Published on : 15/04/2022 – 18:30
In the duel between him and Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential elections on April 24, can Emmanuel Macron bet on the card of the dam on the far right? This “republican” reflex, because it transcended partisan affiliations, had largely contributed to his first election in 2017. But Marine Le Pen’s counterattack, surfing on an anti-Macron wave sweeping several sections of the population, makes the outcome of this election uncertain.
On May 7, 2017, Emmanuel Macron (LREM) won the second round of the presidential election against Marine Le Pen (FN), 66.1% against 33.9%. Among the factors of this large victorythe union of right and left political parties in a common front of refusal: to prevent the far right from gaining access to the doors of the Élysée.
Can history repeat itself on the evening of April 24? The polling institutes announce a much tighter duelwhile many political scientists do not exclude a “political accident”.
At the heart of this campaign between two rounds, Marine Le Pen in turn seized on this terminology, turning it against the Head of State: during her first campaign meeting, on April 14 in Avignon she called for “to block against a new five-year term of Emmanuel Macron”.
The far-right candidate can indeed ride the wave of dissatisfaction with “everything but Macron”, an aspiration to “clearance” which animates several heterogeneous electorates, at the end of a five-year term punctuated by crises, such as that of the yellow vests or that caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
This week, Michel Cambon, in a humorous nod to Spanish history, draws this relative electoral asset of Emmanuel Macron in his campaign against Marine Le Pen.
Michel Cambon, known as “Cambon”, has been a draftsman for thirty years in Grenoble. He first published his works in Hara-kiri, the Almanach Vermot, the Grosse Bertha or Fluide glacial, then more regularly for Les Affiches de Grenoble, the Journal des Arts, as well as many other magazines, publications and websites. He is the winner in 2013 of the Press Cartoon Europe prize for a satirical cartoon on the war in Syria.
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