list of candidates, 600,000 leaflets, meeting on May 7… The presidential majority puts itself “in battle order”

The presidential camp wants to make Europe Day, which will take place on May 9, an important moment in its campaign. Leaflets will be distributed “everywhere in France”.

With less than six weeks before the European elections, the presidential majority is shifting into high gear. The composition of the list led by Valérie Hayer will be announced Friday May 3, “during a seminar at campaign HQ”, Franceinfo learned from Renaissance. Monday May 6, the project will be revealed, before a “national meeting” the next day at the Maison de la Mutualité, in Paris. “We had set the objective of being in battle order by May 9”underlines the same source.

Until then, a “first campaign committee around the Prime Minister and Valérie Hayer” will take place on Tuesday. Government heavyweights are invited, such as Bruno Le Maire, Gérald Darmanin and Rachida Dati, franceinfo learned from consistent sources. It will be a “important moment” whose objective is to “tighten the political system and lead the battle”, underlines Renaissance. This committee will then meet every Monday until June 9, the date of the election.

“Vote certainties are very fragile”

For the moment, the battle is off to a bad start: Valérie Hayer may be second in the polls, but she is far behind Jordan Bardella, who wears the colors of the National Rally. On the other hand, the gap is narrowing with the third according to the polls, Raphaël Glucksmann, who leads the socialist list. The presidential party is reassured: the “voting certainties are very fragile”, “the opinion is not quite there” at this stage and voters will make their choice in the “three-four weeks” before the vote.

The Macronist camp wants to make Europe Day, May 9, a month before the election, an important moment in its campaign. On this occasion, leaflets will be distributed “everywhere in France”, indicates Renaissance. The campaign leaflet will be printed at “600 000 copies”and the campaign poster at “220 000″.

Regional meetings are also planned. One takes place in Toulouse on Monday evening. Other public meetings will follow: May 13 in Lyon, May 18 in Strasbourg, June 5 in Lorient, June 6 in Nice. Two meetings in the West are also planned.