{"id":1426020,"date":"2022-04-08T16:14:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T20:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426020"},"modified":"2022-04-08T16:14:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T20:14:53","slug":"macron-boasts-of-having-spirit-of-conquest-on-eve-of-french-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/macron-boasts-of-having-spirit-of-conquest-on-eve-of-french-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron Boasts of Having &#039;Spirit of Conquest&#039; on Eve of French Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmacron-boasts-of-having-spirit-of-conquest-on-eve-of-french-elections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426020&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">PARIS (AP) \u2013 President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he has no fear of losing France\u2019s presidential election despite populist rival Marie Le Pen narrowing the gap in opinion polls ahead of Sunday\u2019s first-round vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have the spirit of conquest rather than the spirit of defeat,\u201d Macron said in an interview with RTL radio on the final day of campaigning. But he cautiously added, \u201cNothing is ever a given.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Le Pen, running in her third presidential race, has consistently placed second behind frontrunner Macron in polls. She appeared to close the gap even further according to a BVA poll published showing her just 3 per cent behind Macron\u2019s 26 per cent. Other polls have given a 5-6 point difference between the two.<\/p>\n<p>If the polls mirror election results, Macron and Le Pen would repeat the 2017 scenario, squaring off in a second round on April 24th. Macron won by a landslide five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Le Pen has expended much energy to take the edge off her National Rally party in order to make it more appealing to voters. She has softened her image even more and made purchasing power the centrepiece of her campaign, but hasn\u2019t given up what she\u2019s best known for \u2014 stopping the \u201cmigratory submersion\u201d and fighting radical Islamists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf Emmanuel Macron had enriched the country, excuse me but we wouldn\u2019t be talking about purchasing power,\u201d Le Pen said at her final rally Thursday evening in the town of Perpignan whose right-wing mayor is her former companion Louis Aliot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shock Poll Puts Marine Le Pen Ahead of Macron in French Presidential Second Round<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ydmWYRwp3o\">https:\/\/t.co\/ydmWYRwp3o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1512354708614262789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Macron cited his presidential duties, notably the war in Ukraine, to justify his absence during much of the campaign, which has been criticized by other candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Turnout could be the deciding factor in the election and could harm Le Pen\u2019s chances most because her voter base is composed of voters who tend to stay at home on election day.<\/p>\n<p>In Perpignan, Le Pen sought to rally supporters including those mulling to cast their vote for novice populist right-wing candidate Eric Zemmour, a former TV pundit whose bid for the presidency is based largely on the migration issue. He stands in fourth place in the polls, behind far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will give the country back to the French people,\u201d Le Pen said. \u201cIt will be up to the French people to decide who is worthy of becoming French.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also appealed to supporters to cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Man Fined \u20ac10,000 for Portraying Macron as Hitler Over Vaccine Passports <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l0POBbGpY1\">https:\/\/t.co\/l0POBbGpY1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1439915240288776195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (AP) \u2013 President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he has no fear of losing France\u2019s presidential election despite populist rival Marie Le Pen narrowing the gap in opinion polls ahead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}