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THE ESSENTIAL

  • A week before the second round, nothing is decided between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, in an electric campaign where everyone is trying to unite beyond their camp.

  • On Saturday, the outgoing president mainly talked about ecology during a big meeting in Marseille.

  • Marine Le Pen is resting this Easter Sunday, without an appointment and with only one media recorded the day before: the program "Sunday in politics" on France 3.

  • The challenge of this second round is to convince the undecided and the abstainers, who in the first round were more than 26% of the population of voting age.

    In this respect, the televised debate on Wednesday evening between the two rivals will play a decisive role.

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9:07 am: Macron promises a five-year term focused on ecology

Emmanuel Macron was at a meeting in Marseille on Saturday.

While sending a few winks to the left, he mainly focused his speech on environmental issues.

The candidate president thus announced a government big bang with a prime minister now in charge of “ecological planning”.

“The policy that I will pursue in the next five years will be ecological or it will not be.

I want to put ecology at the heart of the new political paradigm,” he promised.

Our special correspondent on site, Rachel Garrat-Valcarcel, comes back for you on this meeting in the Marseille city:

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In Marseille, Emmanuel Macron seeks "the wow effect" on ecology

9:02 am: Jean Tirole judges Le Pen's program "concealing and unfunded"

In order not to see Marine Le Pen access the Elysée, Jean Tirole decided to sift through, in a column published on Saturday in

La Dépêche du Midi

, the economic proposals of the candidate.

And the finding of the French Nobel Prize winner in economics is severe: the program is, according to him, "concealing and unfunded" and "will permanently impoverish our country".

Moreover, according to the 2014 winner of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the 16 billion euros in savings that Marine Le Pen says she wants to make thanks to measures on immigration are "a calculation that is based on wind: all the studies show that immigrants cost almost nothing in terms of public money, because the social security contributions of those who work compensate for the costs charged to our social protection system".

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Nobel Prize winner Jean Tirole judges Marine Le Pen's program "concealing and unfunded"

Hello everyone !

One week before the second round, the editorial staff of

20 Minutes

continues to mobilize to give you the latest information from the campaign.

The two candidates still in the running, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, are increasing their trips and meetings.

Their objective ?

Encourage voters, especially those of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, to slip a ballot in their name on Sunday April 24.

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