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10h53 : Emmanuel Macron’s team has dissected Marine Le Pen’s program to identify its flaws, with a view to the debate between the two rounds. The objective is to deconstruct the image of a candidate defender of purchasing power. The presidential candidate will remain on the facts, assures franceinfo a framework of the campaign and will say “things precisely quite calmly”, he who is so often accused of arrogance.
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10h23 : Blockade of Sciences Po after the Sorbonne
10h28 : Since yesterday, students have been blocking the University of La Sorbonne, in Paris, to denounce the choice “horrible” between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in the second round. They are joined this morning by a few students from Sciences Po Paris, who have installed trash cans and barriers in front of the school entrance on rue Saint-Guillaume.
10h02 : 🔴 [ÉVÉNEMENT]📺 Wednesday April 20 at 9 p.m., @France2tv and @TF1 will offer the #Présidentielle2022 event live: “THE DEBATE”⏱ On D-4 of the second round, Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will answer questions from @LeaSalame and @GillesBouleau #2022LeDébat https://t.co/VlGVlpRfyq
10h25 : The debate between the two rounds between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will be broadcast on Wednesday April 20 on France 2 and TF1 at 9 p.m., hosted by Léa Salamé and Gilles Bouleau.
09h42 : The National Election Campaign Control Commission (CNCCEP) has finally decided “to homologate” Marine Le Pen’s profession of faith, already printed, but maintaining its “reservations” on the mention “source Ministry of the Interior”combined with figures on insecurity and immigration.
09h27 : Let’s take a look at the news:
A trip dedicated to ecology for Emmanuel Macron in Le Havre, the first big meeting of the between-two-towers in Avignon for Marine Le Pen: the two presidential finalists go back to the front in a campaign waged at full speed. “We have never had a president who has shown as much authoritarianism as Emmanuel Macron”, denounced the candidate of the RN, invited on France 2 this morning. Follow our live.
• Ukraine announced a resumption of evacuations of civilians via nine humanitarian corridors, including from the besieged city of Mariupol, in the south-east of the country, after a day of suspension. Russia also suffered a major material setback: the cruiser Moscowflagship of the Black Sea Fleet, having been “severely damaged” by an explosion of munitions according to Moscow, and by missile strikes according to Ukrainian officials. Follow our live.
• The 75th Cannes Film Festival unveils its official selection at 11 am. More than 2,000 films have been submitted, twenty of which will be able to run for the Palme d’Or, after the coronation, as breathtaking as it is divisive, of the Frenchwoman Julia Ducournau, in 2021. Thierry Frémaux’s press conference can be followed in this live broadcast.
• At the trial of the November 13 attacks, Salah Abdeslam declared for the first time that his “goal” was to blow himself up in a café in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, but that he had given up on doing so after looking at the people around him. His questioning will continue this afternoon.
• Two Palestinians were killed this morning in a new operation by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, a week after deadly attacks in the heart of the Tel Aviv metropolis, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
09h20 : The French people with mental disabilities or suffering from cognitive disorders challenge the presidential candidates and make 15 proposals in this between-two rounds. The goal is to help people in a situation of mental fragility (handicap, cognitive disorders, neurodegenerative disease, aging disorders, etc.) to exercise their right to vote. They are two million to be concerned.
08h49 : 🗣 2nd round ➡️ “Marine Le Pen is for everyone. The country is in the hands of an oligarchy, only the people can deliver the country”, according to Philippe Olivier. leftist voters.” https://t.co/Yfctyr0D2r<video width="100%" height="220" controls="">
08h49 : “Lhe country is in the hands of an oligarchy and only the people can deliver it from this oligarchy”according to Philippe Olivier, special adviser to Marine Le Pen, guest of the morning of franceinfo.
08h49 : Marine Le Pen came second in the first round, but can she finish first in the second round in ten days? To examine its dynamics and its limits, we interviewed Gilles Ivaldi, a specialist in the extreme right at Cevipof. He believes that to circumvent the Republican front, the far-right candidate must now form an anti-Macron front.
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07h54 : “Mélenchon I find, in recent years, he who was very attached to secularism, has drifted towards a complacency with regard to Islamism.
