INFO ACTU.FR. Presidential 2022: Emmanuel Macron will end his campaign in the Lot (and perhaps in Toulouse)
By Guillaume Laurent
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D-4 before the second round of the presidential election. WhileEmmanuel Macron faced Marine Le Pen in the sacrosanct televised debate between the two rounds, this Wednesday, the staff of the outgoing head of state, candidate for his succession, is already preparing his very last campaign trip, Friday 22 April 2022.
And according to our information, the event will be held again in the region, as in 2017. Three days before his accession to the Élysée, the candidate Macron had indeed held his final meeting in Albi (Tarn). Five years later, he is preparing to do it again and again throw his evolution on Occitania. But this time, it will be two days before the election. According to our sources, he planned to go to the Grounda department where he came first, and also intends to set sail for Toulousewhere he was clearly overtaken by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
In the Lot, at Martin Malvy… and in the footsteps of the Great Debate
In addition to a probable trip to the Pink City, Emmanuel Macron will certainly go to another department of Occitania on Friday. As in 2017, the Tarn, country of Jean-Jaurès, a time was mentioned, but it will finally go to the side of Ground, confirmed several concurring sources to Toulouse News and News Lot.
It is in fact to Figeacsub-prefecture of the department and stronghold of a certain Martin Malvy, former PS president of the Midi-Pyrénées Region (who called for a vote for him on Sunday), that the candidate Macron should hold his last campaign meeting on Friday, two days of placing its destiny in the hands of the French.
The Lot is a destination far from being chosen at random, since it is already here, on the side of Souillacthat the tenant of the Élysée, weakened by the crisis of yellow vests, had held in January 2019 the second stage of his famous “Great national debate”.
In Toulouse, “to confront the voters who did not vote for him”
For the Toulouse part of the visit, various hypotheses were still on the table on Wednesday evening. Among the avenues mentioned, Emmanuel Macron could participate in a workshop with residents, on the theme of educationin the district of mirail. The outgoing president would see it as an opportunity to defend his record (in particular the duplication of REP+ classes) and to present his program.
Why come to a neighborhood where a large majority of the population has come out in favor of… Jean-Luc Mélenchon? “The president likes to go to towns or neighborhoods where he did not win, to confront voters who did not vote for him and try to convince them”, relates a cacique from LREM.
Education is not the only theme applied, and the angle of his visit could still be assessed after the televised debate. Transportation, healtheven aeronautics and spatial : other specialties of the Pink City are also studied for this trip. But the principle of a visit to Toulouse – on which LREM was working even before the first round – does indeed hold the rope.
Bachelot and Dupont-Moretti were in Toulouse on Tuesday
While waiting for the arrival of candidate Macron in Occitania, his supporters welcomed Tuesday in Toulouse two heavyweights from Macronie: after strolling through shops in town, Roselyne Bachelot and Eric Dupont-Moretti, respectively Ministers of Culture and Justice, led a public meeting, Osète room, in the Pink City. In support? Walkers, but not only… The mayor (LR) of the fourth city in France Jean-Luc Moudencwho announced that he would vote for Emmanuel Macron, was also in the front row.
In addition to these highlights, which crystallize the media spotlight, LREM activists pound the pavement daily in Occitania, to convince undecided, abstainers and other mélenchonistes to give their votes to the current Head of State.
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