Victor Chabert 6:23 a.m., April 20, 2022

This evening will take place the traditional second round debate which will oppose Emmanuel Macron to Marine Le Pen.

It will be broadcast live from 9 p.m.

An appointment which attracted more than 16 million viewers in 2017 and which is millimeter.

All details have been vetted by both sides with the TV crews for this second leg.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen clash this Wednesday during the traditional debate between the two rounds of the presidential finalists, from studio 5 of Lendit, in La Plaine-Saint-Denis, four days before the second round, Sunday April 24.

What topic will this meeting open?

Will the two candidates have headsets?

Will they be advised directly?

Europe 1 takes stock of the precise organization of this face-to-face.

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Marine Le Pen will open the ball

The draw has taken place.

It will be Marine Le Pen who will speak first this evening, on the subject of purchasing power.

It was one of the very strong points of negotiation between the two camps, which can benefit the RN candidate.

The audience is stronger at the start, and purchasing power is the key theme of Marine Le Pen's campaign.

Then will be discussed: pensions, the place of France in the world, immigration, security, the environment and youth.

The candidates will be face to face at a distance of 2m50, the journalists Léa Salamé and Gilles Bouleau in the background, on a table located four meters from them.

The studio temperature will be 19 degrees.

Technically too, everything is strictly regulated: the framing, but also the shots that the director can use.

There were big discussions on the cutting plans, these plans framed on the candidate who does not have the floor when the other intervenes.

Marine Le Pen's teams believe that these plans did it a disservice in 2017. The rules for using this framework have therefore been modified.

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Directors to ensure compliance with the technical regulations

The two candidates also have consulting directors, who will be in charge alongside the show's director.

They will be there to ensure that the negotiated technical regulations are respected.

On the side of Marine Le Pen, there will be Philippe Ballard, a former journalist, who knows the subject well.

And for Emmanuel Macron, it will be director Jérôme Revon, who directed Emmanuel Macron's meetings at La Défense Arena and Marseille.

Then, the main advisers of the candidates will be present.

For Marine Le Pen: the spokesperson for her campaign Laurent Jacobelli, her press officer Caroline Parmentier, her relatives Marie-Caroline Le Pen, Philippe Olivier, or even Renaud Labaye, her chief of staff…

On the Emmanuel Macron side, there will be, among others, the communicators Quitterie Lemasson and Clément Léonarduzzi.

But their role is really limited.

There is of course no interaction with the candidates during the debate.

The two finalists are of course not wearing a headset.