After the demonization of ideas, the RN candidate has carried out a strategy of watering down her image in recent months. A profitable strategy.
According to the latest polls, the gap between outgoing President Emmanuel Macron and National Rally candidate Marine Le Pen is narrowing in the event of a clash in the second round of the presidential election.
A few days before the first round, only three points now separate the two candidates. If the duel oscillated between 53-47% and 58-42% in March, the latest poll underlines a fall of Emmanuel Macron to 51.5% of voting intentions, against 48.5% for Marine Le Pen. The 53-year-old National Rally candidate is embarking on her third presidential campaign and seems closer than ever to the Élysée.
Today, Marine Le Pen praises her project as being “perfectly feasible, legally reliable and financially sustainable” and took care to erase the sulphurous past of the party of his father, Jean-Marie Le Pen. “It’s a job she began several years ago, when she took over the presidency of the National Front, underlines Virginie Martin, French political scientist and teacher at the Kedge Business School. When we look closely, we realize that it took 10 years to carry out this work of de-demonization and detoxification by taking a much more social turn. Today, her party is the first among the workers and the unemployed, she has embraced the questions of precariousness which are mixed with the questions of immigration. That’s how she got away from her father, who she expelled from the party.”