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Presidential debate: Macron dominates, Le Pen holds the shock

2022-04-20T22:50:00.661Z


STORY – The face-to-face return match between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen was better held, without failing to turn into a confrontation.


The tone went down a notch.

The background has not changed.

Not that much.

Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen met on Wednesday evening like five years ago, finalists in the presidential election, in agreement on nothing, opposed on everything.

With one difference.

The attitude of the candidate of the National Rally.

The aggressiveness and the almost gave way to calm and concentration.

To the point of giving the impression of a reversal of roles compared to 2017. Emmanuel Macron in attack, Marine Le Pen on the defensive.

So much so that rid of the excesses of five years ago, the fundamental differences between the two candidates appear more clearly.

In particular on the central question of purchasing power, a theme on which Marine Le Pen has run her entire campaign.

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“I want to make purchasing power the priority of my five-year term (…).

I want to return their money to the French

,” she says.

Before mocking the balance sheet of his rival:

“You have chosen the carbon tax which…

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Source: lefigaro

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