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The strong progress of Emmanuel Macron in the polls weakens Valérie Pécresse, who is holding a meeting this evening, Saturday March 5, in Metz (Moselle). The Republican candidate will try to relaunch an increasingly difficult campaign there, in an unfavorable war context.
Times are tough for Valérie Pécresse. “The LR candidate relied heavily on the entry into the campaign of Emmanuel Macron to try to mark his difference, to pound the candidate’s record, and also to try to challenge him the moderate right-wing electorate“, explains the journalist Julien Nenylive from the candidate’s meeting in Metz (Moselle), Saturday March 5.
A strategy defeated by the war in Ukraine. “Valérie Pécresse suffers even more than the other candidates in this presidential election from a phenomenon well known to pollsters, which is called the flag effect, that is to say a clear revival of public support for the president in place in times of crisis, and a fortiori in times of war”continues the journalist. What to put a blow to the morale of the Republicans. To continue to believe in the second round, Valérie Pécresse is counting a lot on the televised debates to come.