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The campaign is accelerating, less than a month before the European elections on June 9. France 2 offered, Thursday May 16 at 8:40 p.m., a program focused on the economic issues of this election. Purchasing power, agriculture, industry… So many themes which were debated by political figures and experts on set. Marine Le Pen’s interview with Caroline Roux, which opened the show, provoked a reaction from the political leaders who debated on set immediately: “Marine Le Pen did ‘Europe bashing’ in all its forms”estimated the Minister of Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu. “Marine Le Pen’s speech was poor on the economy”launched environmentalist senator Yannick Jadot. “You didn’t listen to anything!”replied the RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy.
Marine Le Pen defends her economic vision. “To go into debt is to become poorer”estimated the leader of the RN deputies, for whom France could save money by reducing its contribution to the European Union. “I am against any new European tax, which will not replace French taxes but be combined with them”she answered a viewer’s question about a European ISF.
The RN in the lead in the polls. The National Rally is in a strong position in the polls. His list, led by the president of the party, Jordan Bardella, is well ahead in the various opinion polls, ahead of the presidential camp by around fifteen points. Again on Wednesday, an Ipsos poll credited Jordan Bardella’s list with 31% of voting intentions, and that of Valérie Hayer (Renaissance) with 16%.
Representatives of the main parties. In addition to the interviews with Marine Le Pen and Carlos Tavares, the France 2 set saw significant political figures confront each other. Christophe Béchu, the Minister of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, represented the presidential majority. He crossed swords with Jean-Philippe Tanguy, RN deputy for the Somme and Yannick Jadot, Les Ecologistes-EELV senator from Paris, with whom the tone rose on the issue of pesticides.
A debate on wages and the distribution of wealth. Clémence Guetté, La France insoumise MP for Val-de-Marne; Aurélien Pradié, deputy of Les Républicains du Lot; and Boris Vallaud, president of the socialist group in the National Assembly, discussed a European minimum wage. Faced with Stellantis boss Carlos Tavares, the two left-wing parliamentarians reiterated their wish to limit salary gaps from 1 to 20.
Politicians confronted with experts and journalists. The debates on agriculture, industry and even purchasing power also saw the intervention of the former president of the FNSEA, Christiane Lambert, who today heads a confederation of European agricultural unions, Copa-Cogeca; Karine Jacquemart, general director of the NGO Foodwatch France ; and journalists Dominique Seux, deputy editorial director of Echoes and editorialist at France Inter, and Birgit Holzer, correspondent for the German regional press.
