Less than 24 hours after the presidential debate between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, the president-candidate went to Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) to meet the inhabitants and provide a walkabout. The opportunity for the Head of State to reject the criticism of the RN candidate on her “arrogance” during the debate the day before.
“We had 2h30 of a debate which was respectful”, replied Emmanuel Macron to a journalist. “We had a lot of respect for each other, but [on se] combat” on two projects which are “not reconcilable”, he added.
Marine Le Pen said “everything and its opposite”
And “when there are no more arguments to oppose, we will look for others”, he continued, questioning the statements of RN officials since the end of the debate, at the like Jordan Bardella who described this morning an Emmanuel Macron “slumped in his chair, with the contemptuous and arrogant attitude that we know him. »
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“I had in front of me an Emmanuel Macron equal to himself, very contemptuous, very arrogant, including in his posture”, herself denounced Marine Le Pen, on the move in the Somme. “I am not the commentator either of my sentences or of my facial expressions,” replied the president from Saint-Denis.
Macron called for “a little more modesty”
In Saint-Denis, some residents present around Emmanuel Macron defended him. “You are not arrogant,” one man said. “Not at all,” added a woman. “Mr. Macron, don’t give up on us, don’t let her pass,” shouted another, referring to the far-right candidate.
Regretting to be forced to “choose between the plague and cholera” in the second round, a woman nevertheless called on him to “a little more modesty” and to put himself “at our level, because we don’t doesn’t seem like it.” “But I’m coming here,” he replied. “Yes, but at the last minute,” she said.
Welcomed by the socialist mayor Mathieu Hanotin, the LREM candidate spoke with associative actors of unsanitary housing and urban renewal. “Angry Saint-Denis, fed up with misery,” shouted a few people. “I have the will to change things, they are not moving fast enough,” he said. By going to Saint-Denis, the LREM candidate wanted to “send a message of ambition and consideration to all the neighborhoods”, “too often stigmatized”, whose “inhabitants are a chance for the Republic”.
During the five-year term, 132 million euros were released to renovate the downtown-Basilica district of Saint-Denis, a large popular city at the gates of Paris which voted mainly for the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round.