Four days before the first round of the legislative elections, the leader of the New Popular, Ecologist and Social Union (Nupes) Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne are fighting a remote duel for Calvados on Wednesday. The leader of La France insoumise, who called on the French to have him appointed head of government by giving a majority to Nupes, is visiting Caen this Wednesday to hold his last big meeting there before the first round, where he will support the young LFI candidate Noé Gauchard, 22, who is running in the 6th district of Calvados against Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon will also be accompanied by the First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, whose party presents in the constituency of Caen-Est Arthur Delaporte, invested by the Nupes (LFI, EELV, PS, PCF and Generations). For her part, Elisabeth Borne travels to Vire at the end of the afternoon as part of a public meeting. These two trips come the day after the reaction of the head of government to the remarks of the leader of the Insoumis who had estimated that “the police kill”, in reference to the death of the passenger of a car victim of police fire during a control on Saturday in Paris.
The presidential majority accelerates its campaign
Elisabeth Borne had thus reacted by making strong remarks with regard to Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “I find it very shocking the way that (he) has to systematically attack the police with totally outrageous remarks. “After the first results of the constituencies of French people living abroad, whose results of the first round have already come in, the majority have chosen to speed up the campaign in the home stretch before the first round, President Emmanuel Macron having elsewhere, a trip to the department of Seine-St-Denis, in particular to Clichy-sous-Bois, is planned.
For her part, Marine Le Pen is expected in the south, on lands that were favorable to her during the presidential election. She will go in particular to Agde, in the department of Hérault, in a constituency where she had reached 60.14%. In the Pyrénées-Orientales, the RN candidate was ahead of Emmanuel Macron by nearly 13 points in the second round of the presidential election, with 56.33% of the vote.