To succeed in the campaign between the two rounds of the presidential election, you have to tick two boxes: go convince on the ground and go convince all the other French people on television. Emmanuel Macron is therefore increasing his travels – the president-candidate is going to Le Havre on Thursday April 14, the third foray into the region since the first round – and is preparing the televised debate which will oppose him to Marine Le Pen, Wednesday April 20.
“It’s going to be extremely tight”, fears a counselor. “If we draw, the suspense will be Very important”. So for “outperform” as this member of the campaign team says, “a great preparation” is planned with the help of a few ministers. From Monday, Emmanuel Macron will surround himself with his inner circle without necessarily isolating himself in the green as the candidate of the National Rally intends to do. Rehearsal sessions on the program with notes, response sheets, arguments.
The objective is to get Marine Le Pen on the merits. The candidate’s team has dissected its program to identify its flaws. Turnkey arguments that Emmanuel Macron intends to use during the debate to directly deconstruct the image of a candidate for purchasing power that the boss of the RN intends to embody. No question of attacking the person of Marine Le Pen, only his proposals. It is the posture that is at stake in this debate, analyzes a member of the executive.
“If Emmanuel Macron is aggressive, he will be accused of misogyny”.
A member of the executiveat franceinfo
The presidential candidate will remain on the facts assures franceinfo a framework of the campaign and will say “things precisely quite calmly”, he who is so often accused of arrogance.
While the National Rally candidate intends to make this second round a referendum “for or against” Emmanue Macron, the outgoing president hopes to bring back the voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Yannick Jadot. It is on the left that the reserves of votes are found, with many undecided. Nearly one in two Melenchonist sympathizers do not yet know who to vote for on Sunday April 24, according to our Ipsos-Sopra barometer Steria for franceinfo and Le Parisien-Today in Franceone out of three on the Yannick Yadot side.
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