The Macron-Le Pen debate and the risk of the far right… Gabriel Attal’s “Presidential Morning”

Gabriel Attal was the guest of 8:30 franceinfo Thursday 21 april 2022. The government spokesperson answered questions from Marc Fauvelle and Salhia Brakhlia, the day after the second round debate between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron.

Presidential debate: Marine Le Pen “has not changed in substance”

For the government spokesperson, since 2017, Marine Le Pen “may have changed in tone, but has not changed in substance” in the debate between the two rounds between the two candidates for the Elysée. Marine Le Pen “still has plans to leave the European Union, even if she says the oppositecriticizes Gabriel Attal. She still has an unfunded project, even if she says the opposite, and then still a project to divide the French, even if she says she wants to bring them together.

Presidential: “The country plays very big” in the second round

“You have to remember, there is only one face that will appear on screen this Sunday, and it could be the face of the far right, so you have to be careful”indicates Gabriel Attal, who estimates that in the second round on Sunday April 24 “the country plays very big”. The government spokesperson fears a scenario similar to the Brexit vote: “I remember many Britons who, a few days before the vote, said to themselves ‘it is done‘. Three days later, at the time of the vote, they realized that Brexit had won.”