French elections 2022 live: Latest polls as Macron and Le Pen present the nation’s final pitches

More Emmanuel Macron media interviews this morning.

The president said that EU countries must not allow a new Iron Curtain to fall across the continent – but it is also important to take into account the different views within the bloc towards Russia and the war in Ukraine.

The two candidates are making media tours as the election date approaches.

“I’ve spent eight months in this presidential campaign trying to get the French out of the abstention,” Marine Le Pen said this morning.

The far-right leader said she believed the split between the French people and their representatives could be ended with “democratic tools” including proportional representation and referendums by the population themselves.

Emmanuel Macron has said he has not managed to quell some of the anger the country is feeling and that his far-right rival Marine Le Pen is using some of that in her campaign.

“And there we have it. It made some progress, covered itself by turning this into our problem, and was able to build on that,” the president – hoping to be re-elected at the weekend – told France Inter radio.

A YouGov poll indicated that Brexit supporters want far-right candidate Marine Le Pen to become France’s president.

At least 37 percent of Conservative Party voters supported the right-wing leader, while only 24 percent backed the centrist Emmanuel Macron.

The two will compete head-to-head in Sunday’s crucial run-off, with polls putting Macron six points ahead of his rival.

The margin is larger among Leave voters in the 2016 Brexit referendum, who favor Ms Le Pen over the incumbent by 35 per cent to 19 per cent.

At her last campaign rally in Arras, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen urged voters to choose between “Macron and France”.

“to block [Macron]She told her supporters, according to France 24, you can not abstain.

“You should vote for the only truly republican front, the anti-Macron front,” she added.

Le Pen criticized her opponent’s “unlimited arrogance”, presenting herself as a “national president who would respect the French” compared to Mr Macron “who doesn’t like them”.

Incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen made a last-ditch effort Thursday to woo voters ahead of Sunday’s presidential election.

As Ms Le Pen drove to her stronghold in Arras, Macron visited the multicultural Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, where far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon made significant progress during the first round of voting.

According to French election rules, all campaigning must end by midnight on Friday.

After Wednesday’s fiery marathon debate, Macron had a 6-13 lead over Le Pen, according to the latest polls.

In the final phase of the campaign, incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron tried to curry favor with disaffected left-wing voters, warning them of the consequences for the Muslim community if his far-right rival Marine Le Pen were to vote.

POLITICO reports that Macron accused his rival while visiting the multicultural city of Saint-Denis in Paris of trying to exclude foreign nationals from social housing.

For example, he said, “A young Moroccan woman with two children, who works in the hospital, was greeted every evening during the pandemic…With Madame Le Pen’s programme, we will withdraw her social housing and family benefits.”

“It is a program of discord,” Macron added, while criticizing Le Pen for “confusing terrorism, insecurity, immigration, Islam and Islamic extremism all the time.”

French voters go to the polls on Sunday, April 24 to decide who will be the next president.Joe Somerlad He writes).

A poll is expected to be released at exit 7pm GMT on Sunday with the official final results announced the next day.

Macron won 27.8 percent of the vote 11 days ago versus Le Pen’s 23.1 percent, and is currently leading in opinion polls by as much as 56 percent to 44 percent, although Sunday’s vote is expected to prove a close contender. however.

French voters believe President Emmanuel Macron was the biggest winner in the televised political debate with far-right rival Marine Le Pen, but they also think he appeared arrogant, according to an opinion poll (Borzo Daragahi He writes).

The poll conducted by Elabe for French TV channel BFM and Express The magazine, indicated that 59 percent of viewers saw Macron as the winner of the fiery confrontation with Le Pen, who was seen as the winner by only 39 percent.

The French leader, according to numerous opinion polls, is expected to win the vote on Sunday with between 52 and 56 percent of the vote. But Le Pen, who won only a third of the vote in the 2017 election match against Macron, is still within walking distance, and her rival’s surprise victory cannot be ruled out.

Among the supporters of the left-wing candidate in the first round of the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, 61 percent saw Macron as the winner of the debate, compared to 36 percent who considered Ms. Le Pen to be the winner.

An opinion poll showed that Emmanuel Macron stayed ahead of his rival Marine Le Pen in the French presidential race after a heated television debate on Wednesday.

The incumbent was seen as a re-election winner with 56 percent of the vote unchanged, according to an April 20-21 survey by OpinionWay/Kea Partners.

But uncertainty about the final outcome remained high as the poll also predicted voter turnout of 72 percent – which would be the lowest since 1969.

A separate poll conducted by Elabe for BFM TV showed that viewers of the only debate among the finalists considered Macron vulnerable to fits of arrogance, but they also found him more persuasive and fit to be president.

Ms Le Pen, who has focused on expressing sympathy for people she said have “suffered” since she was overtaken by Macron in 2017, was judged more in line with voters’ concerns, but her far-right views are still seen as more troubling, according to the report. The poll showed.