I promise, there will be “a change”: one week before the first round of the legislative elections, Emmanuel Macron and his troops assure that governance will be more collaborative in the event of victory, when the New Popular Front is mired in the leaders’ war for Matignon. Pushed by the polls but accused of backing down on measures, Jordan Bardella reveals the main axes of the RN program when Gabriel Attal, campaigning in Dijon, tries to reduce the gap with the left and the extreme right.
Information to remember
⇒ In a letter to the French, Macron promises “change”
⇒ Anti-Semitism: the New Popular Front denounces “a defamation campaign”
⇒ Jospin warns against the RN’s “underground project”
For Laurent Berger, “the first emergency” is to “avoid” a victory for the RN
“The first emergency is to avoid the RN”, not to know who will go to Matignon, judged in The world Monday the former general secretary of the CFDT Laurent Berger, whose name had been mentioned by Raphaël Glucksmann as possible Prime Minister in the event of a victory for the left.
“The subject, from now on, the first emergency, is to avoid the RN. This training provides no response to the economic, social, ecological and democratic challenges that we all face. It leads us towards a dead end,” said he declared in a daily interview. “Afterwards, the name of the personality who will go to Matignon is the least of my worries today”.
“The question (of an appointment to Matignon) does not arise. Everyone knows, I am in retreat from public life. I have neither the vocation nor the desire to reinvest in public life. If some think that Matignon interests me, I can assure you that my current life completely satisfies me,” he declared.
Macron’s letter to the French
“I heard that you want this to change”: in a letter published Sunday evening in the regional daily press, Emmanuel Macron outlined some perspectives for after July 7. And even though his camp finds itself in difficulty in the polls, he has vowed to “act until May 2027”, thus defeating the idea put forward by some of his adversaries, Marine Le Pen in the lead, that he will be forced to resign in the event of defeat.
Among his promises “much stronger and firmer responses” on “insecurity, impunity”. “The next government will have to overhaul childhood policy, better protect our young people and fight more strongly against all discrimination,” he also pleads, noting the “strong demand for social justice”.
The New Popular Front denounces “a defamation campaign”
The New Popular Front denounced Sunday in a tribune a “defamation campaign” on the fight against anti-Semitism, orchestrated according to him by a macronie in defeat”, when Raphaël Glucksmann and Place publique proposed a “charter of republican commitment” on the subject.
“We condemn with the greatest firmness those who use our Jewish compatriots as scapegoats for all the ills of the planet,” launch in a joint letter the leaders of the four parties making up the New Popular Front: Manuel Bompard (LFI), Olivier Faure (PS), Fabien Roussel (PCF) and Marine Tondelier (Ecologists).
Jospin warns against the RN’s “underground project”
Former socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin warned on Sunday against the “danger” represented, according to him, by the National Rally, carrying a “surface program” for these legislative elections which masks a “deep or underground project”.
Coming back to Emmanuel Macron’s strategy of sending the far right and the left-wing alliance “New Popular Front” back to back, Lionel Jospin affirmed on BFMTV that “the danger” came “more from the National Rally”. “The National Front (now RN, editor’s note) is going to these elections with what I would call a surface program, covered by respectability,” explained the man who led the government from 1997 to 2002.
For Yaël Braun-Pivet, the coalition is an “obligation”
The outgoing president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, who had pleaded with the president for a coalition before the dissolution, believes that this is now “an obligation”, and that the exercise of power at the end legislative elections will necessarily be more “parliamentary”.
“I think we are able to form a coalition of responsible parties, republicans who want the France ship to be able to move forward,” Yaël Braun-Pivet told AFP on Sunday, on the sidelines of a campaign trip to Vésinet (Yvelines). “Today the coalition is not an option, it is an obligation to preserve the France that we love,” she adds.
In the Basque Country, autonomists and left-wing parties together for the first time
In the Basque Country, the union of the left for the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7 includes candidates from an autonomist regionalist party: an alliance unprecedented in this territory and unique in France. Decided in a few days after the dissolution of the National Assembly by President Emmanuel Macron, it responds to “an effect of context”, judges Xabi Larralde, representative of the Basque autonomist party, “abertzale” (“patriot”, in French) of left, Euskal Herria Bai (EHBai).
“In this approach to blocking the far right, we needed to take responsibility to highlight the points that unite us.” He explains it by the involvement of local activists, socialists, ecologists or abertzale, “who got into the habit of crossing paths” in “ecological and peasant struggles, demands for the Basque language or access to housing” these last years.