For the European elections, the presidential majority has decided to set up a face-to-face meeting with the National Rally (RN). On the occasion of the launch of the Renaissance campaign for the June deadline, this Saturday March 9 in Lille, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal castigated the “vast deception” of the “Le Pen clan”, whose votes in the European Parliament are “a litany of betrayals against the interests of the French”.
“They have always said no to Europe. The only difference now is that they hide it a little and that the no has turned into a niet,” he criticized, after accusing the RN proximity to Vladimir Putin. “The record of the Le Pen clan is 40 years of European Parliament, 40 years of mandate allowances, 40 years of ghosts in the corridors of Brussels and Strasbourg,” insisted the Prime Minister, regarding Jean-Marie Le Pen and her daughter Marine.
“It’s a few signatures on the attendance registers to receive compensation, a few interventions to furnish on social networks,” he continued. “They tell us ‘France is coming back’. But what right do they have to speak in the name of France? They are the ones who left France. Where had they gone? To the Vienna ball dancing with neo-Nazis? In a identity congress to sing with the anti-Semites? In Moscow to seek the approval of Vladimir Putin? On a stool at the Starbucks in the Trump Tower to negotiate a selfie with Donald Trump that she ultimately never managed to have”, scathed Gabriel Attal on Marine Le Pen. “For the RN facing Russia, all weakness, all weakness is good,” continued the head of government.
Before the intervention of the head of the list Valérie Hayer, attacks multiplied against the RN, whose president Jordan Bardella is pragmatic in the polls. The far right takes “the people of the North, the common people for an electoral zoo”, launched the Minister of the Interior and former mayor of Tourcoing, Gérald Darmanin. The head of MoDem, François Bayrou, denounced those who say “we support Ukraine, but”: “saying I support but, that means you don’t support…”.
Relaying in turn the accusations of Marine Le Pen’s proximity to Vladimir Putin, the head of Horizons Edouard Philippe cited Churchill to criticize those who feed “a crocodile” hoping to be the last “to be eaten”.