The president of the national rally will not appear in the elections of June 12 and 19 but hears “do not give gifts” to the rival party of Eric Zemmour.
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Jordan Bardella had an unhappy sentence in Fréjus (Var), launching the legislative campaign on Thursday April 28. “Emmanuel Macron was for more than five years an authoritarian leader who confiscated a large part of the freedoms of the French people,” said – and repeated – the president of the National Rally (RN). “If 450 to 500 Macron deputies are found from June in the National Assembly, then there will be no more matter to criticize other forms of regimes elsewhere in the world, he said. We said. would move away from the idea of a mature democracy, it will not then be necessary to come and bring criticism to regimes where democracy can be less developed. I think of Russia, for example. “
Stupor. If Emmanuel Macron has 450 deputies, France will not be better than Russia? “Do not make me say what I have not said,” said the European deputy, but I think it will be complicated to give lessons in democracy if Emmanuel Macron must have full powers. “Jordan Bardella did not Not seemed to understand the enormity of the comparison, and he did so much his parallel between a democratically elected parliamentary majority and a dictatorial regime that has just invaded a neighboring country.
For the rest, the president of the RN confirmed that Marine Le Pen would be a candidate for his re-election in her fief of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais), and announced for his part that he would not seek not to be elected to the National Assembly. “I am a European deputy, I wish to go after my mandate and I will have the opportunity to fight other battles in the coming months,” assured Jordan Bardella – he actually does not have material time to spend four days in a constituency and to manage a complicated party in Paris.
“The objective is clear, send the maximum of patriotic deputies to the assembly,” he announced, but he was careful not to give a quantified objective. He recalled that “with a historic number of votes never reached in the second round” of the presidential election, just over 13 million votes, the candidate of the RN Marine Le Pen had come first in 30 departments, 18,000 Communes (and 22,000 in the first round), and that the RN exceeded 40 % in 349 constituencies: a solid base to constitute “a powerful group in the National Assembly”.
“The phone heats a lot “
The RN will therefore present in the first round of the legislative elections 577 candidates, and remains “under discussion” on some constituencies to support “people who would come from other political parties, who would be disappointed and who would be led to join us”. There will be no alliances, despite calls for the help of the executives of Eric Zemmour (reconquest!), “Because we consider that, in the first round, each political movement must make the project prevail that He defended as part of the presidential campaign “. In the second, the RN says it is “perfectly disposed” to provide its support for patriotic candidates “the best placed, including those of Eric Zemmour,” if there could be “.
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