It was their lieutenants Gabriel Attal and Manuel Bompard who participated on Tuesday June 25 in the first debate of the legislative elections against Jordan Bardella. In this campaign, Emmanuel Macron and Jean-Luc Mélenchon have ants in their legs, but are not welcome. They arouse suspicion and rejection, but want to participate at all costs.
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Emmanuel Macron And Jean-Luc Mélenchon have one thing in common: they appear as foils in the legislative campaign.
Emmanuel Macron, who pronounced the surprise dissolution of the National Assembly, provoked the anger of the French, but also of the executives and deputies of the majority who ask him only one thing: to remain silent. Because on the ground, it is he, the head of state, who concentrates the criticism.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon is not better off. He is unanimously against him among his allies in the New Popular Front – socialists, ecologists – who especially do not want to hear about him becoming Prime Minister.
Both were masters of the game in 2022 after the presidential election, today, they have become polluters of the campaign, obliged for Emmanuel Macron to let Gabriel Attal lead the legislative battle, for Jean-Luc Mélenchon to proclaim to reassure that ‘it is not ” candidate for nothing “. But while specifying for the first that he will not resign after July 7, for the second that he “ not eliminated » of the race at Matignon, just to remind us that neither of them intends to let themselves be erased from the photo for too long.
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