Xavier Bertrand offers Emmanuel Macron four debates, with his main opponents

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2:56 p.m. : Jean-Luc Mélenchon also criticizes Emmanuel Macron’s communication about the negotiations on the war in Ukraine. “The shot of the photo in front of the phone, Kennedy did it before him”, launched the candidate.

2:54 p.m. : During a press conference, Jean-Luc Mélenchon asks the opposition to challenge the government on the war in Ukraine. “A man currently has full powers in France (…) It’s not a healthy situation (…) we have to debate”, defended the presidential candidate. The member of the insubordinate France wishes to know how France negotiates and what it proposes, that all is not only decided within the council of defense.

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2:44 p.m. : In a Mediapart investigation, eight women accuse Eric Zemmour, far-right presidential candidate, of “problematic behavior” and of sexual assault”. Here’s what we know about those charges.

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1:59 p.m. : Xavier Bertrand, who came fourth in the LR primary, also reacted to Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to abolish the audiovisual license fee. “If Mr. Macron thinks that 12 euros per month will make the mesh to solve the problems of purchasing power, he is wrongsaid the president of the Hauts-de-France region on RTL. We will have to find another form of multi-year recipe [pour le secteur de la création audiovisuelle].“

1:59 p.m. : After Emmanuel Macron, the LR candidate for the presidential election, Valérie Pécresse, spoke again about the audiovisual license fee. She evokes “a tax that has had its day, which is obsolete, in its mode of collection and in its base”. “We will have to secure the budget for audiovisual creation in France, with a multi-annual law”, she added this morning on BFM TV.

10:49 : “You have to have a useful president, not just a useful vote”.

François Hollande, for his part, ruled out supporting Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The candidate of La France insoumise stands out from the rest of the left in the polls and that Ségolène Royal, in particular, has called for “useful vote” for him. “It would not be useful to have a president who would come out of the Atlantic alliance”considered in particular the former President of the Republic on France Inter.

10:15 a.m. : “Nicolas Sarkozy is free to choose. Me, today, I believe that I defend politics, the convictions which are his”.

One month before the first round, Nicolas Sarkozy has still not taken a position on the presidential election, nor supported the candidate of his former party, Valérie Pécresse. “I trace my path”replied the latter, questioned about it on RMC and BFMTV. She no longer seems to expect help from the last president from her political family.

09:25 : “I want to understand that a debate at 12 is certainly not easy. But today there are three or four candidates who can be in the second round and who stand. Why not accept a debate with each candidates?”

Xavier Bertrand, who now participates in Valérie Pécresse’s campaign, criticizes Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to participate in debates before the first round. On RTLit proposes the organization of four face-to-face meetings with the best-placed outsiders.

09:17 : In 2017, Emmanuel Macron was elected in particular on the promise of a “new world” political, more morally exemplary, more participatory, more open to civil society. Five years later, has this ambition materialized? Our journalist Thibaud Le Meneec draws up a mixed picture.