Every day counts. Monday April 11, the first images of the campaign between the two towers, broadcast on BFM-TV, showed on the one hand Emmanuel Macron in the middle of a crowd, in Hauts-de-France, on the electoral lands of National Rally (RN); on the other, Marine Le Pen caulked in a room of her HQ, in the 16e arrondissement in Paris, chairing a campaign meeting in a small committee. It was time for the far-right candidate to throw off her initial program: direction Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, in the afternoon, for a first improvised trip with microphones and cameras.
Two hours later, here she is, facing a pack of journalists jostling to collect her word, even if it means forcing the line: “I like mud. » The MP for Pas-de-Calais is on a cereal farm, in Soucy (Yonne), on a bucolic estate of 250 hectares, where she explains representing “the France of the forgotten”, accompanied by Julien Odoul, regional councilor and campaign spokesperson. A response to the duel provoked by Emmanuel Macron, whom she describes as the president of injustice and “social havoc”.
A few activists boarded a large bus “M. la France”, in Thorigny-sur-Oreuse, another town in the Yonne, accompanied them. “Marine defends purchasing power for all those who are in trouble, it can’t be worse than Macron”says Marie-Solange Wener, retired canine breeder and ex-elected municipal RN in Sens. “The French don’t have balls in their ass, it sucks and they’re not going to vote Marine”plague Alain Joly, Lepenist since 1974, 65-year-old coachbuilder painter wearing a “100% Johnny Hallyday” T-shirt.
Marine Le Pen did not take a big risk in choosing this region, a favorable territory, even if a number of cereal growers voted for the president after the adoption of crop insurance against climatic risks in February, or the September 2020 agricultural recovery. “Macron doesn’t care at all”accuses Thierry Blanc, the farmer who hosted the RN delegation, himself angry with the withholding tax, which prevents him from “defiscalize”but also worried about having to dry his crops with gas, the price of which will soar.
A “wall of inflation”
The candidate president warned, as of Sunday, that he intended to demonstrate that Marine Le Pen’s project does not meet the needs of purchasing power. The latter therefore continued on its path: denouncing a “wall of inflation” – even if France has the lowest inflation in Europe (5.1% over one year) – a lack of« anticipation » of the executive and “dramatic consequences” coming…
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