It’s the last straight line. The presidential campaign officially begins on Monday, March 28, less than two weeks before the first round. Dand new rules now apply, in particular the strict equality of the speaking time of the candidates, to frame the election. Several meetings took place during the weekend, in particular those of the “rebellious” candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Eric Zemmour, a sequence of which sparked controversy. Follow our live.
Philippe Poutou guest of “Presidential Mornings” on franceinfo. The candidate of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) will be interviewed on franceinfo from 8:30 a.m. According to the latest polls, Philippe Poutou is between 1% and 2% of voting intentions.
Yannick Jadot invites to “turn the table” at the biggest meeting of ecology. The Greens candidate violently attacked Emmanuel Macron and the lobbies on Sunday, inviting “overturn the table” 15 days before the first round, during its meeting at the Zenith in Paris, the biggest in the history of French ecology. The objective was to “make number”for a party that does not have a militant culture of large gatherings.
Conviction of the “Macron assassin” chanted by part of the crowd at Eric Zemmour’s meeting. The LR presidential candidate, Valérie Pécresse, and the boss of the LREM deputies, Christophe Castaner, criticized the far-right candidate on Sunday for having let the crowd chant “Macron Murderer” during his meeting in Paris, without intervening. The candidate brought together several thousand people at the Trocadéro.
Fabien Roussel wants the Medef to stop “dictating the policy of France”. The communist presidential candidate proposed Sunday during a meeting in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) that “cigars change mouths” and that the Medef stops “to dictate the policy of France”. Much applauded by the approximately 2,000 people present, according to his team, he also proposed to put “under public control” for-profit nursing homes.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon warns against a “low-cost second round” between Macron and Le Pen. In front of several thousand people gathered on the Prado beach, in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), the candidate La France insoumise (LFI) was satisfied on Sunday with his polling dynamic, which brings him between 12.5 and 15% , a few points behind Marine Le Pen. “This time, you feel like me, we don’t know why, all of a sudden we said to ourselves: ‘We’re going to get there, from all sides'”exclaimed Jean-Luc Mélenchon.