“Not a single vote for the far right”: Macron reminds his ministers that he was elected thanks to the left against the RN. Emmanuel Macron told his ministers on Monday that “not a single vote” should “go to the far right” in the second round of the legislative elections, reminding them that the left had mobilized against the RN in 2017 and in 2022, allowing its own accession to the Elysée, according to a participant.
Jordan Bardella publishes a “Letter to the French”. As Emmanuel Macron published a “Letter to the French” last week, Jordan Bardella is releasing his “Letter to the French” this morning. “France is at the time of choices,” writes the RN leader. “Either the far left and the existential threat it constitutes, or the National Union around our values and our identity. I call on you to increase the mobilization.”
Mélenchon announces that he will not debate with Bardella. Jordan Bardella said he was “ready to debate with Jean-Luc Mélenchon.” The leader of the rebels responded to him at the end of the morning. Mr. Bardella is right, there is a need for a debate between the two projects for the French people,” he wrote on X. “The candidate of the New Popular Front for the prime minister’s office has not been designated. He must therefore address the rebels, the leading movement in terms of the number of elected representatives in the first round of the New Popular Front,” declared Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The rebel thus believes that Jordan Bardella must “solicit Manuel Bompard, his coordinator, Mathilde Panot, president of the group or Clémence Guetté, coordinator of the program.”
“We will fight until the last second on Sunday to block the RN,” promises Faure. Questioned upon his arrival at the National Assembly on Monday, PS leader Olivier Faure – elected in the first round on Sunday – called for the National Rally to be defeated on Sunday. “We will fight until the last second on Sunday to block the RN,” he declared. “We are the only ones to send a clear message for this second round against the far right,” he also regretted, directly targeting certain figures in Macron’s party who had not called for blocking the far right in all circumstances.
Already more than 150 withdrawals before the second round to counter the RN. More than 150 left-wing or Macronist candidates qualified for the second round of the legislative elections have already withdrawn on Monday in order to counter the National Rally, according to a provisional count by AFP. The list is expected to evolve until Tuesday 6:00 p.m., the deadline set for qualified candidates to decide whether or not to continue in the second round which will take place on Sunday. The 155 withdrawals recorded are all by candidates engaged in three-way races and who for the most part came in third place in constituencies where the National Rally could be able to win on Sunday.
Éric Ciotti calls on the LR to “gather together”. “We hope to have an absolute majority. There are just under sixty candidates left in the second round,” the president of the Republicans said happily on France 2. On the LR divided after Éric Ciotti’s rally to the National Rally (RN), he called for a “great rally.”
