The ten-day first-round warning owes nothing to chance.
In an interview with Le
Parisien
,
former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe dramatizes the outcome of the approaching presidential election as the gap between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in a hypothetical second round has narrowed in recent days, giving an electoral balance of power around 55-45%.
“Of course, Marine Le Pen can win.
Since 2017, she has pretended to come back to many things that tense part of the electorate who had not yet joined her, ”
first analyzes the boss of
Horizons
.
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The RN contender having been able to widen the gap with his direct competitor Éric Zemmour in the polls since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, finding himself potentially qualified in the second round, the former head of government considers that the nationalist candidate finally served.
"I also note that the very great aggressiveness of Éric Zemmour, the often scandalous nature of his remarks seem to soften him by comparison"
, analyzes the one who is fully committed to Emmanuel Macron ... while warming up for the next election scheduled for 2027.
Legislative candidate if Le Pen is elected
If the breakthrough of Marine Le Pen worries in the ranks of macronie, the latter is trying to mobilize her electorate against the idea that the election has already been decided.
A week after the summons from Gérald Darmanin who described the RN leader as
"dangerous"
for the president-candidate, it is therefore Édouard Philippe's turn to explain that the one who is running for the third time can win.
“If she won, things would be, believe me, seriously different for the country.
And not better.
His program is dangerous.”
Faced with the risk of abstention, the mayor of Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) thinks that
“the fate of the country will not be the same at all if Emmanuel Macron remains president, or if Marine Le Pen or Jean-Luc Mélenchon become so. »
And to specify that if he does not intend to be a candidate in the next legislative elections, he could go into battle if Marine Le Pen were elected to the supreme office.