Macron won the victory in the first round on April 10 last with 27.85% of the votes but he ended up with a bitter taste when he found out the narrow distance with his rival, who reached 23.15%.
According to surveys and specialists, the panorama has not changed much, so the difference in votes is expected to be between six and 15 percentage points.
The margin represents a significant drop for the current head of state when compared to the more than 30-point advantage with which he sealed his victory against the far-right candidate five years ago.
This decline is due to the successive crises and the growing discomfort of the population, especially due to the handling of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
“April 24 is a referendum for or against the European Union, ecology, youth and our Republic,” Macron defended, calling the second round a “true choice of civilization.”
Le Pen wants to transform this discomfort into votes in her favor and tries to further raise her image as a protector of the “most vulnerable” in a context of rising cost of living, driven first by the pandemic and currently by the war in Ukraine.
“Either the division, injustice and disorder imposed by Emmanuel Macron for the benefit of a few, or the meeting of the French around social justice and protection,” said the leader of the National Group.
Only three candidates urged their bases to vote explicitly for Macron, while the candidate from the left and third in the race Jean-Luc Mélenchon (21.95%) asked “not to give a single vote to Le Pen” but without rule out blank voting or abstention as alternatives.
Source: Ambito
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