Alexandre Chauveau, edited by Juline Garnier 1:58 p.m., April 18, 2022
The candidate of the National Rally continues the trips for her campaign between the two rounds.
In Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives, in Calvados, she is making her last stroll this Easter Monday to the applause of her voters, before the highly anticipated debate on Wednesday.
A last trip before the debate between the two rounds.
At the market of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives, in Calvados, Marine Le Pen was welcomed as a popular icon by the inhabitants and activists of the National Rally, all under a cloud of cameras.
All this, despite the presence of militants of the Republic on the march who made themselves heard.
The RN candidate, as usual, chained selfies, took photos with children in her arms and signed posters with her likeness.
Here, on conquered ground, she won 35% of the votes in the first round of the presidential election.
The opportunity for her to present herself again as the "small" candidate facing the "big ones", as during this exchange with the mayor of the village: "I want to make a large ministry of rurality, a ministry which will be transversal and who will also be in charge of the strategic regional planning policy that I want to put in place to rebalance the territories", she suggests.
The debate between the two towers in the line of sight
"Because today, the metropolises are sucking everything up and in reality, in the territories, it is the desert that is settling in and I don't want the desert to be settling in" , she adds.
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A last trip therefore, before the debate between two rounds, Wednesday, against Emmanuel Macron.
This will take the form of revenge for Marine Le Pen, who missed this test five years ago.
A debate above all necessary, according to the candidate, and which she hopes will hold up well against the outgoing president.
"Not the same vision as Emmanuel Macron"
“It is a democratic requirement. There is a confrontation of ideas. We do not have the same ideas as Emmanuel Macron at all, we do not have the same vision of society at all. not at all the same vision of the country, nor the same vision moreover of what the economy should be, towards whom it should be turned”, details Marine Le Pen.
"This is what must emerge from the debate. So I hope it will not be what I have been hearing for a week now, that is to say a succession of invectives", she concludes.
"Emmanuel Macron would never come here. There is no landing strip for his jet. It's not posh enough for him here", mocks a resident present at the market.
Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives, a town that serves as an example of the fractures that run through society, embodied by the duel between the two finalists.