Emmanuel Macron multiplies “the messages to address other voters” than his own

Monday April 11, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen were on the move, respectively in the North and in Yonne. The outgoing president was in Denain, a city rather favorable to his adversary. “We can see that he wanted to send a very strong message at the start of this campaign. He has multiplied the messages today to address voters other than those who voted for him on Sunday and indeed, we will to see without a doubt Emmanuel Macron wanting to multiply both the movements but also the symbols”analyzes Bruno Cautrès, political scientist at Cevipof and teacher at Sciences Po, on the set of 23 hours of Franceinfo.

Director General of the Foundation for Political Innovation and professor at Sciences Po, Dominique Reynié returns to the increasingly important place that purchasing power has taken in the presidential campaign, even more so with the current international crisis. “Faced with this kind of situation, I find that it does not allow Emmanuel Macron to have ideas that are so salient or so different from what Marine Le Pen can say. These are fairly similar speeches. Techniques are not everything exactly the same, but we are imagining compensation operations. We can index, we can reduce VAT, but basically, the tools available to deal with such a rise in the cost of living are very limited”he says.