Tuesday July 2 in the columns of Figarothe Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire, explains his comments made the day before on France Inter. While he differentiates La France Insoumise from the extreme right, he maintains that voting for the party would be contrary to his values.
Bruno Le Maire changes his tone – slightly. One day after having provoked the anger of the head of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, on France Inter, the Minister of Economy and Finance has reversed his decision not to call for a vote in the second round of the legislative elections, neither for the National Rally, nor for an NFP candidate from La France Insoumise. “No. I don’t put an equal sign between the RN and LFI, which have different histories. No votes for the RN”he clarified in an interview with Figaro published Tuesday July 2.
The refusal of a “circumstantial majority”
The minister, however, maintained the same course as in recent weeks: “(…) I refuse to vote for LFI whose openly communitarian and insidiously anti-Semitic project is contrary to our nation”he continued, adding that “don’t fight the RN” with those “values”. Statements that differ from the line defended by Emmanuel Macron, who in a meeting with his government on Monday July 1, called for a united front against the RN, recalling that he had been re-elected in 2022 thanks to the barrier of the left against the extreme right.
As for a possible alliance with certain political forces to build a new majority, Bruno Le Maire, who advocates the “political overtaking”further clarified to the Figaro : “I will not participate in any “majority of circumstance” which would combine irreconcilable positions and values to the detriment of our coherence. This is not in our collective interest.”.
Macronie divided
And “you RN, you LFI”also defended by a part of the Macronist executives, including the minister Aurore Bergé. Some, recalls BFMTV, like the president of the National Assembly, Yaël-Braun Pivet, or the head of the MoDem, François Bayrou, assume to make “case by case”distinguishing the Insoumis whom they classify in the “republicans”other figures of the movement more divisive in their eyes. The former Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul-Malak, and the former Minister of Transport, Clément Beaune, insisted on the need to beat the RN above all, without making a link with LFI. Divisions that fragment the presidential camp and could tip the outcome of the legislative election, Sunday July 7.
