Her voice broken with emotion, the elected environmentalist representative of Hénin-Beaumont, Marine Le Pen’s stronghold, took over from the Minister of the Economy at the microphone of France Inter, on the verge of tears.
“I have lived in a city run by the National Rally (RN) for ten years, this is the behavior of a coward and a privileged person, it is out of touch, it is lunar, it does not live up to history,” she said, while Mr. Le Maire had just called for his camp to withdraw in favor of the socialists, environmentalists and communists. “Does the RN have the possibility of having an absolute majority in the National Assembly? The answer is yes. Does LFI have the capacity to have an absolute majority in the National Assembly? The answer is no,” she recalled.
“The dishonor.” “Fortunately, left-wing, green voters are less sectarian and less cowardly than that,” insisted Marine Tondelier. “You think that the 9 million poor people in this country, that the people who have lived and taken the full brunt of their policies, it didn’t take courage from them [d’]go vote again for [Emmanuel Macron] in 2022? “, she questioned.
“They will be dishonor and defeat because Macronism is over, yesterday’s results showed it very clearly, very very clearly,” added the environmentalist leader. On the other hand, she “thanked Gabriel Attal, who was clearer than the average in his camp and I think that is a form of courage, whatever I think of his policy”.
The Macronist camp is divided on the course of action to be taken for the second round of the legislative elections, with some of its representatives clearly refusing any withdrawal against the RN in favor of La France insoumise.
© Agence France-Presse
