After announcing on Tuesday that he would lead the campaign for the legislative elections as majority leader, the Prime Minister is back on the ground to campaign in Pas-de-Calais on the grounds of the National Rally.
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He is campaigning to avoid the worst ”, as he himself says. “ I am mobilizing fully so that the French choose a humanist, progressive voice, of political ethics, of progress rather than a voice which is based on the division of the French among themselves and on a decline “, declared the Prime MinisterGabriel Attal this Thursday while he was campaigning in the North of the France.
Remaining discreet in the first hours of the campaign, he had an appointment this Thursday, June 13, 2024 on the ground in a constituency where the National Rally had almost won in 2022. The Prime Minister endeavored to present his camp as the defender openness and tolerance » in the face of the projects of the extreme right and the extreme left. He took the opportunity to criticize his two adversaries: Jordan Bardella’s party and the far left.
“ An extreme right bloc that thrives on division, the opposition of the French among themselves, a project of economic ruin, of staggering amateurism: an extreme left project that also thrives on division, on opposition from each other, to communitarianism, to a form of disorder”, he criticized.
The campaign begins in an increasingly uncertain economic context and as proof, the Prime Minister was questioned more on everyday subjects such as floods, teachers’ overtime or the reform of unemployment insurance, contested on the left, which will indeed the subject of a decree “ by July 1 “.
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“ Good luck, because it’s not going to be easy »
On the other hand, the Prime Minister said he was in favor of a debate: “ If there is a debate, it must be between those who have more or less been identified as potentially Prime Minister at the end of these legislative elections. Indeed with Mr. Bardella for the extreme right and its allies and Mr. Mélenchon for the extreme left and its allies. » The rebellious leader declining the invitation: The Popular Front « has not yet designated its Prime Minister candidate (…) It is therefore up to the leaders of the major parties in our coalition to go to this type of debate “, he argued.
While the left-wing parties agreed this Thursday on a common program and on the distribution of constituencies, Gabriel Attal launches an appeal to voters who voted for Raphaël Glucksmann in the Europeans: “ I put myself in the place of voters who voted for Glucksmann’s list, I tell myself that they must feel so betrayed “. In the coming weeks, Gabriel Attal should increase his trips to the field.
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In any case, the campaign which has only just begun does not look like it will be easy. “ Good luck, because it’s not going to be easy », says a woman to the Prime Minister after taking a selfie with him in Boulogne-sur-Mer. “ It is by definition difficult. We are in a difficult moment, we have to convince the French, but I am not the type to give up », assures Gabriel Attal, the sleeves of his shirt rolled up.