10:25
Him president, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan will appoint Didier Raoult Minister of Health
10:15
Jadot straight in his boots
The environmental candidate, who has remained faithful to his line – with relative success since he is credited with only 6% of voting intentions – is traveling to Saint-Brévin-les-Pins (Loire-Atlantique) this Thursday morning, for visit a medico-social center threatened with submersion by the rising ocean. He will then join Nantes for a last “climate meeting” which promises to be modest.
09:45
Anne Hidalgo will call “to block the far right” in the second round
She kicked until then in touch when she was asked the question of a Macron-Le Pen duel in the second round. Realistic about her chances, almost zero, of being qualified on Sunday evening, the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo makes it known that she will call “in any case to block the far right”. “It’s my compass, and I will do it, but we are not yet on the evening of the first round,” she said earlier on France 2.
09:25
Objective: youth vote
The French government has joined forces with the social network Snapchat to “encourage young people” to vote on April 10 and 24, through applications based in particular on augmented reality, they announced Thursday in a joint press release. Creators with a large audience will “pass messages” to the 24.2 million monthly active users of the social network in France to encourage “younger generations” to go to the polls, and explain to them the issues of voting, while pollsters predict a high level of abstention for the poll.
09:10
Yannick Jadot appeals to “the conscience of each and everyone”
Ecology is him. “If you want these subjects to be at the heart of the next five-year term, you have to vote ecologist, boasts the EELV candidate this Thursday on France Inter. If the French do not put out an environmental bulletin, there will be no climate change in the next five-year period. We will not defend birds and animals. »
09:05
“They knocked on my door, and I learned that I could vote even in prison”
08:55
Fabien Roussel renews his wish to leave NATO
The politico-military coalition is no longer able to protect Europe and can even harm it, believes the communist candidate. “When there is peace, it will be necessary to lay the foundations for new cooperation with the 50 member countries of this European continent (…) from the Atlantic to the Urals”, he recommends on BFMTV / RMC.
08:46
Valérie Pécresse believes in victory
08:30
“Jean-Louis Borloo was humiliated by Emmanuel Macron”, according to Pécresse
We announced it to you yesterday, the former minister Jean-Louis Borloo has decided to support Emmanuel Macron. Her former colleague Valérie Pécresse tackles this rallying: “the President of the Republic tore up the suburban plan”, she recalls on CNews, referring to an ambitious mission entrusted by Emmanuel Macron to the former mayor of Valenciennes at the start of mandate, but quickly aborted. “Jean-Louis Borloo was humiliated by Emmanuel Macron”, continues Valérie Pécresse.
08:23
Macron, “a president who gives in to the street” according to Pécresse
08:20
“We need an all-out purchasing power shock,” says Valérie Pécresse
The Republican candidate, guest of CNews, also offers “a shock of purchasing power” in the preamble to her morning interview. The number 1 concern of the French is on the lips of all the candidates in this last straight line for the first round.
08:10
Why you might be getting calls from candidates
08:05
Hidalgo wants to restore the ISF and introduce a VAT indexed to the income of the French
“There is an emergency on purchasing power, a pity that Emmanuel Macron sees it so late”, tackles Anne Hidalgo this Thursday morning on France 2. The socialist candidate plans in particular to “lower VAT to 5.5% on gasoline” and promises “the restoration of the ISF”. “It is always the middle and working classes who pay the bill, especially from the question of VAT, since it applies to everyone regardless of their income. »
07:55
Marine Le Pen and the veil
“I am in favor of banning the veil absolutely everywhere, including in public spaces”, declared Wednesday evening on TF1 the candidate, who had posed, a few months ago, with a young veiled woman during a trip, arousing the taunts of supporters of Eric Zemmour. Nothing contradictory however, insists this Thursday Marine Le Pen on RTL: “when we put in place laws and that we make them vote, we do not fight against people. »
07:50
Zemmour, Le Pen and “subjects on which they can agree”
He refuses in front to consider it, but what would Eric Zemmour do if he were eliminated on the evening of the first round? Support Marine Le Pen or keep quiet? That is the question, and it stirs, of course, within Reconquest!. In any case Marine Le Pen, she especially does not want to affix the photo of her opponent on her poster.
07:40
Rallies? “My problem will be choosing rather than finding,” says Marine Le Pen
Marine Le Pen already has a fairly precise idea, she says, of the people who will form the first government of her term if she is elected president: “people who will join me, either before the second round or after the second round. My problem will be to choose rather than to find, ”she says on RTL, confident.
The candidate does not exclude, if she is elected, the participation in her government of people from “the Chevènementist left, that is to say from a sovereignist left”.
07:25
Where is my polling station?
07:15
A Thursday evening full of meetings
The candidates are throwing their last forces into the campaign this Thursday evening: half of them are meeting everywhere in France.
- The EELV presidential candidate, Yannick Jadot, holds a meeting in Nantes at 6 p.m.;
- The communist Fabien Roussel is in a meeting at the Zénith de Lille at 6:30 p.m.;
- At this time the candidate of the RN Marine Le Pen will go up on the platform of the Perpignan exhibition center;
- At 7 p.m., Valérie Pécresse, the LR candidate, will start her meeting in Lyon;
- In Paris, the Reconquête! candidate, Eric Zemmour, will be at the Palais des Sports at 8 p.m.;
- Same time but another city – and another atmosphere: Philippe Poutou, the NPA candidate, will find his supporters in the Mermoz room in Toulouse.
07:10
Emmanuel Macron wants to index pensions to inflation “from this summer”
Asked about TF1 on Wednesday evening, the candidate president explained that he wanted to revalue pensions on inflation from the summer “given the prices” which have jumped due to the war in Ukraine. Emmanuel Macron also promised to “maintain a shield for the price of gas and electricity” and to “maintain the rebate at the pump” if prices continue to rise.
07:05
Matinales: ask for the program!
Let’s start at the beginning: there are many candidates to speak on the air this Thursday morning on TV and radio channels:
- RTL welcomes Marine Le Pen at 7:35 a.m.
- FRANCE 2 welcomes Anne Hidalgo at 7:38 a.m.
- CNEWS welcomes Valérie Pécresse at 8:15 a.m.
- RFI welcomes Nathalie Arthaud at 8:19 a.m.
- Public Sénat welcomes Jean Lassalle at 8:20 a.m.
- RMC/BFMTV welcomes Fabien Roussel at 8:30 a.m.
07:00
Good morning all
And welcome to this live! It will allow you to follow, throughout the day, news related to the presidential election, the first round of which takes place this Sunday. Penultimate day of the campaign, this Thursday promises to be rich.