11 days before the legislative elections, the president of the RN Jordan Bardella wanted to reassure, this Wednesday, June 19, about his foreign policy, excluding “calling into question the commitments” of France internationally in terms of defense. Gérald Darmanin, for his part, announced his desire to dissolve the GUD (Groupe union defense), an ultra-right student union known for its violent actions. The boss of the RN also assured that he would dissolve “all ultra-left and ultra-right organizations” if he were to come to power.
Information to remember
⇒ The proposals of the RN and the New Popular Front are “dangerous”, according to Medef
⇒ Darmanin wants to dissolve the GUD, Bardella follows suit
⇒ Bardella does not want to call into question France’s international commitments
The proposals of the RN and the New Popular Front are “dangerous” for the economy, according to Medef
Medef, the leading French employers’ organization, on Wednesday judged the measures proposed by the National Rally and the New Popular Front in view of the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7 to be “inappropriate” and “dangerous” for the French economy. Medef estimated that “if these programs materialize in 2024 or later”, they would cause “tax increases, […] the departure of foreign investors and massive business bankruptcies”, in a document detailing the organization’s “ten conditions” “for the economic success of France”, including economic reforms.
The Protestant Federation warns of the “dangerous impasse” of the “extremes”
The Protestant Federation of France (FPF) warned this Wednesday of the “dangerous impasse” of “extreme parties” in the run-up to the legislative elections, recalling that “nothing is built on the hatred of others”.
“While the legislative elections should allow a constructive democratic debate, too short deadlines and unrealistic demagogic promises threaten to sow deep disorder,” deplores the president of the FPF Christian Krieger in a press release. For the federation “the three main political parties are pushing voters to vote by rejection rather than by support, risking in the second round of trapping the French in a difficult choice between the racism of the extreme right and the anti-Semitism of the extreme left” .
Courbevoie rape: Macron calls for “time for discussions” in schools on racism and anti-Semitism
Emmanuel Macron asked, this Wednesday during the Council of Ministers, that “a time of discussion” be organized in the coming days in schools on racism and anti-Semitism following the rape in Courbevoie (Hauts-de -Seine) of a young Jewish girl.
The Head of State made “solemn and serious words on the scourge of anti-Semitism” during the Council of Ministers, his entourage indicated. By wanting these discussions, he wants to ensure that “hate speech carrying serious consequences” does not “infiltrate” into educational establishments, it was added.
The RN withdraws its support for one of its candidates after an anti-Semitic tweet
The National Rally indicated on Wednesday that it no longer gave its support to one of its candidates in Morbihan, Joseph Martin, a flame party executive who had published an anti-Semitic message on social networks in 2018, never erased or denied.
“He no longer has the support of the National Rally, he is suspended and will be summoned with a view to his exclusion,” the RN told AFP, recalling that it was not possible to withdraw his candidacy.
Darmanin wants to dissolve the GUD, Bardella follows suit
Gérald Darmanin announced this Wednesday that he was going to “propose to the President of the Republic” the dissolution of the GUD (Groupe union defense), an ultra-right student union known for its violent actions, very active in the 1970s and recently reactivated.
“It’s a very friendly group with a lot of people from the National Rally […] These are people who think that there is white supremacy, who make extremely serious anti-Semitic remarks,” said the Minister of the Interior on BFMTV, adding that he had been working on this issue for “nine months”. “I didn’t wait for this legislative election”, he continued. According to a source close to the matter at AFP, the adversarial procedure has been initiated.
A few hours later, the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, also assured that he would dissolve “all ultra-left and ultra-right organizations” if he were to come to power, including the GUD.
“If tomorrow I am at the head of the country, I will not have any form of tolerance towards those who engage in violence in our country,” he said from the Eurosatory defense exhibition, believing that the Minister of the Interior “should, in view of his record, be called to a little more humility and start packing his boxes”.
Bardella does not want to call into question France’s international commitments
The president of the National Rally and candidate for Matignon, Jordan Bardella, “does not intend to call into question the commitments” of France internationally in terms of defense if he comes to power, he stressed.
“I have a red line. I do not intend to call into question the commitments made by France on the international scene, there is an issue of credibility with regard to our European partners and our NATO allies “, declared Jordan Bardella at the Eurosatory defense exhibition in Villepinte. In 2022, Marine Le Pen, campaigning for the presidential election, promised to “leave the integrated command” of NATO, in the name of “independence” from France.
A controversy over gender change
The Elysée defended on Wednesday Emmanuel Macron’s controversial position against “free sex change in town hall” which he took as an example of the “totally ludicrous things” appearing, according to him, in the electoral program of the New Front popular.
“The president has a record of progress on societal issues like few of his predecessors,” his entourage pleaded with AFP. He “considers, however, that free sex change in town hall is not a social project that he defends in view of the complexity of all the questions that this raises among the people concerned who must be supported when they decide to take such a step,” his entourage told AFP. The left alliance proposes to “authorize the change of civil status freely and free of charge before a civil status officer”.
Emmanuel Macron’s comments were deemed “unworthy” by LFI leader Jean-Luc-Mélenchon on the social network X, Tuesday. He believes that the president “ignores the amount of suffering that this implies for the people concerned.” For the rebellious François Ruffin, Emmanuel Macron “has chosen his camp, for him the authoritarian national is better than the Popular Front”.
Edouard Philippe castigates candidates at Matignon who have “never managed anything”
On the sidelines of a trip to the Marne on Tuesday, former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe declared that he had “a doubtful look at those who claim that they are ready” to occupy Matignon “while they have never had anything managed”. He thus cited the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, promised to Matignon in the event of his party’s success.
“I know it’s hard, Prime Minister. I know it’s going quickly, there are a lot of subjects to deal with,” the current mayor of Le Havre and Emmanuel Macron’s Prime Minister from 2017 recalled in Reims to 2020. “It’s difficult to manage a municipality, all the mayors will tell you that. And it’s more difficult to manage the State,” concluded Edouard Philippe.
Oudéa-Castéra denounces support for the RN of ex-champion Guy Drut
Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra was outraged on Tuesday by the comments of former Olympic champion Guy Drut. In an interview published the same day In The worldhe declared himself in favor of an alliance between The Republicans (LR), the party from which he came, and the National Rally (RN).
“I remain and I will vote Les Républicains, Éric Ciotti tendency, because I approve of the union of the rights and the alliance with the National Rally (RN),” declared Guy Drut, former Minister of Sports under the government of Alain Juppé (1995-1997). Comments which provoked the indignation of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra on the social network : “What a decline. The new recruits of the RN are in its image: all inconsistency and incoherence”, she published.