The media boss, who positions himself “between a social democrat and a guilty Christian”, predicts that the legislative elections will leave an Assembly divided into “three equal thirds”.
Michel-Edouard Leclerc, president of the strategic committee of distribution leader E.Leclerc, said he was worried about the “influence” and “credibility” of France after a dissolution which risks leading to an ungovernable country. With the dissolution of the National Assembly, “Macron avoided comments on his defeat (in the European elections) by overturning the chessboard,” declared Michel-Edouard Leclerc, on the sidelines of a press visit to the new Henri Cartier exhibition. -Bresson at the Hélène and Edouard Leclerc Culture Fund in Landerneau (Finistère).
But the media boss, who positions himself “between a social democrat and a guilty Christian”, predicts that the legislative elections will leave an Assembly divided into “three equal thirds”. “If we have one or two years of non-governability or poor governability, that means that Ukraine will find itself a little more alone, that Putin will have wings, and that Europe will be weakened,” he said. continued Michel-Edouard Leclerc, who chairs the board of directors of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (Iris).
“In the European sphere, we are losing our audience share, our credibility. It is a sort of barrier raised against Putin,” he added. “What scares me is not France’s internal balance of power, it’s that we are entering an era of turbulence for Europe, between the possible arrival of Trump and the weakening of the Eastern Front.
“We are living in a period that is not glorious,” he continued, saying he was “stunned” by the “lack of substance” of political leaders.
“Too late” to mobilize against inflation
For the Breton boss, the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella owes his success to his personality: “a young man of 28, well dressed, who bluffs everyone a little. It was a real added value”. But above all, “there is something inexplicable, incongruous, indecent in the fact that most politicians have not spoken out against inflation. They are now doing so by talking about taxing super profits. But that was before we had to mobilize, now it’s too late,” declared the man who regularly poses as a defender of the purchasing power of the French.
“The failure of the coalition in power is not having sensed this popular demand. Yet, we came out with yellow vests, it’s incredible!”, he exclaimed, pointing out the “disconnection of parliamentarians ” in relation to “popular requests”.
“It’s a reality that has probably contributed to Bardella’s success,” he added.
