Jordan Bardella’s party has unveiled its official campaign poster for the European elections. She really has something to surprise.
“On June 9, with Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen, France returns! Discover our official poster for the European election,” rejoiced the National Rally on its X account. It is with pride that the party, given favorite for the ballot, unveiled its visual on Tuesday: a smiling Jordan Bardella in the foreground, and a Marine Le Pen barely behind him to his right, all on a blue background. A slogan, the name of the head of the list, the name of the party… but not a single mention made to Europe.
A “referendum” for or against Macron
You have to squint to read, at the bottom right, the words “European elections 2024”. Apart from this small line in lower case, as if it were a point of detail in the history of this election, the visual chosen by the National Rally has chosen not to direct its campaign in any way on the European issues. Nothing surprising, since Jordan Bardella’s strategy, until now, has consisted of presenting the June 9 vote as a “referendum” for or against Emmanuel Macron. The poster unveiled by the party on Tuesday confirms its intentions to nationalize the elections.
“A Frexit in pieces”?
“France is coming back!” This is the name that was given to the list of the National Rally for these Europeans. Already, the tone was set. Jordan Bardella does not hide it: in this election, he defends the sovereignty of France within the European Union, going so far as to demand in his program the primacy of national laws over community standards. Which also makes him the privileged target of attacks from many of his adversaries, led by Valérie Hayer: again on Tuesday morning, the Macronist accused him on RMC of proposing “a Frexit in pieces”.
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09:58 – The Attal-Bardella debate is “a denial of democracy”, denounces Glucksmann
“I find that this debate is a democratic scandal,” declared the head of the socialist list on France 2, two days before the Attal-Bardella duel organized on this channel. “I find that Mr. Attal is not a candidate for the European elections and that organizing this debate, at 8:15 p.m. on your channel, so close to the election, is a denial of democracy,” adds Raphaël Glucksmann. The PS contacted Arcom this weekend on this subject. In Italy, the audiovisual regulator canceled a similar debate.
09:47 – Marine Le Pen wants to inflict “the worst possible defeat” on the Macron camp
Emmanuel Macron’s great rival wishes him “the worst possible defeat” in the European elections “to bring him back to earth”, as she declared this morning on Europe 1.
Marine Le Pen also recalls her conditions for a debate with the Head of State: “Either we debate in September what he is going to do over the next three years, or we debate now, but, in this case, he poses his resignation or dissolution of the Assembly on the table.”
