Tense exchange this Thursday evening on the set of The Event on France 2. The president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, and Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, leader of the presidential camp’s campaign (Ensemble), debated at knifepoint, leaving aside their opponent Olivier Faure, the first secretary of the Socialist Party, for long minutes. “France’s top liar”, “little slanderer”, “Mr. Attal is tense tonight”… Words flew from both sides, pushing Caroline Roux to reframe the debate.
At the origin of this clash, the recall of suspicions of anti-Semitism weighing on several RN candidates: “We cannot build appeasement [avec] a hundred candidates [RN] for which we found racist and anti-Semitic remarks”, retorted Gabriel Attal, citing the insulting remarks attributed to several elected officials invested by the far-right party.
“It’s false (…) these accusations no longer fool anyone,” defended Jordan Bardella, before stepping up to the plate in the face of the insistence of his interlocutor, who then accused him of “stigmatizing binational French people.” “: “If the National Rally did not exist, Mr. Attal would have lost his reason for doing politics (…), the French disavowed you very massively at the polls (…), you will never recover in question,” he said.
Olivier Faure then posed as an observer, deploring the “duo” that, in his eyes “for years”, Gabriel Attal and Jordan Bardella have formed. “In a debate, we also listen to others. This is also how we will make French women and men understand that the politicians of this country are also worthy of the trust that they sometimes place in us”, stressed the socialist. A war of words that allows the left to pass, once again, as the “quiet force” of this campaign for early legislative elections.
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