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  • Outgoing President Emmanuel Macron would win in the second round of the presidential election against Marine Le Pen, with a score of 54% against 46% for the RN candidate, according to a BVA poll for RTL and Orange published this Friday.

  • Former President François Hollande called on Thursday "the French to vote for Emmanuel Macron" in the second round of the presidential election on April 24, in the name of "France's cohesion" and its "European future".

  • Marine Le Pen held a meeting Thursday in Avignon, calling on "patriots on the right, patriots on the left" to "block" Emmanuel Macron in the second round.

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8:08 am: Brigitte Macron not tired of the Elysee Palace

“On voting day, in Le Touquet, in 2017, a man told me: “you will suffer the curse of the Élysée!”

“says Brigitte Macron.

“But I didn't live what I was told, it's not hell”.

"Even if, of course, there are constraints (...) I am ready" to stay five more years in the event of victory on April 24, adds Emmanuel Macron's wife to AFP.

"She accepted and I thank her very much", welcomed the president-candidate at the beginning of April on RTL, acknowledging that this represented "a lot of sacrifices for the relatives".

7:55 a.m.: Nice Poutou with Pécresse

After Jean Lassalle, who wrote a check for €10 to help Valérie Pécresse repay her campaign, it's Philippe Poutou's turn to offer his help to candidate LR.

Since Monday, jokes about the call for donations from the president of the Ile-de-France region have been flourishing on Twitter.

To help my ex-colleague Pécresse who is facing major financial difficulties, linked to an overestimation of his abilities, if it can help him, I am willing to lend him my 308 for a few days.

— Philippe Poutou (@PhilippePoutou) April 13, 2022

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7:42 am: Robert Hue too

Former communist presidential candidate in 1995 and 2002 Robert Hue breaks his political silence to call for Emmanuel Macron to vote in the second round, as he says he did in the first round, as well as in 2017, in a statement forwarded to AFP.

"Abstention unequivocally entails the major risk of favoring the far right," he writes.

"Millions of French people who are on the left are they not today in a situation where the higher interest of France and of democracy calls - without denying themselves - to become aware of their responsibility by voting Emmanuel Macron?

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7:30 a.m.: François Hollande calls for a vote for Macron

"The main thing is France and its cohesion" and "its European future" while the RN candidate Marine Le Pen "would question our principles" and "our values", declared the former socialist leader, guest of the 20 Hours of TF1.

According to the former head of state, in power from 2012 to 2017, Marine Le Pen "plans to change a quarter of the French Constitution" on issues of "nationality, discrimination" and "identity".

In an allusion to the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon, François Hollande felt that "simply saying 'not a single voice for Marine Le Pen' is insufficient".

"Whatever the reluctance, anger and reservations that many may have, it is the Macron vote that allows Madame Le Pen not to win," insisted the former president, who often criticized the policy of his former minister.

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