Sunday, April 10 will take place the first round of the presidential election. The two candidates who came first in the votes cast will qualify for the second round which will take place on April 24. But before this last electoral deadline, the two finalists will face each other during a televised debate where they will try to convince the French. An exercise that can turn out to be a real turning point for one or the other of the two participants. We remember particularly well the last debate organized in 2017 where Marine Le Pen, in a very offensive posture, tripped over the carpet and torpedoed her chances of victory.
Nathalie Saint-Cricq also remembers this evening perfectly. The France 2 journalist who moderated this debate between the two rounds alongside Christophe Jakubyszyn had a terrible time tempering two candidates very determined to fight it out. guest ofWe redo the TV on RTL this Saturday, April 9, the companion of Patrice Duhamel says: “In my case, the candidates really arrived at the last moment, that is to say one or two minutes before the antenna. They said hello… I tried to joke, it was a total failure!“, she explains.”And they looked at each other, they calculated each other. And we felt, all the same, that there was going to be sport. The gaze was not relaxed at all. Besides, there was an adviser who told me: ‘You’ll see, it’s going to be a butcher’s shop’. Me, my hands were sweating so much that I spent the evening with a Kleenex in my hand. And indeed, the butchery took place“, concluded the journalist from France 2.
According to the latest polls published in recent days, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are in a good position to once again find themselves in a position to debate before the second round on April 24. The outgoing president and the candidate of the National Rally currently have a comfortable lead over their pursuers according to the latest surveys.
Thibaud Cruz
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