for the second round, Marine Le Pen “does not negotiate anything” and does not run after rallies at all costs

Calls for the rally, outstretched hands, at Éric Zemmour in particular, some are hoping for signs from Marine Le Pen: they will have to wait! “Zemmour is 7 points, but it’s also a drag”said an elected National Rally, the day after the first round of the presidential election, which saw Marine Le Pen qualify with 23.15% of the vote.

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No question of frightening left-wing voters, even less of proving Emmanuel Macron right who had spoken of a “far-right tandem” Le Pen / Zemmour. The candidate therefore appeals, but not to the elected officials. “I appeal to all voters, whoever they are and whatever their first-round choice, declared Marine Le Pen, traveling on Monday April 11 to a farm in Thorigny-sur-Oreuse in Yonne, for her first campaign trip in the second round. The RN candidate is however still looking for support: Éric Zemmour and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan are the only candidates to have called to vote for her on April 24.

No negotiation on the merits either to be expected, so as not to repeat the error of 2017 with an amended program to obtain the support of Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. Marine Le Pen does not want to be vampirized by outside arrivals. For this second-round campaign which is beginning, there is no question of abandoning the key theme of purchasing power. “I do not negotiate anything. I have a project and my project is coherent”, assures Marine Le Pen. As a remote response to Emmanuel Macron: during his trip to Pas-de-Calais on Monday April 11, the president and candidate for his re-election thus said he was ready to “move” on the pension reform and “to open the door“a postponement of the retirement age to 64, rather than 65,”if there is too much tension” and “it can build consensus“.

“I will continue as I did before the first round.”

Marine Le Pen

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Around the candidate, we rather hope for calls to vote for her unconditionally, this could be the case for certain elected LRs, we hope. Otherwise Marine Le Pen risks appearing alone against Emmanuel Macron.