After yesterday’s nomination of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential elections, the French media reported on the “re-duel” of the 2017 finalists. According to commentators, the second round this time will be more difficult for the incumbent, and Marine Le Pen has a real chance of winning.
The conservative Figaro wrote in today’s issue that “the second leg, which the French allegedly did not want, will still take place.” The newspaper called Emmanuel Macron the favorite for the second round, but emphasized that the head of state would have to deal with a “protest bloc” that he should not underestimate.
“A choice that hasn’t been made since the 1980s.”
The center-left Le Monde, in turn, said that the second round will be a duel “France of directors and pensioners against the France of workers, cities against the periphery, European integration against national sovereignty.” The daily also noted that Macron and Le Pen created “political chaos” because they “crushed the traditional parties that formed the Fifth Republic.”
Scary this time, he wrote on the cover of Liberation. “Marine Le Pen has achieved her first goal of de-diolization,” the left-wing daily said, adding that the nationalist leader “has a real backlog of votes that could allow her to win in the second round,” and that it is not clear whether the left will have a new electorate mobilizes again to prevent Le Pen from coming to power.
The capital’s daily newspaper Le Parisien commented on the results of yesterday’s vote, writing that the second round would be “a social choice not made in France since 1981 and the election of the socialist François Mitterrand.”