In an attempt to dilute the strong advantage that the far-right has National Renewal (RN) in the voting intention polls for the legislative elections, he French government has been put in electoral mode. The campaign has begun unofficially in a brutal way, with a country that has just accepted the new call after the European Championships last Sunday and is amazed at the possibility that the RN can access the Government.
The Executive’s offensive began with the announcement of a series of measures in different fields in which the RN has managed to surpass it in the perception of a large part of the French, such as tougher measures against youth crime and violence and more control over activities. of prisoners in prisons.
Besides, Gabriel Attal, The French Prime Minister announced that a decree will be approved before July 1 to implement the unemployment benefit reform. This measure was highly criticized by the unions because it toughens the conditions for payment as a measure to encourage the unemployed to accept the first job that is offered to them.
Attal then visited Boulougne sur Mer, in the department of Pas-de-Calais, a traditional stronghold of the extreme right of Marine Le Pen where he declared that he debated with citizens while other parties plot alliances behind closed doors. He also accused the RN of “playing Santa Claus” with electoral promises that he knows he will not be able to keep.
In the government field, the president’s approval rating Emmanuel Macron has fallen to as much as 24 percent this month. This is the lowest rate since the beginning of his second term, according to Elabe’s monthly survey for Les Echos published today.
Meanwhile, the internal war for control of the conservative The Republicans (LR)continued between the president Ciottiand the party’s executive commission, which decided yesterday expel him for making an agreement on his own with the lepenist extreme right. Ciotti went to his office at the party headquarters and looked out the window to tell journalists that he was still in front.
Above all, he filed an urgent judicial appeal against the decision of the executive commission, on the basis that there had violated the party’s statutes. The judicial court of Paris will study this appeal tomorrow, Friday, to decide as soon as possible on its validity.
The executive committee was going to meet again late this afternoon to revalidate its decision, as it ensures that, after making the decision yesterday unanimously, it now has enough signatures from elected officials to confirm it. However, the party reported that this appointment was postponed to tomorrow, Friday for “organizational reasons.”
Even so, one of the rebel leaders to Ciotti, François Xavier Bellamy, He acknowledged today that, if he had to choose in a second round between a far-right from RN or a leftist from La Francia Insumisa, he would choose the former. For now, Ciotti and the two great figures of the RN, Marine le Pen and Jordan Bardellaheld a lunch today whose content or results have not been revealed.
On the left, discussions continue about the program of his new ‘Popular Front’ and who could be his candidate for prime minister, a position for which the founder of LFIthe caustic Jean Luc Melenchonhas not been ruled out.
At the moment, the negotiations on the distribution of candidates seemed stuck since LFI, although it has yielded to candidates from the P.S. many electoral districts, in the vast majority of them the left has hardly any chance of victory, which is why it is working on a rebalance, according to sources in the process.
One of the main figures of Socialist Party (PS), Carole Delga, president of the region of New Aquitaine (southwest), stressed today that this alliance must “propose a credible, social and ecological alternative”, so Mélenchon “will not be prime minister”.
Prime Minister Attal, who joined the ranks of Macronism after serving in the PS, He threw several darts at his old formation for allying with parties like LFI or the small New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), whom he classifies as having anti-Semitic tendencies for refusing to recognize the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7. Attal, who recalled his former membership in the PS, described “deal of shame” that the socialists are going to ally themselves with parties with tendencies that he described as anti-Semitic or anti-secular.
And at the other end of the political arc, the ultranationalist leader Eric Zemmour, today described as a “world record of betrayal” the abandonment of his Reconquista party that was announced yesterday by several newly elected MEPs last Sunday, led by Marion Marechal (niece of Marine Le Pen), in order to support the RN in search of a “patriotic” majority.
(With information from EFE)
