Following the announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly by Emmanuel Macron on Sunday June 9, early legislative elections will be held in France on June 30 and July 7. The National Rally of Jordan Bardella called for a “rally” quite quickly, targeting in particular Reconquête and Les Républicains (LR).
And this Tuesday, the president of the RN declared on RTL that he would support several LR candidates in the next legislative elections. “In the candidates that my political movement will support for these legislative elections, there will not only be people from the National Rally, there will also be people from the Republicans,” announced Jordan Bardella, before adding : “And I really call on the Republicans to stop being Emmanuel Macron’s political crutch”.
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Comments that made Republican candidates react. Xavier Bertrand, LR president of Hauts-de-France, called on Éric Ciotti, president of the Republicans, to clarify the party’s position in relation to the RN. “The DNA of the Republican right is never the extremes, never the National Front, never Marine Le Pen. It has always been my fight and it will remain so,” proclaimed Xavier Bertrand.
A few hours later, the president of the Republicans Eric Ciotti confirmed an agreement with the RN in the 1 p.m. news on TF1. “I believe there is the need to serve the country which is in danger, began Eric Ciotti. There is on one side this unnatural alliance of rebels” who defend “ideas which border on anti-Semitism” and “on the other side, the Marconist bloc which has led the country to where it is today (. ..). And then there is a national bloc. LR today is too weak. (…) We need an alliance while remaining ourselves, (…) an alliance with the National Rally.”
Marine Le Pen praised Eric Ciotti’s “courageous choice” and “sense of responsibility” on Tuesday and said she hoped “that a significant number of LR executives will follow him”, after the head of the right-wing party advocated ” an alliance” with the RN. “Forty years of a pseudo sanitary cordon, which caused many elections to be lost, is in the process of disappearing,” the boss of the National Rally deputies in the National Assembly told AFP.
