2023-08-25 11:30:12
After the senatorial elections of September 24, the next democratic meeting will not take place until June 9, 2024. Citizens will be invited to elect the 79 French MEPs who will sit in the European Parliament for five years. First deadline for direct suffrage since the legislative elections of 2022, this ballot will also allow political parties to assess their electoral potential. “We are on strictly national and partisan divides. The real election that constitutes the background of these European elections is the presidential one.confirms Brice Teinturier, Deputy CEO of Ipsos.
Theorized by the Head of State in 2017, the European divide fundamentally divides the electorate of Emmanuel Macron, a convinced Europhile, from that of Marine Le Pen, a resolute Eurosceptic. A niche, however, less buoyant in 2023. “We are not in an anti-European dynamicbelieves Brice Teinturier. Moreover, we are less so than five years ago. The image of the European Union has improved. The French have understood that Brexit does not benefit the English. They also experienced the Covid and understood that with a little coordination, it was quite useful. Today, they fear a war at the gates of Europe. It’s more reassuring than being in a totally isolated space. » Especially since the National Rally (RN) is facing a new competitor on the national scene: at Reconquête!, the candidacies of Eric Zemmour and Marion Maréchal for the head of the list will be decided in the fall.
“Continue this momentum”
On the side of Renew Europe (Renaissance), currently chaired by Stéphane Séjourné, we are trying to avoid a substantial breakthrough by the far right by recalling their abstention on a crucial text: “RN MEPs did not vote for the recovery plan [adopté en juillet 2020] of 750 billion euros which has saved millions of jobs in Europe and in France”, accuses Pascal Canfin, chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In an attempt to recover the ecologist electorate, the former EELV MEP capitalizes on a series of symbolic victories: “A historic recovery plan, a management of the Covid crisis which has shown all the European added value on vaccines, the Green Pact which allows us to act for the climate on the right scale… And we will propose to the French people to continue this dynamic to build a powerful Europe”abounds the chosen one.
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