Faced with demotivated or angry voters, especially during meetings and movements, both candidates play themselves on the diabolization of the opponent in their strategy of between-two-tours.
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Two rooms, same atmosphere. Tuesday, April 12, in Strasbourg, the public meeting held by Emmanuel Macron at the foot of the cathedral was disrupted by hostile activists to the head of state, who came to throw their slogans – “social traitor!”, “Miduses the ISF ! “,” Macron in prison! “-, before being evacuated by the order service. One of them was dragged on the ground.
The same day, Marine Le Pen was welcomed in Vernon (Eure) by a lined invective, too: “Marine Putin!”, “Facho!” The candidate of the national gathering (RN) saw his press conference The next day, interrupted by an ecologist ecologist eager to denounce his “complacency” with respect to Russian President Vladimir Putin. She too was exit vigorously, drawn on the floor.
Ordinary, the presidential election raises, except for hope, at least one semblance of enthusiasm. Every five years, in the Cesarist tradition of the V e Republic, the French strive to believe in the myth of the providential candidate, who will succeed where his predecessor failed. A more or less long state of grace settles after his victory, then magic fainted. This tale seems to be inaudible. The outgoing against the extreme right: that’s what the debate is reduced. Animosity reigns, not the entry.
“Make a barrage”
In the evening of the first round, Emmanuel Macron as Marine Le Pen unfolded caught speeches, in front of mechanical ardor fans. The first bet, in his short campaign, on a conservative reflex, which would see the voters renew a man who can help France to amortize the shock of crises. The second was paried on the degiciness. Difficult to create a sense of membership in this context.
For the second round, Sunday, April 24, which looks open, Emmanuel Macron has converted to the dynamics of rejection. Not one day passes without the head of state qualifying his opponent of “far-right candidate” or emphasizes the dangerousness of his project, which aims to deconstruct the European Union, the rule of law, and is based on a doubtful financial and legal credibility. Diabolisation by ideas more than values, in order to reactivate the Republican dam, even if it considers that the latter “is no longer a reality”.
In an attempt to inversion stigma, the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, too, calls to “barring” to the outgoing president. “Dam to a new five-year social desolation and national deconstruction,” she launched a meeting in Avignon on Wednesday.
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