The Republicans are preparing the between-two rounds of the legislative elections. The party will not give voting instructions on the evening of the first round, June 12, if its candidates are not qualified, in the event of a duel between LREM and Nupes, assured this Tuesday the president of the LR group in the Senate Bruno Retailleau.
“Many of our voters will no doubt vote Macron against Nupes but we will not give voting instructions because voting instructions no longer work, it even annoys people. People are autonomous, ”he said on France 2, questioned to know for whom LR would call to vote in the event of a second round opposing an LREM candidate to a candidate from the left alliance Nupes.
In the event of a second round LREM / RN, “in any case I think that no voting instructions”, he added, calling on right-wing voters to “vote of conviction from the first round”, because “when ( the LR candidates, editor’s note) will be in the second round, they will have a good chance of winning ”.
A call for a “vote of conviction from the first round”
During the presidential campaign, after having declared, before the first round, that she would not give voting instructions, the candidate LR Valérie Pécresse then called on the evening of the first round to block the candidate RN Marine Le Pen, specifying that she herself would vote for Emmanuel Macron.
Friday, the ex-candidate called on the voters of his camp who voted for Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election to “take back their freedom” and to vote in the legislative elections for Les Républicains, the only “credible” opposition in his eyes.
Bruno Retailleau also accused Emmanuel Macron of “anesthetizing the campaign, as he had anesthetized the presidential campaign”, and of “practicing with Mr. Mélenchon the same method that he had practiced at the time of the presidential election” with Marine Le Pen , i.e. “to scare”. “But the election must be stronger than fear,” he urged.