A feeling of deja vu. Five years later, nothing has changed. In any case, this is what a large part of the French say to themselves the day after Emmanuel Macron’s victory over Marine Le Pen in the 2022 presidential election. Indeed, despite the Yellow Vests crisis, the Covid pandemic -19 and the vaccine pass, the pension bill… The one who officiated at the Elysée since 2017 and who was strongly criticized, finally won over 58% of French people.
58% of the country voted for him, or rather, against Marine Le Pen and the far right. But in the end, what did the candidate of the National Gathering to get the upper hand over his opponent? While everyone thought she had worked on her flaws from five years ago and that this time she was leaving with a nice advantage against Emmanuel Macron, she was once again unable to to seduce the majority.
The reasons for failure
Bernard Sananès, president of the Elabe study institute, present on the set of C to you this Monday, April 25, indicated what caused the defeat of the candidate RN. “There was, among many voters, in particular left-wing voters, a Republican vote, which was against Marine Le Pen. For two reasons”he explains at first before specifying: “The first is that Marine Le Pen had a very good campaign in the first round, but between the two rounds, for a large number of voters, Marine became ‘Le Pen’ again”.
For the president of the Elabe research institute, it is precisely this point which caused the loss of Marine Le Pen in addition to her performance during the debate between the two rounds: “And the second is what happened during the debate. When we dissect it, we see sequence after sequence that on the proposals, on the findings, Marine Le Pen is often supported. But as soon as we pass on the solution comes up against the question of competence. And finally, doubt about competence has taken precedence over Emmanuel Macron’s lack of arrogance”. Bernard Sananès continues by giving striking examples: “Each time Marine Le Pen put forward an observation, a solution, she came up against the question of the financing of competence. And this barrier of competence, despite the fact that she has made progress on many subjects, this doubt about competence n failed to be lifted by Marine Le Pen. For me, this is the main reason for its failure”.
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