what are the pitfalls that Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen will have to avoid during the great debate?

During the debate between the two rounds which will oppose Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen on Wednesday April 20, eight themes should be addressed, including purchasing power, ecology and immigration. What are the pitfalls to avoid for both? “For Emmanuel Macron, there are at least two pitfalls: first, that of arrogance. Each time an outgoing president has taken part in a debate between two rounds, he has had this little flaw that we have noted each time, that of the teacher who lectures his student“, explains the journalist Julien Nény, live on the set of the 8 Hours of France 2. For the latter, “the second possible pitfall is like for athletes: that of breakdown due to a lack of warm-up“.”It’s been five years, an eternity in politics, that Emmanuel Macron has not participated in an exercise as perilous as this“, adds Julien Nény.

As far as Marine Le Pen is concerned, the candidate should not “repeat all the mistakes that had partly caused his sinking at the 2017 debate“, says the journalist. “First mistake, she got the message wrong. Five years ago, she spent most of her time attacking Emmanuel Macron’s project. It had immediately put her in the position of opponent, and not of president“, analyzes the journalist from France Télévisions. The second error of the candidate of the National Rally was “overflow of aggression“. “She had been very aggressive, even caricatural, which had greatly degraded her presidential status and her credibility.”