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Traveling to the island of Sein on Tuesday June 18, the head of state castigated the program of the New Popular Front using the vocabulary of the extreme right. A perverse strategy which can only help bring the RN closer to power.
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In dire straits, the head of state takes out the big, staining red one. And in the context of this campaign for the legislative elections, which his deleterious decision to dissolve the National Assembly triggered, it is particularly irresponsible when the RN is more than ever at the gates of power. Traveling yesterday to the island of Sein (Finistère), Emmanuel Macron clearly made the New Popular Front his target, demonizing it with excessive and even shocking words, straight out of the far-right term. Which can only benefit from such a strategy which has just validated its political proposal. So much so that we wonder what perverse game the tenant of the Elysée is playing.
During an exchange with residents, the President of the Republic affirmed that the program of the united left contained societal proposals “completely ludicrous”. He cited the fact that trans people can now record their change of gender on their marital status (and not of sex as he said) by a simple visit to town hall, without the need, as is
