Macron and women's suffrage

There were, this Tuesday evening, a few walkers in front of the television.

Connected to BFM, they wanted to see what Valérie Pécresse was going to say, eye to eye, to Jean-Jacques Bourdin.

The star interviewer is accused by a former RMC-BFM journalist of attempted sexual assault.

The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation.

Pécresse: “I clearly asked myself the question of my participation in this program this evening (…) I respect the presumption of innocence (…) if these accusations are proven, they are serious and they must be condemned.

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An LREM executive admits: “She scores points with this outing”. He senses the danger: “I saw the reaction of the women around me when she was appointed in December, they said to me “ 

 ”. In post-MeeToo France, Macron is being criticized for not having done enough on the equality front as well as on that of violence against women. The subject is taken very seriously and the party's experts gamble on new proposals that they will submit to the candidate, such as, for example, a device to enshrine in law the right to the presence of a lawyer with the victims at the time of filing complaint. Women, in particular, would thus be assisted from the start of a procedure…

MP Roland Lescure confirms that it will be necessary to put “the women factor” at the top of the pile: “we have taken a giant step since 2017 on this subject but, since then, society has made two.

So we have to go even further”.

Emmanuel Macron's two main opponents are Marine Le Pen and Valérie Pécresse.

The president-candidate will try to prove that he is the most feminist of the three.