Europe 1 with AFP
12:54 p.m., June 16, 2024
Former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin gave his support to the New Popular Front. He also criticized the decision to dissolve Emmanuel Macron’s Assembly which, according to him, “offers the National Rally the opportunity to seek power”.
Former socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin on Sunday gave his support to the New Popular Front and criticized Emmanuel Macron who, with the dissolution, “offers the National Rally the opportunity to seek power”. “By now calling the legislative elections, the president is offering the National Rally the opportunity to seek power in France. This is not responsible,” said Lionel Jospin in an interview with World.
The former Prime Minister (1997-2002) attacks the “arrogance” and “lightness” of Emmanuel Macron who “drags the French into his haste”. For Lionel Jospin, the RN “is nationalist, xenophobic, and many of its proposals offend our republican principles”.
The union of the left, a “healthy choice despite known differences”
“On the international level, its leaders are ready to make a pact with the one who claims to be our enemy: Vladimir Putin. Not to mention the doubts that we may have about the capacity of the two main leaders of the RN to master economic and social problems of the country,” he adds.
Faced with this, the New Popular Front is “one of the dikes against which the wave can break.” “It is healthy that, despite known differences, France Insoumise, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and the Ecologists have signed the recent agreement. And I am delighted that Raphaël Glucksmann, who has just had a great European campaign, is not didn’t stay away,” he judges.
