After a weekend of mobilization in all camps, place Monday, March 28 at the official campaign, which leaves the candidates two weeks to raise awareness of the French so far rather in withdrawal, thirteen days before the first round, April 10.
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The polls follow one another and place the outgoing president far ahead of Marine Le Pen, who is closely followed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Eric Zemmour and Valérie Pécresse are fighting for fourth and fifth places.
Nearly four out of ten voters sure to vote have not yet made their choice and are "
in hesitation
", reminded AFP on Friday Adelaide Zulfikarpasic, director of BVA Opinion.
Abstention also hovers ostensibly over this atypical presidential election.
The health crisis linked to Covid-19 and the war on the European continent, in Ukraine, crushed a campaign which was slow to really take off, despite candidates firing on all cylinders.
Large gatherings over the weekend
When Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the best placed on the left, according to the polls, brought together thousands of people on the Prado in Marseille on Sunday, one of his rivals, Yannick Jadot, filled the Zénith in Paris for the biggest meeting of the history of French ecology with between 3500 to 4000 people.
The Insoumis leader, who narrowly missed the second round march in 2017, warned against "
a low-cost second round
" between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
Eric Zemmour claimed "
100,000
" people for his rally on Sunday at the Trocadéro, where he said he was the "only right-wing candidate".
Nicolas Sarkozy and François Fillon had held meetings there in 2012 and 2017, losing the presidential election in the process.
Eric Zemmour, who is slowly eroding in the polls, was accused of having left chanting
"Macron assassin"
in the crowd.
Words he condemned.
Marine Le Pen experienced a hectic weekend for her first trip to Guadeloupe.
Emmanuel Macron, who is campaigning
at a minimum
, travels to Dijon on Monday on the lands of the socialist left to meet high school students.
He has made education one of his priorities for a possible second term.
Afraid of paying the price for an election that would be decided in advance, he appealed to abstainers on Sunday, stressing that "
an election is the best way to make your choices
".
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The strict rules of the official campaign
Speaking time, official posters, campaign clips... With the start of the official campaign on Monday, candidates are required to follow strict rules.
The speaking time of the twelve presidential candidates is now counted according to the principle of strict equality, each having the same air time in the media.
A sorting not always easy to do when the Head of State is in the spotlight as President-in-Office of the European Union and because of the conflict in Ukraine.
Monday also begins the time for campaign clips on radio and television, as well as professions of faith in the mailboxes of some 48.7 million French people registered in March 2022 on the electoral lists, according to INSEE.
The official campaign will end on April 9 at 00:00, the day before the election.
The second round is scheduled for April 24.