08:37
Senator Temal supports Lamia el Aaraje
It is “the left that (he) likes”. The PS senator from Val d’Oise Rachid Temal reiterates his support for the outgoing deputy of the 15th district of Paris Lamia El Aaraje, who maintains – again this morning – her candidacy against the Insoumise Danielle Simonnet, invested by Nupes.
08:37
“No compromise possible” with LFI, insists Bruno Le Maire
To make a drama out of a relative majority, isn’t that a bit excessive? “I am not over-dramatizing, replies the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire on LCI. I see no room for compromise with rebellious France today. These are two visions of the country that are radically opposed. (…) The project of rebellious France is for the French to work less. (…) They want to give the arm of honor to our European partners. They want to raise taxes, we want to lower them. There is no possible compromise. »
08:30
Bardella tackles Mélenchon’s economic program
The Smic at 1500 euros, proposal of the Nupes, “it is the companies that will have to pay it” and they cannot all do it, pleads Jordan Bardella on Europe 1. “We do with the economic means at our disposal, retirement at 60 is for people who started working between the ages of 17 and 20”. And to add: “When you talk about Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s program to a business leader, he falls from his chair”.
08:30
Confident Bardella
“We are going to come to power”, assures Jordan Bardella on Europe 1. “I am aware that there are French people who may still be afraid of us” but the “substantive” work of the RN deputies pays and “a parliamentary group in the Assembly would help us” to ensure that “no Frenchman is afraid to vote for us anymore”. What about the Republican roadblock? “The dam is leaking, the beavers are heavy,” he says strangely.
08:26
Mélenchon “crutch” of Macron according to Bardella
The speeches follow each other on the antennas, but are not alike. “We can see that Jean-Luc Mélenchon cannot be Prime Minister when he is Emmanuel Macron’s crutch”, cowardly on Europe 1 Jordan Bardella, acting president of the RN. And to recall that “all the left-wing parties have called for a vote for Emmanuel Macron” in the presidential election, an argument hammered home by the entire RN since the presidential interval.
08:25
“We are the big winners of these legislative elections”, considers Bardella
Another radio, another party: Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally and MEP, returns to Europe 1 on the 208 constituencies which carry the RN in the second round, against 120 in 2017. “We are the big winners of these legislative elections”, estimates he. “There are 18 departments where we make the grand slam, that is to say that RN candidates are qualified in all the constituencies, with prospects of victory”, he rejoices.
08:22
Who to lead the Insoumis? “We are going to debate”, says Corbière
Asked about the post-Mélenchon period, Alexis Corbière nuance: “I will miss (Jean-Luc Mélenchon), but he is not going away”. Will he take the place of the rebellious leader? “I want to play an important role”, he says, but “Adrien (Quatennens) has a lot of talent, (…) other female figures have an important role”, he says, implying that nothing is played. “We are not immediately overwhelmed by an electoral deadline and therefore we will debate. »
08:13
Corbière sees himself “in a positive majority”
Will he be an actor in a constructive opposition to the Assembly? No question of thinking about it like this for the time being. “I will be in a positive majority”, prefers to answer Alexis Corbière.
08:09
The galvanized rebels
Their opponents in the majority “did not foresee – neither did we – that the day after the presidential election we would manage to form this new environmental and social coalition”, analyzes Alexis Corbière on Public Senate. From now on, the last 72 hours of the campaign will be dedicated to mobilizing. “We have to, it’s going to be played out like that,” said the deputy, who will multiply “door to door, collage of posters, leaflets, broadcasts”.
08:04
Alexis Corbière tackles “the imitation of Donald Trump” by Emmanuel Macron
Re-elected in the first round in the 7th constituency of Seine-Saint-Denis, MP Alexis Corbière, spokesman for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, comments on Public Senate on the speech given Tuesday by Emmanuel Macron from Orly airport, seeing at the president “an imitation of Donald Trump in front of a plane on the tarmac”. “I hope that there will be a majority that emerges. Afterwards it is up to the French to decide if it is on Emmanuel Macron’s program or on our program, ”he said.
08:00
Lamia El Aaraje does not imagine “no Nupes group” in the Assembly
“I am a socialist, I am convinced that in politics loyalty is important: if I am elected I will sit with the socialist group”, assures Radio J. Lamia El Aaraje, socialist candidate in the 15th district of Paris. And to warn: “there will be no Nupes group”. The intergroup announced by the left-wing coalition “is not defined in the regulations of the National Assembly”.
07:56
Voters in search of radicalism?
“There are three emergencies today, the social, climatic, and democratic emergency”, estimates Lamia el Aaraje on Radio J. “Citizens can no longer find in the political offer an incarnation of these emergencies, c This is why they turn to the extremes”, analyzes the candidate.
07:54
Lamia El Aaraje does not withdraw his candidacy
“I don’t have to obey anyone,” said this morning on Radio J Lamia El Aaraje, socialist candidate in the 15th district of Paris, who came second far behind the Insoumise Danielle Simonnet, officially invested by Nupes. “Obviously I am a candidate until the end, I owe it to the voters who trusted me”, even if, she recognizes, the difference in votes in the first round “is substantial”.
07:46
The main meetings of this morning
TV, radio… The qualified candidates for the second round occupy the media space two days before the end of the campaign. Here are their main interventions this Wednesday:
- 7:40 a.m. – Louis Aliot, vice-president of the RN and mayor of Perpignan, on RMC
- 07:45 – Lamia El Aaraje, candidate in Paris, on Radio J
- 8 a.m. – Alexis Corbière, LFI deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis on Public Senate
- 8:13 a.m. – Jordan Bardella, MEP and member of the RN on Europe 1
- 8:20 a.m. – Olivier Faure, First Secretary of the PS, NUPES candidate for re-election in Seine-et-Marne on France Inter
- 8:30 a.m. – Rachida Dati, LR mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris, on France Info
- 8:30 a.m. – Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty on LCI
07:46
D-4, the showdown intensifies
They play big, and they understand it. The Alliance Together! for the presidential majority (25.75% in the first round) and the new union of the left Nupes (25.66%) are stepping up their speeches, determined to win as many seats as possible on Sunday. On Tuesday, Emmanuel Macron invited “common sense and a republican leap”. A few hours later, during a Nupes meeting in Toulouse, Jean-Luc Mélenchon called for a “referendum” against “neoliberal macronists”.
07:45
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