Jordan Bardella went to file, Sunday 1is May, the traditional wreath of flowers at the feet of one of the statues of Joan of Arc, this time in Place Saint-Augustin, in the 8e arrondissement of Paris – a rare occurrence, in the absence of Marine Le Pen, who was content to publish a sunny video where she called on the French to go and vote in the legislative elections and wished them a good Sunday. The ceremony always has something a little outdated: the president of the National Rally (RN), accompanied by Edwige Diaz, the leader of the RN in New Aquitaine, lays the flowers, “to Joan of Arc, liberator of France”and observes twenty seconds of silence, in front of fifteen petrified party cadres, before breaking camp.
“I wanted to pay tribute to the most famous woman in the history of France who knew, in 1429 in front of Paris, to know the defeat, to go back on horseback and then to know the victory and the national epic a few years later. It’s a beautiful symbol.”, said the MEP, before heading to the premises of BFMTV. On the set, the president of the RN returned at length to the party’s strategy for the legislative elections. The movement will present candidates in the 577 constituencies – the final nominations will be approved on Monday by the national investiture commission, in the presence of Marine Le Pen, and made public the following days.
The message is clear : “It is the last deadline, the French must know it, which will make it possible to limit the powers of Emmanuel Macronrepeated Jordan Bardella. If Emmanuel Macron, at the end of these legislative elections, obtains full powers, then he will have his hands free for five years. » He questioned the voting system, which explains that with 11 million votes in the second round of the 2017 presidential election, the RN today only has six deputies.
“We will be present everywhere [aux législatives] because it is a mark of confidence that we owe to French voters”, he said on BFMTV. He distinguished three types of candidates: those of the RN of course, like Marine Le Pen, who will represent himself in his stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont, in Pas-de-Calais – Jordan Bardella, for his part, passes his turn, to run the party. Then come “people who come from outside”, “People who have been to the Republicans, who have had a career on the right” et “People who have been able to get close to Reconquête! and who have moved awaybecause Eric Zemmour’s strategy led “at a political stalemate”.
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