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 revealed this Monday, June 24, the main axes of the RN program when Gabriel Attal, campaigning in Dijon, tries to reduce the gap with the left and the far right .
Information to remember
⇒ Jordan Bardella: a “big bang of authority” at school
⇒ Mélenchon “will not be Prime Minister”, assures Marine Tondelier
⇒ Macron: the result of the legislative elections will be “no one’s fault”
Mélenchon “won’t be prime minister”
The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon “is not the leader of the New Popular Front and he will not be Prime Minister”, declared this Monday the boss of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier to AFP.
Within the different parties that make up the left alliance, the PS, LFI, the PCF and the Ecologists, “there is an agreement to say that the Prime Minister must be found by consensus among the different political forces”, affirms Marine Tondelier, who specifies that the candidate must agree with all four parties.
Macron: the result of the legislative elections will be “no one’s fault”
Emmanuel Macron declared this Monday that the result of the legislative elections, on the evening of July 7, would be “no one’s fault” but an expression of the “responsibility of the French”.
“Beyond your anger – she spoke, I heard her, I’m giving you the floor again – what do you want? Look at the projects” of each one, he said. launched in a “Do It Yourself Generation” podcast.
This podcast, hosted by Matthieu Stefani, presents itself as one which “goes to meet those who have built themselves by themselves”. “It will be no one’s fault on the evening of the second round. It will be the responsibility of the French. And for me, it’s not a bet (that I’m making, Editor’s note), it’s a confidence (that I have)” in the voters, he added. “I know what I asked of my ministers, of my majority, of deputies who have sometimes been with me for seven years, who have changed their lives to be at my side and I thank them for that. I told them ‘ we have to go back,’” he noted.
Jordan Bardella: a “big bang of authority” at school
The former head of the European list revealed this Monday the main axes of the program of a possible RN government and assured that it was “the only” “credible” alternative. “Revival of purchasing power, recovery of our immigration,” he detailed.
Jordan Bardella, leader of the RN for the legislative elections, also proposed on Monday “a big bang of authority” at school “from the start of the school year in September”, in particular with the ban on mobile phones in establishments and the wearing a uniform. “Mobile phones will be banned in schools including high schools”, “teachers’ attendance will be compulsory and experiments with wearing uniforms will be continued: I am, personally, in favor of its introduction in primary schools, but also in college,” he explained during a press conference in Paris.
The Mayor fears for “civil peace” with the RN in power
The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, said on Monday he feared for “civil peace” in France if the National Rally (RN) comes to power during the early legislative elections. “I fear for order, yes,” declared Bruno Le Maire on franceinfo, when asked if he feared for civil peace in the coming weeks or months.
“I fear for relations between citizens. I fear for serenity. I fear for civil peace, the peace of French society, quite simply because the National Rally may show a friendly face today, as soon as you go into the back room, it’s a lot less glamorous,” he explained.
Laurent Berger dismisses the idea of an appointment to Matignon
“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.