National Rally candidate for the presidential election, Marine Le Pen, is making slight progress in voting intentions in the first round, according to our daily poll Ipsos Sopra Steria for franceinfo and Le Parisien/Today in France. The MP is credited with 17% of the voting intentions (+0.5 points) behind the outgoing President, Emmanuel Macron, at 30.5%. After Jean-Luc Mélenchon, at 13%, Éric Zemmour (10%, -1 point) and Valérie Pécresse (10%, stable) are now on an equal footing, according to our daily survey. Follow our live.
Le Pen criticizes government fuel rebate. “It’s a form of scam.” Guest of franceinfo, Marine Le Pen denounced the discount of 15 cents per liter introduced on all fuels by the government. The candidate of the National Rally for the presidential election proposes the “VAT cut to 5.5%” on energy. It would cost “12 billion euros: I assume them”she added.
Dominique Sopo denounces an “extremely racist atmosphere”. Coming to present the results of a survey of real estate agencies to see those who agree to take into account the discriminatory criteria of certain owners, the president of SOS Racisme denounced “an extremely racist atmosphere”less than three weeks before the first round. “We are talking about a ‘great replacement’ (…). Debates began a few weeks ago to find out whether or not Pétain had saved French Jews. It is totally astonishing”he lamented.
“We cannot, for ten years, ignore a debate,” insists Jacob. Guest of the “4 Truths” of France 2 Monday morning, the president of the Republicans Christian Jacob denounced the choice of Emmanuel Macron not to debate with the other candidates before the second round. “We cannot ignore the democratic debate. It is necessary to have this exchange, a confrontation, with Emmanuel Macron”he launched, considering that the debate had been evaded in 2017 by the configuration of the second round, which had opposed the candidate LREM to Marine Le Pen.