D-4 before the first round of the legislative elections. While the first major debate between Manuel Bompard, Gabriel Attal and Jordan Bardella was held this Tuesday, June 25, François Ruffin tackled Jean-Luc Mélenchon, accusing him of being “an obstacle” to the victory of the Front popular. On the right, Gérard Larcher attacked Emmanuel Macron, accusing him of being responsible for “a structural crisis of the regime”.
Information to remember
⇒ Outgoing MP Aurélien Pradié leaves Les Républicains
⇒ François Ruffin tackles Jean-Luc Mélenchon
⇒ Senate President Gérard Larcher fears “a structural regime crisis”
LR deputy Aurélien Pradié leaves the party, “dead” according to him
Outgoing MP Aurélien Pradié announced on Wednesday June 26 that he was leaving Les Républicains, a party he describes as “dead” which “is no longer capable of speaking to the French”, ensuring that he will run in the legislative elections under the label of his “Courage” micro-party. In an interview with La Dépêche, the MP for Lot, who has constantly criticized his party’s line since it was chaired by Eric Ciotti, affirms that “30 candidates including 10 outgoing candidates” are also running under the colors of his party.
The one who has sometimes taken iconoclastic positions within the Republicans – on the vote of the motion of censure against the government on the recent pension reform in particular – affirms to have “no longer the intention of asking authorization from some others to build something.
Mélenchon “repels voters” says Ruffin
The outgoing deputy François Ruffin, one of the candidates for the post of Prime Minister in the event of a victory for the left in the legislative elections, estimated on Tuesday June 25 that the leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon was an “obstacle to the victory of the Popular Front “. “It’s not support here for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, it’s rather something that repels voters,” said François Ruffin on TF1 from his constituency, where he is trying to get re-elected despite the very good scores of the Rally. nationally in the last European elections.
“It would be good if the leaders of La France insoumise were here,” he added, recalling the candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon for Hénin-Beaumont, against Marine Le Pen, during the 2012 legislative elections. between the two political leaders has been consummated since the “purge” of the “rebels” of La France insoumise. Within the New Popular Front, the socialists, communists and Ecologists want the founder of La France insoumise to be removed, considered too divisive by many, even on the left.
The three-time presidential candidate, with 22% in 2022, is content for the moment to say that he is not “eliminating” himself but is also not “imposing” himself for the post of Prime Minister, in the event of a victory for the left in the early legislative elections.
Attal, Bardella and Bompard cross swords on TF1
Gabriel Attal (Renaissance), Jordan Bardella (National Rally) and Manuel Bompard (New Popular Front) clashed over dual nationality, the defense of purchasing power and pensions on Tuesday evening, June 25 on TF1, while the far right is leading the polls five days before the first round of legislative elections presented as historic.
“We can act for purchasing power,” immediately launched the president of the National Rally, who made this subject his hobby horse, notably with a promise of an immediate reduction in VAT to 5.5% on fuels, electricity and gas. “How much does it cost and how do you finance it?” replied the Prime Minister, posing as a defender of budgetary seriousness.
The coordinator of La France insoumise, Manuel Bompard, sent his two adversaries back on the ropes, ironically accusing Jordan Bardella, “the future Prime Minister of purchasing power”, of having “little by little abandoned all the measures to answer to”. The three men also clashed on the subject of pensions, Jordan Bardella and Manuel Bompard wishing to return to the reform raising the legal retirement age to 64 years.
The President of the Senate fears “a structural regime crisis”
The President of the Senate Gérard Larcher feared “a structural regime crisis” after the legislative elections, trying to defend “another path” for the Republicans between “the extremes” and the macronie, during a public meeting in Paris on Tuesday June 25 to support Les Républicains candidate Patrick Dray in Paris.
Gérard Larcher noted “a major political crisis” and assured “to fear a structural regime crisis in the months to come”, born from the dissolution decided by the President of the Republic. “A brutal choice”, “rushed and improvised” according to the President of the Senate, who learned it “by telephone”, “in a minute and a half”, less than an hour before the Head of State’s announcement from the Elysée, he slipped.
Supporter of an “autonomous” line for LR, he said he refused “association with the presidential majority: we are not dependent on its policy. […] Emmanuel Macron is wrong to assert that the result of the legislative elections will not be ‘no one’s fault’. It will first be his fault, he will not be able to escape his responsibility forever,” he added, pleading for “another path between this Macronian immobility and the extremes which will bring chaos to the Assembly and dismiss the French back to back”.
The presidential camp making very slight progress in the polls
The left-wing NFP alliance is credited with 28.5% of voting intentions in the first round of the legislative elections, down by one point, with the presidential majority (Renaissance, MoDem and Horizons) progressing by 0.5 points. at 21%, according to the daily Ifop-Fiducial survey for LCI, Le Figaro and Sud Radio. Jordan Bardella’s party and the Republicans who joined it continue to lead the race with 36% of voting intentions.
The Independent Republicans and various right-wingers lose 0.5 points of voting intentions to 6.5%, with Eric Zemmour’s reconquest rising from 0.5 points to 1.5 points. In projection in the hemicycle of the Assembly – a very uncertain calculation before the two rounds – the RN remains credited with 220 to 260 seats, i.e. a majority only relative. Opposite, the NFP would garner 180 to 210 seats, the presidential majority Ensemble! 75 to 110 seats and the Republicans and various right-wingers 25 to 50 seats.