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Five years ago, Le Pen suffered a huge defeat for open screen. Now she wants to avoid it happening again | Elections in France | DR Tonight, France's two presidential candidates meet for a decisive election duel in front of millions of Frenchmen. French presidential election.For the eyes of millions of French people who followed from home, the right-wing nationalist politician fought to win the verbal battle with his center-liberal main challenger. But without success. Where Emmanuel Macron rumbled profusely out there for the two and a half hours the debate lasted, Marine Le Pen seemed both unprepared and pressured. The debate was a failure for which I came to pay a very high price. Marine Le Pen, presidential candidateAnd even though she accused the opponent, among other things, of being the banner bearer of "a barbaric globalization", which would tear the rug away under France, she did not really manage to defend herself against the counter-attacks that came from the otherwise somewhat untested opponent on the other side of the table.- I treat the French like adults. You lie all the time, it sounded bone-chilling from Emmanuel Macron, who followed up by calling her both "a parasite" and "the high priestess of fear". She herself has explained that she was exhausted before the fateful debate, which was seen by many as the death knell for her. - The debate was a failure for which I came to pay a very high price, earlier this year to France Info. days later, she lost big to Emmanuel Macron. But tonight she hopes that everything will be different. At 21.00, Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will meet, who are once again vying for the presidency, namely for their first and only TV debate before the election on Sunday. And one thing is for sure: Marine Le Pen will, for all intents and purposes, avoid a resumption of the failure of 2017. If you look at the very intense context we are in right now, the winner of the debate may well win the election as well. Arnaud Mercier, Professor Debate, which will be shown on the major news channels, can have a huge impact on who gets the most votes on Sunday, when the election round takes place. Although Emmanuel Macron leads in, Marine Le Pen is much stronger than she did during the final sprint in 2017. According to the media, he stands to get 54 percent of the vote, while she stands at 46 percent. Five years ago, he won with as much as 66 percent of the vote. But France is a very divided country - between country and city as well as young and old - and millions of French people, not least those who voted on the left in the first round, have not yet done so. up with themselves, who they want to vote for, or whether they want to vote at all.- If you look at the very intense context we are in right now, then the winner of the debate may well also win the election, says Arnaud Mercier, there is a professor of political communication at the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas, for France Info. This time, Marine Le Pen has prepared extra well by, among other things, isolating herself in recent days with the closest allies, as the devil's lawyer to her in the trial debates Five years ago, among other things, she was hanged to dry, as she could not explain in detail how she would pull France out without it also affecting the French economy. It's situations like this she will avoid this time. I will not let you down! You give me energy and strength. Marine Le Pen, presidential candidate Her goal is both to go in the flesh of Emmanuel Macron's policy and to exhibit "the contempt" that she feels he has for both the French and herself. - I find him very violent , very brutal, very aggressive and even degrading to me, she told the TV station TF1.In addition, she has spent the last few years trying to appear more accommodating, broad-minded and presidential. Where she previously had a sharp focus on her strict foreign policy, this time she has focused on the French's personal finances and purchasing power under. She also appears more profitable than she did at the same time five years ago, and she has in recent weeks taken selfies with supporters around the country.- You give me energy and strength, Monday, when she met voters in Normandy.There is also a lot at stake for the incumbent president, although his campaign team has tried to talk the significance of the debate somewhat down. As everyone will compare tonight's debate with that of five years ago, even the slightest improvement on the part of Marine Le Pen will be seen as a defeat for Emmanuel Macron. In addition, he has among many voters an image of being both arrogant and well-informed, and can go and become a problem in the debate, where he must try to lure especially frustrated left-wing voters to.She spends a lot of time preparing. I'm still threatened by this debate, so it's really serious. Emmanuel Macron, presidential candidate According to France 24, Emmanuel Macron is going to "unravel and reveal her election program". Among other things, her economic policy, which according to the president is incoherent and dangerous for the French small savers, as well as her climate policy, which he claims will be detrimental to the climate fight. Marine Le Pen wants, among other things, if she wins. In addition, several of his allies have in recent days been out to emphasize that the re-election is not at home. And the presidential duels have previously cracked incumbent French presidents. Therefore, all the practical details surrounding the debate itself have also been prepared down to the smallest detail. For example, there must be 19 degrees in the study, the exact distance between the candidates and the two journalists who lead the debate has been carefully agreed, and lots had to be drawn on the order of the eight topics, including purchasing power, welfare and climate, as the two must talk about. They could not agree on this in advance. - She spends a lot of time preparing. I'm still threatened in this debate, so it's really serious, President Macron said.