as the vote approached, several candidates held a meeting on Saturday April 2

On Saturday April 2, Emmanuel Macron’s first campaign meeting took place at La Défense Arena in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), in front of “30,000 people”announces the journalist Jean-Christophe Galeazzi on the set of the 23 Hours of franceinfo. “A way to relaunch his campaign after a week parasitized in particular by the controversy over the McKinsey cabinet”, he explains. The President of the Republic must “to succeed in the perilous exercise of defending his balance sheet but also of training the French with a new project. He notably pressed on his left at the start of his speech: purchasing power, education and health, but without always forgetting the famous ‘ at the same time’ by recalling that in his project, it will also be necessary to work more in particular with his pension reform. And there clearly, that speaks to the right-wing electorate”analyzes the journalist.

Other candidates held important meetings on Saturday as the first round approached. Jean-Christophe Galeazzi evokes “the public meeting of the Trotskyist Philippe Poutou which was held at the Cirque d’Hiver in Paris”. Fabien Roussel himself went on stage in Villeurbanne, near Lyon (Rhône). “He notably attacked the 100 billion euros which, according to him, are missing from the state coffers due to tax evasion by large companies and the richest”reports the journalist.