It was a presidential campaign without debate, or almost. On television sets, candidates follow one another and confrontations are rare. Tuesday April 5, Emmanuel Macron, the outgoing president and until then favorite of the ballot, according to the polls, chose not to go, like his eleven competitors, to the set of the flagship program of the public service campaign. , “Elysée 2022”. Quite a symbol, for this campaign which struggled to exist.
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In this episode of the “L’Heure du Monde” podcast, Abel Mestre, journalist in the political service of the World, deciphers the springs of this campaign marked by a major disinterest of the French.
An episode produced by Adèle Ponticelli, directed by Amandine Robillard and presented by Jean-Guillaume Santi.
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