Daily live. Two days before the first round of the presidential election and just over two months before the legislative elections, The world holds a live daily to follow these two campaigns and their many developments. Follow-up of candidates’ movements and speeches, analysis of their proposals, chats with journalists from the World and specialists…
On the menu, Friday April 8
Last day of campaign. For this last day of the official campaign, which ends Saturday at midnight, the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen (National Rally) is in Perpignan, while Valérie Pécresse, the candidate of the Les Républicains party for the presidential election, is expected to 10:45 a.m. in Cairanne (Vaucluse).
The environmental candidate, Yannick Jadot, goes to Lyon, while the communist, Fabien Roussel, organizes his “End of campaign apéroussel”, at noon, in Paris. The candidate of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, gives an appointment online from 7 a.m. to midnight, “for a giant multistream on several social networks with many participants”.
Appointment. We take stock of this unprecedented presidential campaign with our journalist Abel Mestre, at 3 p.m. Come and ask your questions a few hours before the first round.
In the post. Emmanuel Macron answers questions from journalists Rémy Buisine and Thomas Snégaroff, on Brut, at 19 ‘o clock. Before Valérie Pécresse, then the socialist candidate, Anne Hidalgo, are questioned during the TF1 newspaper from 8 p.m.
Meetings. Philippe Poutou, the candidate of the New Anti-Capitalist Party, is organizing his last rally in Grenoble at 7 p.m., while his Trotskyist comrade, the Lutte Ouvrière candidate, Nathalie Arthaud, invites his supporters to come and listen to him from 7 p.m. Rouen.
Our articles to deepen
A look back at a sluggish campaign in a crisis-ridden France
The secret dinner between Hidalgo and Hollande creates strong tensions within the Socialist Party
In Perpignan, Marine Le Pen urges her voters to vote for “a new era”
Have the polls always been wrong since 1995, as Eric Zemmour asserts?