Marine Le Pen, the presidential candidate, has invited all who did not vote in favor of Emmanuel Macron to come out and support her during the upcoming runoff vote. This will help her to win the presidency.
According to Le Parisien, Marine Le Pen stated that “Those who didn’t vote for Macron will be destined to join us, I count upon all French voters,”
She said, “We’re very close. I could win this presidency election,”
Le Pen and Macron will be facing off on the 24th April 2022.
Two weeks from now, the election will be a replay of 2017. Macron won the runoff in 2017 and Macron is expected to win again.
Rassemblement National (RN) presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is set for a rematch against French president Emmanuel Macron on April 24 with only a handful of percentage points between them
Le Pen has been softening her image in the years since 2017, attempting to persuade voters she is no longer the ‘big bad wolf of politics’. This message was directed at workers disenfranchised and more susceptible to being affected by the rising cost of living, an issue that has increased in recent years after Macron’s election in light of the Covid-19 epidemic.
Jean-Luc Melenchon narrowly edging Marine Le Pen in the initial round of voting
Marcon, head of the La Republique en Marche party, has also been reaching out to disenfranchised workers, pictured here on a construction site during a one-day campaign visit in Hauts-de-France region
The blue-collar battleground: Macron will start his campaign for the second round visiting former mining heartlands in Le Pen’s industrial heartlands of northern France
Le Pen was seen in villages and towns visiting the markets, promoting the idea that Macron has split France, but she has the power to unify it.
Many losing candidates advised their supporters not support Le Pen in round two, including Jean-Luc Melenchon (far-left leader), but the populist message of her populist message, focusing on the crisis at the cost-of-living, is resonating across political lines.
According to her, she’s not the “big, bad, wolf” of politics and is trying to be a uniting and benign figure by taking selfies with teenagers in headscarves and posting photos of her Bengal cat pets.
A March Ifop survey showed that less than half of French found her scary.
Marine Le Pen, sitting beside Jordan Bardella, was smiling after she secured the second-most votes in today’s French election.
Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Hauts de France, in the northern part of France to carry on his campaign for today’s elections
On Sunday she spoke out describing herself as a uniting figure that would fix France’s fractures and stop the chaos attributed to Macron. Macron is a former banker she stated that embodied the money-power and was only interested in the few.
This is far from the fiery performance she gave in last year’s elections. She made many high-profile mistakes and learned from them to downplay her relationship with Vladimir Putin while strongly condemning his invasion in Ukraine.
Brice Teinturier, a pollster from Ipsos, found last week that people expect a better situation in the country and their personal lives if Le Pen is elected as opposed to Macron.
Both are equally trustworthy on the crisis of cost-of-living. 19% would vote to prevent Macron from winning in the second round. This is a clear indication that the people don’t like the president.
Macron will visit former mining centers in Le Pen’s industrial corelands of northern France to begin his second-round campaign. It is an indication that the blue collar workforce will play a significant role in any election.
Now, with 12 candidates eliminated from the initial round of voting, they will need to appeal to approximately 50% of those voters who prefer other choices.
In the past, voters from both left and right have united in opposition to the far right at all levels of elections, including those held at regional, national and municipal level. This phenomenon is known as a “republicainfront”.
All mainstream candidates including the Socialist Party and the conservative Les Republicains endorsed Macron in the runoff. However, their votes are not likely to be followed.
Their low single-digit scores are so deplorable that they may not have received much support.
Analysts predict that there will be a split in the left-wing vote, with one-third voting to Macron, another to Le Pen, and another third refusing to vote.
Le Pen-Macron is back in head-tohead. The 2017 election result was 24.01 percent for Macron and 21.03% for Le Pen.
Le Pen was then defeated by Macron with an overwhelming 66% in round 2.
Experts predict that this election will see voters feeling disillusioned by the president’s pro-European and globalist policies over five years. Le Pen is hoping to unify voters through her anti-Macron message.
Le Pen takes a photo with his supporters at a Perpignan campaign rally last week
National Rally leader, who shared photos of her pets with supporters in the election has softened her image.
The real discussion now is between the two sides of globalism: one on the right and the other on national identity.
Marine assumed the leadership of the Front National from Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2011, and has continued to try and ‘de-monise’ this party, which is often criticized for being racist and associated mit Holocaust denial.
Since then, it has been rebranded National Rally. In 2015 Marine expelled Jean-Marie from the party that he founded in 1970s. He was known for his belief in Holocaust as ‘detail’ in World War II.
Jean-Marie expressed his support by congratulating his daughter for a remarkable campaign, which he believed would lead to her victory in the elections.
Her campaign this election has been quiet and professional, with no major gaffes. In fact, she appears more presidential than Eric Zemmour who was controversially elected as a commentator. Zemmour received seven percent of votes.
However, she was hit hard in January by Marion Marechal, her niece, who is considered to be a possible successor to Zemmour.
Marine’s emotion on television, in which she described Marion’s birth as a baby, saw her poll numbers increase while Zemmour fell.
Macron, who was a former finance minister will target Le Pen’s economy programme. She had previously promised to reduce the retirement age from 60 to 60 and scrap the income tax for those under 30.
Marine succeeded Jean-Marie Le Pen as the leader of Front National (photos together).
Even though France is growing anti-European, the current president supports EU policy.
Although Le Pen is now open to renouncing her previous pledges to quit the EU and euro, many of her voters still want to see her pursue an isolationist European strategy and cut French budget contribution to the bloc.
Le Pen received 33 percent of votes from the Hauts-de-France industrial region.
In the region, 27-28 percent of votes went to left-leaning candidates. It will play a major role in the outcome of the second-round vote.
Her focus on cost-of living has enabled her to reach a large discontent with rulers, as she has visited towns and villages all over France.
She stated that voters had to choose between two visions of France. One was one of injustice, disorder, and division imposed by Emmanuel Macron, for the benefit only a few. The other is a gathering of French citizens around the principles of social justice and protection.
Today’s defeated candidates included Valerie Pecresse, of conservative Republicans and Anne Hidalgo of the Socialists. They immediately advised their voters that they would support Mr Macron.
Common for French voters to join a so called ‘Republican Front’ if an extremist candidate wins the second round.
Left-wing candidate Melenchon came close to pipping Le Pen on Sunday, with 22.2 per cent of the vote – just 1.2 per cent behind Le Pen.
Melenchon also advised his supporters to vote for Ms Le Pen during the next round.