French voters move to the right

At the moment, Emmanuel Macron leads all opinion polls. But in France, voting takes place in two rounds. If no one in the first round on April 10 obtains an absolute majority – which is almost certain – the candidates with the most votes will move to the second, decisive round, on April 24.

So it could be Macron and Le Pen. That fight can get exciting. If those who voted for Zemmour and Pecres in the first round vote for Le Pen in the second round, Le Pen can score a high.

Macron and Le Pen also faced each other in the previous elections in 2017. Macron then received 66 percent of the vote and Le Pen 34 percent.

Purchasing power as a main topic

But since then, Le Pen has done a lot to adapt her far-right image to electoral desires. Her economic plans gave social improvements. About two-thirds of her electoral manifesto revolves around improving purchasing power: she wants to allocate billions of public money to financially support the French in various ways. “Bring their money back to the French!” It is a slogan you often use.

Zemmour and Beckers do not plan to use the state treasury on a large scale to support income. Political scientist Gil Evaldi noted last week that “Le Pen is now an economic leftist, a rhetorical populist and a traditionalist nationalist.” In short, he called it “social populism”. This is what distinguishes it from other right-wing candidates.”

This strategy does no harm to her. With rising gas, electricity and gasoline prices, purchasing power is once again the main theme of the election campaign.