Presidential: last trips of Le Pen and Macron two days before the second round

Jacques Serais and Victor Chabert 7:47 p.m., April 22, 2022

D-2 before the second round of the presidential election.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen once again clashed from a distance before the verdict of the polls.

Emmanuel Macron was in Figeac and gave a first outdoor meeting.

The Head of State centered his speech on rurality.

Marine Le Pen, she went to meet her voters in her stronghold of Pas-de-Calais.  

"France is a bloc"

On the central square of this city, under the halls which usually houses the market.

Emmanuel Macron speaks directly to the inhabitants of this rural town.

"I was in Saint-Denis yesterday and I am here among you today in Figeac, and I hear in many political speeches, Frances that we would like to oppose, which would be irreconcilable and where we would ask to choose France is a block and it is made up of all this," he chants.  

"Nothing is played"

Without naming her, the candidate president targets his opponent in the second round: "We will not unite the country by promising everything and financing nothing".

And the outgoing president is developing his project for rural areas.

"We must reorganize our public services to put them closer to the ground, to have local public services", he defends.

"We must free and plan", insists the candidate president, who announces that he wants to help 20,000 young peasants to settle each year.

Emmanuel Macron throws his last strength into the battle: "Nothing is played to convince them. And April 24 will be the start of a new demanding era, of benevolence and ambition. But we will do it together".

This evening on LCP, the candidate president affirms that in the event of victory, his Prime Minister, Jean Castex, will remain in office next week and at least until May 1.

Marine Le Pen is still in the north of France.

She went to meet her constituents in Étaples, then in Berck.

An end to the campaign under the sign of proximity to the French. 

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"Macron or France?"

After visiting a medico-social center in Berck and chatting with caregivers, Marine Le Pen ended her day with a long stroll along the seaside, surrounded by activists who had come for the occasion, chaining selfies, hugs with little ones and big.

A little earlier in the day, on the market of the small town of Étaples, Marine Le Pen frontally attacks Emmanuel Macron, judging that with his pension reform, "the French will take life", before calling for a dam to the outgoing president.

“Everyone must understand that on Sunday there is a fundamental choice and that this choice is in the hands of the French. If the people vote, the people win. If the people move, they will vote, then they will obtain change he hopes. And the choice, it is simple, it is Macron or France, since he wanted to make this election a referendum. The question is this: Macron or France? RN. 

After 62 trips since last September, Marine Le Pen has therefore decided for this final day to end in her stronghold of Pas-de-Calais.

A way to conclude without risk on beautiful images.