Presidential 2022: on TF1, candidates are finally measured at Macron … but remotely

On the plateau of “Facing the war”, on TF1, Monday, March 14, eight of the twelve candidates in the running have approached a wide range of topics, succeeding one another in monologues and interviews, without ever crossing or dialogue.

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So far, so close … Monday, March 14, on the TF1 plateau, the presidential election candidates have finally been able to compete with the long-awaited opponent; guessing it, brushing it, criticize, but not see it, neither touch, nor alpacuer.

Ten days after formalizing his candidacy for a new mandate, Emmanuel Macron was ready for the first time in the campaign to a general television program, including the theme – “against the war”, centered on the conflict Ukraine – served as a pretext to approach a wide range of topics. Diplomacy, Europe, energy, purchasing power …

For nearly two and a half hours, eight of the twelve candidates in the vote on the 10th and 24th of April have asserted their projects, succeeding one another in monologues and interviews, without ever crossing or dialogue.

An exercise that, in the case of the Head of State, was mostly involved in defending his assessment and commenting on his action. As if the president had swallowed the candidate, in an arbitration assumed because of the context of fear and uncertainties raised by the return of war in Europe. “For five years, we have together crossed a lot of crises, and sometimes the most unthinkable, he recalled, in order to better emphasize his ability to face the storms. We can overcome them, if first we stay united. “

Attempt to reach the tenant of the Elysée

Without frontal debate – at which Emmanuel Macron refuses before the first round -, each imperative experienced his method to try to reach the tenant of the Elysée at a distance, to which the polls promise a comfortable re-election in a little more one month.

Valérie Pécresse has thus denounced the changing convictions of his competitor, nuclear power or pensions, in order to ask as the true reformer. “Do the opposite of what we did for five years, will the French be fooled? I do not believe,” said the party candidate the Republicans (LR).

The ecologist Yannick Jadot, for his part, has castigated a man who, in his eyes, “ruled with the lobbies, sacrificing health, biodiversity, the climate”. “[Emmanuel Macron] has turned his back on this issue of climate change,” said the socialist Anne Hidalgo, recalling the conviction of the state, in 2021, for “climate inaction”.

Nothing to do with the national gathering candidate, Marine Le Pen, who arrives in front of the herald of European integration, assures the French: “The nation is the only structure that is capable of Protect yourself. “Or with his extreme right competitor, Eric Zemmour, whose goal is to” stop immigration “and” that France remains France “.

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