80 years of the Landings, war in Ukraine and Europeans: Emmanuel Macron guest on the 8 p.m. news this Thursday evening

Emmanuel Macron sur France 2, TF1, LCI et France Info ce jeudi à 20 heures. MAXPPP – Alexis Sciard

This Thursday, June 6, Emmanuel Macron is the guest on the 8 p.m. news on TF1 and France 2. An intervention three days before the European elections, which should focus on the anniversary of the D-Day landings. What to expect ?

With 3 days to go before the election, Emmanuel Macron will give an interview on Thursday that is as eagerly awaited as it is contested by the opposition to the 8 p.m. news on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, while the candidates are throwing their last forces into the European campaign.

On the eve of the official end of the campaign, around half of those registered do not currently intend to go to the polls – or the many who are undecided. Major offensive, the head of state must speak on TF1, France 2, but also LCI and FranceInfo.

Remarks will be closely monitored

Certainly, the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings, duly celebrated during the day at Omaha Beach (Calvados) in the presence of around twenty heads of state and government is forward through the Élysée to justify the intervention. The interview could allow him to announce additional aid to Ukraine but also to address the European vote, to the great dismay of the oppositions, who have seized the ;Arcom.

The audiovisual policeman had to remind Tuesday that "all or part of the remarks made during this interview could be taken into account&quot ;in the speaking time of the list of the presidential camp and the other lists must benefit in return from '"equitable access" to antennae.

Marine Le Pen, who also denounced this interview, also quipped Wednesday on BFMTV: "The more Emmanuel Macron speaks, the more he mobilizes for (the) list& ;quot; of the National Rally.

The head of state is "obsessed with only one thing: it's the score of the National Rally on Sunday", added Thursday the head of the list RN Jordan Bardella on Europe1-Cnews. "If Emmanuel Macron does not arrive very far behind the list of National gathering, he will feel himself growing wings and he will accelerate", he added, citing the increase in the price of gas, the reform of unemployment insurance or the deindexation of retirement pensions.

The polls are not taking off

Conversely, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal dramatized the stakes of the vote on France 2 in the face of the expected victory of the far right on Sunday. "Europe was born thanks to France, it must not die because of France", he declared , repeating refusal that "the face of France in Europe changes from that of Simone Veil (former President of the European Parliament, editor's note) to that of Marine Le Pen".

Despite the notable involvement of the head of government for several days in the campaign, the list of the presidential majority is slipping in the polls: 15% of voting intentions, according to an Ifop study published on Wednesday, very far behind that of the RN , credited with 33%.

Valérie Hayer must hold her last meeting on Thursday, alongside Edouard Philippe, in Nice. The Côte-d'Azur has also established itself as the center of the end of the campaign having hosted the public meetings of François-Xavier Bellamy (LR) and Marion Maréchal (LR) the day before. Reconquest!), the latter coming close to the threshold of 5% of voting intentions which allows MEPs to be sent to the Strasbourg hemicycle.

Eva Joly, Martine Aubry

The head of the Europe-Ecologie-Les Verts list, Marie Toussaint, faced with the same risk, will try to reverse the trend by appearing on Thursday noon during a Parisian campaign with Eva Joly , unsuccessful environmentalist candidate in the 2012 presidential election, still very popular in her party.

Her competitor from La France insoumise, Manon Aubry (8% voting intentions), is expected in the evening in Lyon in the presence of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

The radical left movement has in recent days stepped up its efforts in working-class neighborhoods, which it perceives as the greatest reservoirs of potential votes.

Several of his lieutenants took part in a large door-to-door campaign on Wednesday in a district of Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), in the southern suburbs of Paris, before organizing a similar exercise on Friday in Marseille.

With 13.5% voting intentions, the PS, whose list is led by Raphaël Glucksmann, intends to regain the advantage among the parties of the ex-Nupes, especially if he achieved the feat of climbing to second place on the podium – which no poll has yet promised him, but the gap that separates him from the Macronists is within the margin of error.

Last boost expected by Mr. Glucksmann: that of Martine Aubry, during a meeting in her city of Lille, Friday evening. Just before the silence imposed on all the candidates until the counting of the votes.