Barbara Pompili “confident” in obtaining a majority by LREM in the National Assembly

“I’m confident overall, because I think the French are consistent” and that they will give a majority to the President of the Republic in the National Assembly after the legislative elections, estimated Friday May 27 on franceinfo Barbara Pompili, ex-Minister of Ecological Transition, legislative candidate in the Somme.

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“I am rather optimistic”she said, even though “in an election, nothing is ever decided”. The ex-minister also said that the President of the Republic does not need to campaign in person for his party: “we are on 577 small elections and 577 very different territories”.

Former secretary of state of the socialist François Hollande, Barbara Pompili felt that a space for the left must be “reinvested” after the creation of the Nupes for the legislative elections. “The program of insubordinate France is certainly not the program of the moderate left, the socialists or the Greens that I have known”, she said. The ex-minister continued by attacking Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of La France insoumise and his “strategy to question the legitimacy of the presidential election”.

According to her, the left “needs to rebuild”or at any rate “those who feel left politically reconstruct a space that today no longer exists”. Barbara Pompili said she’s not the only one who feels “very orphan[e] of a genuine left space”.

Legislative ➡️ “The French are consistent. When you elect a President, you have to give him the means to implement his policy”, says Barbara Pompili. “Jean-Luc Mélenchon questions the legitimacy of the election” by Emmanuel Macron, she said. pic.twitter.com/pfVUps3FLR

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