08h07 : The far-right candidate wants to introduce 0% VAT on a basket of 100 products. “We will have no difficulty obtaining the agreement of the European Union since it has indicated that it was rather in favor of lowering the VAT on basic necessities”she explains in front of Caroline Roux.
07h49 : “I want the referendum to become a classic operating tool. I don’t want it to be used to say yes or no to someone, but yes or no to something”.
07h49 : “We have never had a president who has shown as much authoritarianism as Emmanuel Macron”, says Marine Le Pen, assuring that France is “the 34th country in terms of freedom of the press in the Reporters Without Borders ranking”. She also regrets that the Head of State has “imposed a massive restriction” with Covid-19.
07h47 : Marine Le Pen looks back on her press conference disrupted yesterday by an activist from the Ibiza collective. “What should scandalize is that we cannot campaign for the second round without the press conferences being disrupted, without us being attacked”, regrets the leader of the RN.
07h44 : “I think the West would have a lot to lose if, in the long term, Russia allies itself with China. These two superpowers would constitute a major danger, economic and military.”
07h44 : Marine Le Pen talks about “war crimes” and Ukraine. I had immediately requested a UN investigation into those responsible for these horrors”adds the RN presidential candidate.
07h37 : Marine Le Pen is the guest of “4 Truths” on France 2.
08h06 : In Paris, Anne Hidalgo collected just under 22,900 votes, ten times less than two years ago, when she was re-elected as mayor. In a brasserie in the 11th arrondissement, franceinfo went to meet its voters … of 2020. “I voted for Hidalgo in the municipal elections because she was the best candidate”, answers a Parisian. And in the presidential election? “No, I voted Mélenchon.”
(THOMAS COEX / AFP)
06h58 : In the regional press, we note that the battle of positions is launched between the two candidates concerning the regional division of the Grand Est, “still disputed by many Alsatians“.
06h52 : The Obs looks for its part on the Macron-Le Pen duel, noting that the first “no longer embodies novelty and struggles to meet the expectations of suffering France” and that the second “has further trivialized the extreme right and enjoys ever more support from the popular categories.”
08h02 : Paris Match devotes its weekly edition to the upside of the relationship between Emmanuel Macron and Nicolas Sarkozy, while the former President of the Republic announced to support the outgoing President.
06h44 : Same story with Releasewhich denounces “Breaches of constitutional principles” within the program of the candidate of the National Rally.
06h42 : Pour The worldMarine Le Pen “threatens the rule of law” by breaking free “of the control of constitutionality, of Parliament and of part of the press”writes the newspaper, which also devotes part of its front page to Rosgvardia, Vladimir Putin’s national guard, “who is trying to take control of Ukrainian cities”.
06h45 : Let’s take a look at the press side. Le Figaro notes that the traditional parties are threatened with disappearance, while the two political forces which dominated in 2012 (the PS and the UMP) arrive below 5% of the vote ten years later.
07h59 : Let’s take a look at the news:
• At the trial of the November 13 attacks, Salah Abdeslam declared for the first time that his “goal” was to blow himself up on the evening of the attacks in a café in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, but that he had given up on doing so after looking at the people around him. “I didn’t give up out of fear, I gave up out of humanity”, he assured. The second part of his interrogation will take place this afternoon.
A trip dedicated to ecology, to Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), for Emmanuel Macron, the first big meeting of the between-two-rounds in the south for Marine le Pen: the two presidential finalists go back to the front today today, in a vigorous campaign. The RN candidate will be Caroline Roux’s guest on the “4 Truths” set of France 2, at 7:30 a.m. Follow his interview in our live.
• Russia suffered one of its biggest material setbacks since the start of the invasion of Ukraine: its cruiser Moskva, flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, was “severely damaged” by an explosion of ammunition according to Moscow, and by missile strikes according to kyiv. In Washington, Joe Biden promised Volodymyr Zelensky massive new military aid of $800 million, including heavy equipment that the United States has so far been reluctant to deliver to kyiv for fear of further escalating tensions with Moscow and to be considered a party to the war. Follow our live.
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