AFP
Legislative elections: 4 days before, Attal continues his long-distance race
On D-4 of the first round of the legislative elections, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal continues his long-distance race to try to reduce the gap with the left and the far right, still favorite in the polls for these elections which promise to be historic. The day after the first major televised clash of the campaign with Jordan Bardella for the National Rally and Manuel Bompard for La France insoumise, the leader of the outgoing majority is expected in Azay-le-Rideau and Parçay-Meslay in Indre-et Loire.Jordan Bardella, for his part, will continue his media marathon with a double intervention with host Cyril Hanouna on Europe 1, and in the evening on CNEWS. For more than an hour and a half on Tuesday evening, the representatives of the three competing blocs scuffled over power purchasing power, rising taxes, pensions, immigration or the defense of nuclear power.”We can act for purchasing power”, assured the president of the RN, who promises an immediate reduction in VAT to 5 .5% on fuel, electricity and gas if he becomes Prime Minister. “How much does it cost and how do you finance it?” replied Gabriel Attal, posing as a defender of budgetary seriousness and accusing him of wanting “make believe in the moon”.Manuel Bompard ironically accused Jordan Bardella, “the future Prime Minister of purchasing power”, of having “little by little abandoned all the measures to respond to it”, and Gabriel Attal of having “swallowed the richest in this country”. – “Obstacle” – The day after the proposal by the leader of the far right to prevent dual nationals from occupying certain positions considered strategic, Gabriel Attal estimated that ” 3.5 million French dual nationals felt insulted and humiliated.” He also accused Jordan Bardella of hypocrisy by having a Franco-Russian representative, Tamara Volokhova, in a sensitive position in the European Parliament. After his success in the European elections, the RN dominates the first round polls, with 36% of voting intentions according to an Ifop-Fiducial poll for LCI, Le Figaro and Sud Radio, and can cherish the ambition of accession to historic power. He is ahead of the left-wing coalition New Popular Front (28.5%) and the presidential camp (21%). Nothing, so far, has seemed to break the dynamic of the RN candidate for the post of Prime Minister: nor the vagueness of his camp around retirements, nor his stated refusal to be appointed to Matignon if he does not obtain an absolute majority at the end of the second round on July 7 – a “refusal of obstacle”, had tackled Gabriel Attal. Conversely, the Jean-Luc Mélenchon case continues to make waves within the Popular Front, including in his own party. The outgoing deputy François Ruffin, one of the candidates for the post of Prime Minister in the event of a victory for the left in the legislative elections, considered that the leader of La France insoumise was an “obstacle to the victory of the Popular Front”. – “Neither, nor ” -Jean-Luc Mélenchon “goes on TV every two days to say that he is withdrawing, it’s not so much a withdrawal”, he quipped. The break between the two men – François Ruffin having long been seen as a potential successor to Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the incarnation of the radical left – has been consummated since the “purge” of the “frondeurs” from La France insoumise. The Insoumis are also stuck in quarrels with their former executives – Alexis Corbière, Raquel Garrido, Danielle Simonnet – accused of improperly using the party logo during the campaign. On Tuesday, the courts of Paris and Bobigny declared themselves incompetent to determine whether the dissident candidates were within their rights. Facing the RN, some 200 socialist, environmentalist and macronist personalities called in Le Monde for the right, the center and the left to “clearly display from now on” an agreement to withdraw with a view to the second round. “We will see on a case-by-case basis”, replied Manon Aubry (LFI), questioned on Sud Radio on the withdrawals of LFI candidates coming in third position. The Macronists , they are also procrastinating: the tenors of the presidential camp discussed Tuesday the “campaign strategy” and seemed to be moving towards a slogan “neither RN, nor LFI” in the second round of the legislative elections, even if Emmanuel Macron has not yet decided.bur-vl/jmt/dch/juf
