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“I discovered something: the Guronsan! laughs Marine Le Pen. It was a week ago, questioned on the sidelines of their interview by the readers of Le Parisien, the candidate RN reveals her latest find – this cocktail of vitamin C and caffeine – to compensate for the slack of a necessarily exhausting campaign .
Fatigue management is both a central and banal element for any presidential candidate, but it takes on an even more important character for the Frontist heiress. It is that she keeps a trauma from the previous campaign: the resounding sinking of her second round debate against Emmanuel Macron, for which she partly blamed her physical state at the time. “We were at the end of the campaign, we did not have the experience of a second round in the presidential election (…) I was myself, very tired”, she admitted at the end of 2018, guest of a program by Thierry Ardisson.
“I crossed this countryside with a form of serenity”
“I arrive on the eve of the first round in good shape. This was not at all the case five years ago,” says Le Pen today. “The campaign has adapted to the pace of the candidate,” she continues. As much as possible, the evenings are freed up to let her rest, because her internal alarm clock rings systematically at the stroke of 5 o’clock. “I went through this campaign with a form of serenity: never anything to do in stress, at the last moment”, still assures the candidate, according to whom the substantive work carried out over the past five years would allow her to avoid any improvisation, any last minute energy-consuming cramming. “Ask her any question: she is ready,” boasts her special adviser, Philippe Olivier.
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“She no longer has to manage the RN (she handed over the reins to Jordan Bardella, acting volunteer president since the start of the school year), nor to manage conflicts. The team is more homogeneous, you no longer have Philippot tearing himself apart with Marion (Marshal) “, also argues a campaign executive. “His agenda is managed more intelligently than five years ago,” swears his sister Marie-Caroline Le Pen, precious aide-de-camp throughout the campaign.
In 2017, the agenda was overloaded the day before the debate between two rounds. “There, it is no longer likely to happen! the sister swears again. If she still reaches the second round, she will allow herself three days to “rest and prepare”. It is not said that that is enough, but fatigue cannot, in any case, serve as an excuse.