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Presidential: in the second LR debate, the candidates play it safe

2021-11-14T23:08:38.619Z


The Republican contenders' second nomination debate this Sunday was largely monopolized by issues related to the


Round two.

Six days after the first right-wing debate, the five aspiring LR presidential candidates met for a second jousting session, this Sunday, November 14 on BFMTV.

Three hours to try to make his proposals heard, his difference and try to win the preference of some 124,000 members of the Republicans who will vote in early December to choose their champion for 2022.

What was it?

In many ways, this second debate has long appeared to be a repetition of the first.

In total, Michel Barnier, Xavier Bertrand, Éric Ciotti, Philippe Juvin and Valérie Pécresse will have spent more than 1 hour 45 minutes talking about immigration, security or terrorism: themes dear to the right-wing electorate, prioritized by BFMTV and already widely discussed last Monday, on which the presidential candidates have assumed to stretch their speaking time.

No "trembling hand" on security

At a time when the Republicans are competing with the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and even more radically by Eric Zemmour, the contenders were all keen to show that they would not have "the hand that trembles ”on the security, even if it means hardening their remarks even more.

Thus, in the wheel of the very right-hander Eric Ciotti, Valérie Pécresse and Michel Barnier have, with their nuances, put forward the "end of automatic soil law". The former European Brexit negotiator, who said he admitted that some “have the feeling of no longer being in France” in certain cities, has proposed to abolish state medical aid for foreigners, “except in an emergency”. Eric Ciotti has reiterated his desire to "put an end to family reunification", "an end to social immigration", argued Philippe Juvin, when Xavier Bertrand wanted "that it is immigration that adapts to the needs of France "And not the other way around, according to him, proposing to" reduce labor immigration by 30% ".

On security, it was a question of non-dissuasive justice (Ciotti), "drowned" and to which it is necessary to render magistrates' posts (Pécresse), a greater "severity of the penalties" (Juvin) ... but also of "punishment minimum mandatory when we attack police, gendarmes, firefighters, but also mayors, "said Xavier Bertrand, always quick this evening as during the first debate, to multiply tackles" Mr. Macron ".

How to try to embody this role of "best opponent" to the outgoing president that he claims;

just as he has repeatedly stressed that he and LR represented "the republican right": it is also not to spare an Eric Zemmour who is eyeing their electorate.

End of sequence… on terrorism.

Work premium and increase in the lowest wages

After a handful of minutes on the management of the Covid-19 pandemic, each of the candidates was able to spread more about the questions of purchasing power - "the first concern of the French", will underline (nevertheless) one of the host journalists . Xavier Bertrand's “work premium”, “total elimination of charges for the first job for three years” for Michel Barnier, 10% increase in the lowest wages at Valérie Pécresse, tax cuts for Eric Ciotti. Then a fourth chapter runs on “France's place in the world”.

In the end, three hours of broadcast, and a sequence less marked by skirmishes than the first debate could have been: Michel Barnier found himself in the middle of crossfire.

Before the congress of December 4, there are two debates left to this band of five to ward off the indecision that still largely presides over the future of this uncertain election.

Source: leparis

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