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With its resounding score in the legislative elections, the National Rally can move to Matignon in a week. To win an absolute majority, Marine Le Pen and her allies do not fail to attack the New Popular Front, and believe that the game of withdrawals will do nothing.
The National Rally has never been so close to power. Well ahead of these legislative elections with already more than thirty deputies elected in the first round, Marine Le Pen and her allies have struck a major blow and are already preparing to obtain an absolute majority in the National Assembly.
Allied with Eric Ciotti, the party with the flame is already sharpening its arguments: on July 7, “two choices” are offered to the French: “the alliance of the worst and the extreme left in power”, or “the National Union”, Jordan Bardella never ceases to remind us.
After this first round, two choices are available to the French.
Or the alliance of the worst and the extreme left in power.
Or the National Union, the Republic and its values.
I am therefore ready to debate with Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The French want clarity.
— Jordan Bardella (@J_Bardella) https://twitter.com/J_Bardella/status/1807689635289587998?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The RN candidate for Matignon never misses an opportunity to denounce the “compromise” of the left and the environmentalists with the leader of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is a scarecrow for many voters.
Before the second round, “we are going to insist on the fact that all the left-wing parties have allied themselves with LFI and Jean-Luc Melenchon, because they are the ones who are scary”, explains an internal RN source to -. “Our message will be: do you want Bardella or Mélenchon at Matignon?”
Time for withdrawals
As it stands, the projections of the polling institutes anticipate a large relative majority of at least 240 seats for Jordan Bardella’s troops, or even a short absolute majority of up to 295 seats. But these projections were made before withdrawals. And given the large number of three-way races – 306 – the game of voting instructions could slow down the RN’s momentum.
“Even if voters do not follow the instructions of their political leaders mechanically, we will have an effect which will work rather to the disadvantage of the RN”, commented the deputy general director of Ipsos Brice Teinturier on France inter.
But on the National Rally side, it is thought that this strategy of “republican withdrawal” will have “no effect on voters”, the same source told -. Because “these are maneuvers that annoy people”, believe Marine Le Pen’s allies, buoyed by their good score in the European elections: “Public opinion now knows that we can be in the majority”.
