Bruno Le Maire calls for “voting for a candidate from the social-democratic camp” from which he excludes LFI
“It’s a defeat for our majority”recognized Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy and Finance, Monday, at the microphone of France Inter. “The National Rally does not provide any of the necessary answers to the questions of our compatriots”assuring that he will have to fight a double battle between now and July 7: “fights for our deputies, for those who are in the running for the second round” and that “so that the National Rally does not have an absolute majority”.
On the diversity of voting instructions for the second round within the presidential camp, Bruno Le Maire assured that it was a question of “votes of conscience “He called on voters in constituencies where there is no Renaissance candidate in the second round to “vote for a candidate from the social democratic camp”. “That is to say representative of the Socialist Party, the Communist Party or the Greens”he said, adding : “I do not vote for La France insoumise”.
While saying that he does not “never puts an equal sign between La France insoumise and the National Rally”, Bruno Le Maire assured that, for him, “France Insoumise is a danger for the nation, just as the National Rally is a danger for the Republic.” « We do not choose one danger for the benefit of another”he repeated, denouncing the “positions of circumstance”.
“We saw the way in which [LFI] attacked the police, the security agents, the way it spread the violence of hatred. We saw the way in which La France Insoumise played with anti-Semitism,” he added again.
Bruno Le Maire did not indicate whether he would remain at the Ministry of Economy and Finance on July 7, while assuring that he was “fairly likely” that he should leave the ministry.
While Gabriel Attal announced on Sunday evening the suspension of the controversial unemployment insurance reform, which was to be the subject of a decree to be published on 1is July, Bruno Le Maire said to himself “very circumspect about circumstantial positions, accommodations, calculations” policies, considering that ” we must move towards full employment and therefore we must continue the reform of unemployment insurance.”
“Let’s try to work together,” he said to Marine Tondelier before her arrival at the microphone of France Inter. And to add : “Let’s look at what can be done with the Greens, with the communists, with the socialists, with the Republicans who have not crossed the wall of shame and who have remained in the Republican camp.”
