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In 2017, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen already faced each other in the between-two-rounds. Both have learned lessons, and are preparing for the new duel, which will take place on Wednesday April 20.
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, who will debate on Wednesday April 20, do not wish to relive the same evening as in 2017, placed under the sign of tensions. Those close to Marine Le Pen admit it, five years later: their candidate was too aggressive. “We are here to defend a project, ideas, and to be President of the Republic”, comments Louis Aliot, mayor (RN) of Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales). Each will also try to avoid, for one, approximations, and for the other, condescension.
“It is not arrogance to question, at a moment as important as the presidential debate, to find out what is behind the cloak of banality behind which Marine Le Pen has draped herself since long weeks”, comments Christophe Castaner, president of the LREM group at the National Assembly. The mood should be relatively different in 2022. “I think they both decided to calm down, her to be competent, credible, (…) and he not to seem arrogant or professorial”analyzes Nathalie Saint-Cricq, political columnist at France Télévisions.