Last meetings and last interventions in the media. Three days before the first round of the presidential election, the candidates follow interviews and meetings with activists. The Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire is the guest of “Presidential Mornings” on franceinfo. He will represent the president-candidate Emmanuel Macron, still a favorite in the voting intentions. Its main competitor, the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen, is invited on RTL. Anne Hidalgo (PS) will be on France 2, Valérie Pécresse (LR) on CNews, Nathalie Artaud (LO) on RFI and Fabien Roussel (PCF) on RMC/BFMTV. Follow our live.
Serial meetings Thursday evening. Yannick Jadot (EELV) in Nantes, Eric Zemmour (Reconquest) in Paris, Philippe Poutou (NPA) in Toulouse… The candidates go one last time to meet their activists and potential voters on Thursday evening.
The gap is closing between Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. According to our daily Ipsos-Sopra Steria barometer for franceinfo and Le Parisien-Today in FranceWednesday, the outgoing president Emmanuel Macron, stable, collects 27% of the voting intentions and is only ahead of Marine Le Pen by five points, (22%). Jean-Luc Mélenchon, still in third position, gains half a point and is now at 17%.
The Institut Montaigne scrutinizes the candidates’ budget forecasts. Beware of the risk of“unsustainability” of the French budgetary trajectory: the Institut Montaigne on Wednesday weighed the costing of the programs of the five candidates best placed in the race for the Elysée (Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Eric Zemmour, Valérie Pécresse), in a note written for The echoes.