La République en Marche will not give national instructions but “on a case-by-case basis” in the constituencies where candidates from the National Rally and the Melenchonist Nupes coalition will oppose each other in the second round of the legislative elections, the presidential party told AFP. AFP on Sunday. “It’s the Republican Front, against the extremes”, explained the presidential party, arguing that “some Nupes candidates are extreme: it will be according to the personality of the Nupes who is qualified, in particular if it is someone who has the values of the Republic”. “But we will not support any RN candidate,” added LREM.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne did not give instructions in her speech on Sunday evening, denouncing an “unprecedented confusion between the extremes” and seeming to refer back to back extreme left and extreme right. Asked on France 2 at the start of the evening about the attitude of the majority in the event of an RN-Nupes duel, government spokeswoman Olivia Grégoire kicked into touch. “I believe these are local debates. It is not a national issue tonight, ”she replied.
“Rupture of republican and democratic values”
“We have to wait to see the scenarios that will arise or not (…) We have always been very clear about our opposition to the extremes and in particular to the National Rally. We will see the local situations that arise, which candidates are in place and there will be positions that will be taken, ”said Budget Minister Gabriel Attal on TF1. These positions have aroused anger and misunderstanding on the left, while the majority has been able to castigate in the past the attitude of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the face of LREM-RN duels, judging that he did not decide on clearly enough in favor of the “republican” candidate.
“Environmentalists mobilized massively to beat Le Pen for the presidency. To hear Olivia Grégoire and Gabriel Attal refuse to give a vote indication in the event of a #Nupes #RN duel is absolutely scandalous! “, tweeted the former environmental candidate for the presidential Yannick Jadot. “LREM does not call to beat the far right. This marks a break in the republican and democratic values of our country, ”wrote on the same network the former boss of the Greens and MEP David Cormand.
The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, judged “scandalous” the intervention of Elisabeth Borne, “when she now seeks to explain that there would be two extremes against which it would be necessary to fight (…). Frankly, it smells a lot of panic, ”he said on France 2.