No instructions but a risk. Gabriel Attal stated on Wednesday that he did not intend to give “voting instructions” for the second round of the legislative elections but to “warn” about the “risk” of an absolute majority for the National Rally. “I do not (want) to give voting instructions” but “warn by saying that there is a risk of an absolute majority for the National Rally, of the extreme right”, declared on BFMTV the Prime Minister and head of the campaign of the outgoing majority.
The presidential camp is divided on the course of action to take in the second round, between the supporters of “neither RN nor LFI” and those who advocate unconditional withdrawal in favor of the left, when the maintenance of candidates who came in third place risks making the RN win.
“I warned before the first round of this election about two major risks: an absolute majority led by LFI. This risk at the end of the first round has been ruled out. (…) And then there is a second risk: it is an absolute majority led by the extreme right (…) and it is this risk that we must combat today,” Gabriel Attal repeated.
“A Frenchman, a citizen, will vote according to his soul and conscience”
“Everyone is free (…) to make political comments, political statements. Moreover, those who are the freest are the French people who decide how they will vote,” he added. “We do not respond to instructions (to vote). A French person, a citizen, will vote according to his soul and conscience.”
On France Inter on Wednesday morning, Gabriel Attal acknowledged that “it obviously doesn’t please many French people to have to block the National Front (now the National Rally, editor’s note) by using another ballot that they wouldn’t have wanted” but “I consider that it is our responsibility today to do so.”
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