“Violence is never the answer,” writes Prisca Thevenot. The government spokeswoman was attacked Wednesday evening, while she was putting up posters in Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine) with her substitute, Virginie Lanlo, and two activists. She has just reacted on X: “Following the attack I suffered yesterday with Virginie and our campaign team, I would like to thank the police and the firefighters. Thank you also to everyone for your support. Violence is never the answer. I will end my campaign on the ground.”
François Ruffin will not sit with LFI if he is re-elected as a deputy. Invited on RTL, François Ruffin affirms that he “will not participate in a mishmash government”, which would necessarily be “motley and improvised”. “I will stay out of these games.” The outgoing MP, candidate for re-election under the NFP banner, further distances himself from Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “I left LFI, my disagreements with Jean-Luc Mélenchon are known, profound. My place will not be in the LFI group if I am elected.” He would rather “draw links” with all the left-wing parties. MP François Ruffin, campaigning in the Somme, considered that LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon was a “burden” and an “obstacle to the vote.”
Mélenchon on Ruffin: “Such a dangerous election is not the time to settle personal scores.” Jean-Luc Mélenchon reacted to the comments of François Ruffin who called him a “drag” for the left-wing vote. “Such a dangerous election is not the time to settle personal scores […]”For my part, I will not participate in settling scores,” he declared on the TF1 set.
Marine Le Pen defends problematic RN candidates. Asked about RN candidates who have made problematic comments or posts (particularly racism), Marine Le Pen, on BFMTV, replied that the party’s conflicts committee would deal with them. “There are comments that are unacceptable and that will result in sanctions. And there are also blunders,” like the candidate who referred to her “Jewish” and “Muslim” doctors. “These are good people who are running, who are the image of France, not of Sciences Po or ENA,” Marine Le Pen fumed. When Apolline de Malherbe reminded her that Jordan Bardella said yesterday that they had to “fire them,” Marine Le Pen replied, “Okay, but they don’t deserve to be fired.”
“One candidate in three with problematic remarks, that’s not a few black sheep,” Attal judges on the RN. Gabriel Attal spoke about the controversies surrounding the various RN candidates in the legislative elections. ” A candidate [RN] “In three cases with problematic comments, it’s not a few black sheep: it’s the whole flock that’s sick,” he said. “At the end of this election, if the National Rally has an absolute majority, these people will be members of parliament and perhaps in government,” he warned.
Marine Le Pen still believes in an absolute majority for the RN. “There is still the capacity to have an absolute majority,” Marine Le Pen said on BFMTV. “But it is certain that the mass withdrawal operation aims to prevent the RN from having an absolute majority.” For the leader of the RN, a coalition government would be “Emmanuel Macron’s great dream: the single party. In reality, it is the party of those who want to keep their jobs.” She appeals to the abstainers of the first round.
Gérald Darmanin will not participate in a coalition government. On Télématin, Gérald Darmanin states that he does not “want” to participate in a coalition government. “I am a man of the right who has supported the President of the Republic for seven years, I think we need to rebuild. Let’s not start today with results that we don’t have! We need to focus on a single vote, the one for the majority candidates.”
“Macronie has supported the extreme right-wing movement in this country,” Guetté criticizes. “Macronie has accompanied the extreme right-wing movement in this country,” said Clémence Guetté (LFI). The rebellious MP believes that the Macronists have “not set firm limits” citing in particular the asylum and immigration law. “Firm anti-racism, displayed, explained including from a very young age is an effective way to fight against the RN,” she explained.
“There is an urgent need to vote after the catastrophic results” of the first round, says Kylian Mbappé. “There is an urgent need to vote after the catastrophic results” of the first round of the legislative elections, declared the captain of the French football team Kylian Mbappé at a press conference on Thursday. “We cannot leave our country in the hands of these people, it is urgent. We really hope that everyone will mobilize to vote for the right side,” he added.
Olivier Faure: “There is only one ballot, the ballot of hope, the one that allows us to avoid the extreme right.” “I call on all those who did not vote for a left-wing candidate in the first round to do so in the second. I know it is difficult, I did it myself in 2002, in 2017, in 2022. I did it because when the essential is at stake, there is no hesitation, there is only one ballot, the ballot of hope, it is the one that allows us to avoid the extreme right,” said the socialist on the set of France 2.
Campaigning for Olivier Véran, an elected official from Isère attacked. After the assault of a RN candidate on a market in Savoie, an elected official from Isère was in turn hasattacked while he was putting up posters for Olivier Véran’s campaign. Bernard Dupré, deputy mayor of La Tronche in Isère, was punched in the face by a man. LThe individual also tried to steal other posters from the trunk of his car. Bernard Dupré, injured in the arcade filed a complaint.
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