

A moment intended to mark the spirits and to convince the undecided, which nevertheless "puts the finger on the trap in which this campaign has locked itself with a second round which would be a vote against Marine Le Pen, or against Emmanuel Macron", judges at the microphone of Europe 1 the essayist Gilles Mentré.

A “risk” taken by the RN candidate, because a “presidential election is an election for membership on [a] program and not an election against. And this is a criticism which is obviously also valid for Emmanuel Macron. "

The maxim saying that in the first round we choose and that in the second we eliminate, would therefore not apply during this ballot, according to Gilles Mentré.

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"Maybe his only chance to win"

Gathering by calling to block Emmanuel Macron is "perhaps [the] only chance to win" for Marine Le Pen, analyzes for his part Alexandre Devecchio, journalist at

.

"She is late, she has been demonized and Emmanuel Macron's strategy is to hold a referendum against Marine Le Pen. That was what happened five years ago."

A strategy that had borne fruit, and that Marine Le Pen is therefore trying to turn against her opponent.

If "she manages to make this election an anti-Macron referendum, she has a chance of winning."

Because beyond Emmanuel Macron's advantageous score in the first round, 27.8% against 23.1%, "he arouses little enthusiasm, even real hatred in part of the population", argues Alexandre Devecchio.

"So if the stakes no longer become 'get rid of Emmanuel Macron', she can win."