last straight line for the candidates, one week before the first round

For franceinfo, journalist Jean-Christophe Galeazzi explains that the meeting of Valérie Pécresse in Paris, Sunday April 3, “looked like a last chance. Falling in the polls, she called on voters to revolt against scripts written in advance“. The Republican candidate reassured after her failed meeting in February and adopted an offensive tone.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for his part, benefits from a completely different dynamic and held a meeting “in Toulouse, place du Capitole, land of the left. The Popular Union candidate started the home stretch of his campaign in front of around 20,000 people. explains the journalist. There is much criticism of Emmanuel Macron, “a liberal who brings the private sector into the state“, referring to the controversy around the expensive consulting firms hired by the government. “He is well aware that his personality may displease part of the left-wing electorate, from whom he continues to demand an effective vote in the first round to send a left-wing candidate to the second round..”