On the stage, Marine Le Pen speaks less than the anti-Macron.
For her first between-two-round meeting, this Thursday in Avignon, in the Vaucluse, the candidate of the National Rally abandoned her pastel blue tunics at the same time as the curves of her expression.
No more question of a maternal and reconciling figure.
It is now a question of appearing as a tombette of the President of the Republic.
It is bright red jacket on the back, the words sharpened like so many arrows against his rival, that declaims the deputy of Pas-de-Calais in front of some 4000 activists, under the wooden and steel marquee of the exhibition center of the City of the Popes.
Barely installed behind her desk, Marine Le Pen castigates the ending five-year term
“who will have divided, despised, hurt, and erred: an unfortunate, costly, ruinous wandering.
A wandering made up of youth, dressed in a flirtatious smile, ripped off by an alleged competence but whose consequences we must now repair.
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From the mandate of Emmanuel Macron, the deputy of Pas-de-Calais, underlines in turn
“the collapse”
of purchasing power,
“tax hype”
,
“judicial laxity”
as
“delinquency that has become endemic”
.
The gap that separates her from the president-candidate in the polls has widened a little more against her every day since the start of the week.
The fault, according to his teams, is not with the controversies that marked his start to the campaign for the second round: on his relationship with the press, his leniency with Russia or the evacuation of an environmental activist from one of his conferences of hurry.
But by reactivating a form of
"demonization"
and
"republican front"
against it, on the part of institutions and the media.
“There is nothing wrong with our start to the campaign.
It is a militancy on the part of some that is getting under way.
The elite bloc is getting tense
, ”confided the RN mayor of Fréjus, David Rachline, shortly before the start of his champion’s speech.
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On the platform, Marine Le Pen thus mocks her rival who
"sinks into insulting remarks or remote-controlled anathemas"
after he portrays her as
"the real face of the far right."
Shortly before booing the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who in an interview with the
Parisian
of the day assured that
"with Marine Le Pen, the poor may die."
Framed by two giant screens where the countdown to Sunday April 24 is displayed, the candidate stings:
“We have been swimming for three days in the big nonsense.
In a totally childish paranoia.
I believe that it is one more five-year term of Emmanuel Macron which is a risk for the country.
The whole point is there.
Convinced that Marine Le Pen's voice pool is "in the 72% of French people who voted against Emmanuel Macron", it is against the outgoing president that Marine Le Pen's teams hope to wake up a dam as much as to take advantage of it. .
"You will see, it is against Emmanuel Macron that a Republican Front will finally be formed"
, convinced himself the day before the special adviser to Marine Le Pen, Philippe Olivier.
In conclusion of her speech of about forty minutes, the candidate is reconciled with populist accents less assumed these last seven months:
"do not let yourself be deceived by the gesticulations of a system which does not know how to do anything other than defend, defend yourself to keep your prebends, defend yourself to divest you of a power that they will quickly hasten to concede to Brussels or to American consulting firms.
Marine Le Pen knows it.
This presidential election will be won by the one, from her or from Emmanuel Macron, who will arouse the least rejection in exactly ten days.