Despite a strong progression, Marine Le Pen signs new failure of his strategy to presidential election

The candidate of the national gathering failed to conquer the Elysée with 41.5% of the vote, Sunday, after looking, in vain, the tone of his country during the between-two-tours.

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The dark mine and white fists, as it tugged them hard so as not to fade; At 8:10 pm, Sunday, April 24, since the former hunting pavilion of Armenonville, at the Bois de Boulogne, in Paris, Marine Le Pen said “respect the lot of the urns” which defeated him to the presidential election .

The national gathering candidate (RN) lost for the third time, obtaining 41.5% of the votes against 58.5% for Emmanuel Macron; A gap of 17 points. A few hundred activists tight between the colonnades of the village hall applauded him shouting “Thank you!”, In front of about 500 accredited journalists.

A rebourning of the Republican tradition, the far-right candidate did not have a word to greet the winner. She immediately regretted that a “great freedom” had not blown and accused his opponent of led “two weeks of unfair, brutal and violent methods” against her. Far from a Nicolas Sarkozy who, in 2012, had appeased his followers and “wished good luck in the middle of the events” to François Hollande, “because there is something much greater than us, it’s our country, C ‘Is our homeland, it’s France “. In 2007, Ségolène Royal had desired the next President Sarkozy “to fulfill his mission at the service of all French”. Sunday, Emmanuel Macron, at the Champ-de-Mars, he greeted the voters of Marine Le Pen, which he recognized “the disappointment tonight”, asking his audience not to whistle.

With Marine Le Pen, the extreme right reached in France of 2022 an unpublished level. While it had obtained 33.9% of the votes in 2017, it increases in five years of more than 7 points and harvests more than 13 million votes (compared with 18.7 million for Emmanuel Macron and 15.4 million votes. expressed). What to pass his defeat for a success. Losy, Marine Le Pen welcomed a “brilliant victory”, in the way of Royal Ségolène who promised “other victories” fifteen years ago. “The ideas we represent happen to peaks, has it estimated, and millions of our compatriots have chosen the national camp and change.”

“The system has hard life “

The representative of the RN has grown from undeniable success. She reached, playing on the distrust of the Anti-Facults, to conquer the West Indies and Guyana in a perfect inversion of the balance of power with Emmanuel Macron in 2017: she gathered 69.6% in Guadeloupe (compared to 24.87% there At five years), 60.9% in Martinique (compared to 22.45%), 60.7% in Guyana (compared to 35.1%). The one that proclaims the voice of the “France of the forgotten” has also arrived in mind in several departments of metropolis, including the Oise, the sum, the Vosges, the Meuse, the Pyrenees-Orientales, the Gard, the Var or Vaucluse, against the only Pas-de-Calais and Aisne in 2017.

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