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08:39 : For Marine Le Pen, “Ihe veil is an Islamist uniform, it is not a Muslim uniform. It is the uniform of an ideology, not the uniform of a religion”assures the RN candidate on France Inter.
08:32 : .@MLP_officiel: “Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s behavior was for me a source of great astonishment: he was harder five years ago against a virtual Emmanuel Macron than on Sunday against a real Emmanuel Macron. He has more thought of him than of the French” #le79Inter #Elysee2022 https://t.co/llxxNo6nth
08:32 : “Jean-Luc Mélenchon was closer to Emmanuel Macron on Sunday evening than he was five years ago.”
Guest of the France Inter morning show this morning, Marine Le Pen believes that “Jean-Luc Mélenchon thought more of himself than of the French, thought more of his elected officials than of the voters”calling not to vote for her on Sunday evening. “IIt is already in the legislative”, believes the candidate of the RN. “It’s a betrayal on his part.” she assures.
08:23 : For Julien Odoul, spokesperson for the RN, Emmanuel Macron “reacts like a shopkeeper” mentioning the possibility of‘”to open the door” to a postponement of the retirement age to 64 years, instead of 65 years as he proposed until then. “He can see that this measure today is scary”analyzes the support of Marine Le Pen.
08:04 : With 4.78% of the vote in the first round, Valérie Pécresse is very far from the 20% achieved by François Fillon, the Republican candidate in 2017. Our journalist, Noé Baudoin, explains to you who the right-wing voters turned to this year.
07:51 : Guest of “4 Truths” on France 2, Jordan Bardella addresses the voters of Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “Will they vote for a candidate who proposes retirement at 65? (…) Who swept away the citizens’ initiative referendum? With Marine Le Pen, there will be no fakes”assures the president of the RN.
07:50 : For the acting president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, Emmanuel Macron “it’s everything and the opposite of everything“. He notes that the outgoing president moderates “his argument” on retirement at age 65 “approaching the second round”.
07:22 : The Midi Dispatch stresses that Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen have now “twelve days to convince” and that the candidates were already “in the field yesterday” : the first in Denain (North), where her rival came first in the first round, the second in Yonne, where she spoke a lot about purchasing power.
07:22 : “Red Nerves” title South Westwhich points out that “the political forces digest the defeat in pain”. The daily notes that Emmanuel Macron came first in the Bordeaux conurbation, followed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
07:14 : As for the regional dailies, The Republican East quotes in one the PS mayor of Nancy, Mathieu Klein, who believes that the Socialist Party “is dead”. “This failure is a collective failure”he added, moved.
07:09 : For The Parisian, abstentionists and Mélenchon voters will be “second round referees”. The daily also looks at the “SOS” launched yesterday by Valérie Pécresse. The Republican candidate made a “call for donations” for the “survival” Republican finances.
06:56 : The world talk about a second round “more uncertain”emphasizing that the situation “has changed drastically” compared to 2017, “with a reserve of votes for the far right and an outcome that promises to be tighter”.
06:47 : It’s time for the press review! Release made its front page on Emmanuel Macron’s between-two-rounds campaign, which began yesterday in Denain (North), with a “strategy of conquest of the left electorate”.
07:18 : We start with a point on the news:
Emmanuel Macron said he was ready last night, on the first day of the second round campaign, to “to open the door” a postponement of the retirement age to 64, rather than 65 as it appears in its programme, “if there is too much tension” and that it can “build consensus”. “I am ready to move the relationship to time and say that we do not necessarily make a reform until 2030 if I feel too much anxiety among people”, he declared in particular.
For her part, Marine Le Pen, who says she has been learning for five years, must speak to the media first in the morning on France Inter this morning and then in the evening, at “8 p.m.” on TF1. The RN candidate, who defends the maintenance of retirement at 62, wants to initiate a profound reform of the institutions, if she is elected president on April 24, by resorting in particular to the referendum and by registering the “national priority” in the Basic Law. This principle will “to the French only” to access certain social benefits, as detailed in its programme.
Russian forces are maintaining pressure on the strategic port city of Mariupol, which Ukrainian soldiers are desperate to defend, and in eastern Ukraine, where kyiv expects a major offensive shortly. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accuses Russia of having used chemical weapons in this city. The UK is trying to verify this information.
Nicolas Zepeda, who stubbornly denies murdering his Japanese ex-girlfriend Narumi Kurosaki, will today be set on his fatethe day after the requisitions of the Advocate General who claimed life imprisonment against him.