LIVE. Presidential 2022: Macron pays tribute to his “two predecessors”
The essential :
- Ten years after the attacks committed by the terrorist Mohammed Merah, who killed seven people in Toulouse, Emmanuel Macron is in the Pink City alongside Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande for commemoration ceremonies. The President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, will also be present at their side.
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon is trying to amplify his campaign dynamic, which now places him in third position in the polls, by mobilizing his support during a march in Paris. Several thousand people are present alongside the candidate of La France insoumise during this demonstration which must end around 4 p.m. Place de la République.
- Valérie Pécresse will be the guest of the 20 hours from TF1 and will answer Anne-Claire Coudray’s questions live. Credited with 11% of voting intentions in the polls in recent days, the candidate Les Républicains hopes to convince many voters in order to access a second round.
- A new blow for Anne Hidalgo. According to JDD, the former mayor of Paris Bertand Delanoë, of which she was the deputy, will vote for Emmanuel Macron. “I voted for him in 2017 hoping he would be a good president, I vote for him in 2022 knowing he will be a good president,” he reportedly said.
6:02 p.m. – Mélenchon announces 100,000 people during the march for the Sixth Republic
The organizers of the march for the Sixth Republic claim 100,000 people present on the Place de la République to listen to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The prefecture has not yet communicated its assessment.
4:38 p.m. – France honors the memory of the victims of Mohammed Merah
Ten years after the Mohammed Merah attacks that left seven people dead, including Jewish children, President Macron and his rejected counterpart, Isaac Herzog, began paying a moving tribute to the victims on Sunday in Toulouse. In the middle of the afternoon, the two presidents laid a wreath in the courtyard of the Ohr Torah school (formerly Otzar Hatorah school), at the foot of the “Tree of Life”, a monument in tribute to the victims.
Arriving on the scene a few hours later, Emmanuel Macron gave a long hug to the director of the establishment. An exchange was then planned with Yaacov Monsonego and his wife, before the start of a ceremony of tribute to the victims, in a concert hall in downtown Toulouse, the Halle aux grains. Several texts will be read by friends and family members, then the President of the State of Israel and the President of the Republic will deliver speeches, in the presence of former Heads of State François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy.
Nearly 2,000 people are invited to these ceremonies organized by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Crif). Emmanuel Macron had indicated that he accepted the invitation in a speech read during the Crif dinner at the end of February in Paris, calling for a “general mobilization of all of society” to fight against anti-Semitism, and promising to “continue the “relentless” fight.
4:35 p.m. – “This five-year term will have been that of an incredible authoritarian drift”, protests Mélenchon
“Who would have imagined such a level of police repression?” Asked the Rebellious candidate for the presidential election, before regretting that only two investigations investigated by the IGPN for violence gave rise to administrative sanctions.
4:13 p.m. – “This vote is a social referendum”, thunders Jean-Luc Mélenchon
The Insoumis leader took the floor, place de la République, at the arrival of the procession of the march for the Sixth Republic. “This vote is a social referendum, because Mr. Macron has announced the color!” he launched to the crowd.
3:54 p.m. – “65 years with Macron or 60 years with Mélenchon, choose”, thunders Adrien Quatennens
LFI deputy Adrien Quatennens assured, during the march organized by the movement, that Jean-Luc Mélenchon was going against Emmanuel Macron to “pack up” his pension reform project at 65. “65 years with Macron or 60 years with Mélenchon, French, choose!”, He added.
3:52 p.m. – “We have come to say that another path is possible”, proclaims Ali Rabeh, mayor of Trappes and supporter of Mélenchon
“It is time to turn the page on five years of contempt”, thundered Ali Rabeh, the mayor of Trappes and support of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, during the march for the Sixth Republic. Other members of the People’s Parliament took the floor before the arrival of the Insoumis leader.
3:49 p.m. – Pécresse wants a “great constitutional law” on “security, immigration and the fight against Islamism”
The LR candidate for the Élysée Valérie Pécresse demonstrated on France 3 on Sunday that “we have not yet fully taken the full measure of this Islamist threat”, ten years after the attacks perpetrated by Mohamed Merah. The tenth anniversary of these jihadist attacks, which killed seven people and heralded the wave of attacks in the following years, is commemorated on Sunday in Toulouse in the presence of Emmanuel Macron, the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, as well as former presidents Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy. Valérie Pécresse, who went to the scene of one of the attacks on Friday, first repeated on Sunday “all (s) our support and all (s) our affection for the families of the victims”.
“In my project for France, there will be a major constitutional law in which we will affirm a whole series of principles on security, on immigration and on the fight against Islamism,” she continued. Thus, via a referendum, “there will be in the Constitution the fact that no one can take advantage of his origin or his religion to escape the common law. The law of the Republic is above faith”, has hammered candidate LR.
“For all the Islamist terrorists who will be released from prison – there will be hundreds of them in the coming years – I would like to see preventive detention sentences introduced”, so as for those who “continue to be radicalized” to “control their comings and goings”, she continued. In addition, the usual consultation of jihadist sites will be “penalized” and “any foreigner who preaches hatred will be returned immediately”, including if he has obtained “a right of asylum”, she advocated. “I also hope that being radicalized can be a real and serious cause for dismissal because companies are asking for it,” added Ms. Pécresse, given at 11% in the latest polls, in 5th position, far behind Emmanuel Macron. , credited with approximately 30%.
3:22 p.m. – Jean-Luc Mélenchon leaves the procession
Around 3 p.m., the Insoumis leader left the head of the procession to join a vehicle that will take him to the Place de la République, where he will give a speech lasting about an hour.
2:41 p.m. – “Down with Macron and all his clique”, sing in chorus the Insoumis militants
Leaving the Place de la Bastille fifteen minutes ago, a few rebel militants sing in chorus: “Down with Macron and all his clique and long live, long live the Sixth Republic.” Several thousand supporters of the Insoumis candidate accompany the leading procession.
2:20 p.m. – The “March for the Sixth Republic” begins in Paris
Surrounded by a few Insoumis parliamentarians, the presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon began his march for the Sixth Republic. The procession should arrive at the Place de la République in about an hour.
2:09 p.m. – Olivier Véran tackles the “permanent zigzags” of Valérie Pécresse
In an interview given to Parisian, Olivier Véran returned to the accusations of the Republicans according to which Emmanuel Macron would have copied the emission of Valérie Pécresse. “What Valérie Pécresse was talking to us about? She has changed her mind so often, for example on salaries, that it would be a bit much to copy and paste permanent zigzags”, tackled the Minister of Health.
For him, the LR candidate “remained torn between a reinforced right and a Tea Party right”, causing sympathizers to hesitate between Emmanuel Macron and Éric Zemmour. “The responsibility lies with her! By dint of not positioning herself, it is the voters who are choosing other candidates than her”, concludes Olivier Véran.
1:59 p.m. – Jadot wants to overtax “those who benefit from fuel price increases on the backs of the French”
Yannick Jadot announced, on the occasion of the grand jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI, its desire to “overtax the excess profits” of “those who benefit from rising fuel prices on the backs of the French”.
1:27 p.m. – Yannick Jadot will appoint a woman Prime Minister if elected
Guest on the set of grand jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI, the environmental candidate for the presidential election Yannick Jadot has announced that, if he is elected President of the Republic, he is called, “in principle”, a woman in the post of Prime Minister. “There must be parity at the head of the executive and I would keep it being a President of the Assembly” he added.