In an interview with “Figaro”, the MEP pledged to “give everything” during an election which “affects a lot of the future of our political family, but also of democratic life in France”.
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The outgoing European deputy François-Xavier Bellamy will be the head of the list of the Les Républicains party in the European elections in June, announced the boss of LR, Eric Ciotti, Monday January 15 on TF1. “He is a remarkable European elected official who has given influence to our group and to France” in the European Parliament, he said, referring to a “man of convictions, values, work and experience”.
In an interview posted online on the website of FigaroFrançois-Xavier Bellamy reacted by expressing his “acknowledgement” to the boss of LR. He committed to “to give everything” during a vote which “has a lot to do with the future of our political family, but also with democratic life in France”. “For all right-wing voters, this is the time to come together to affirm their convictions”he added, refusing that political life be “scaled down” to a choice between Emmanuel Macron and the National Rally.
Aged 38, François-Xavier Bellamy will have to find a space between Macronism and the far right, which is calling on voters “desperate” of LR to join its ranks. The head of the LR list promises to campaign in particular on immigration, where “the essential remains to be done to guarantee the protection of the borders”as well as on the “reconstruction of economic sovereignty”. In 2019, he had already taken the head of the LR list, obtaining only 8.5% of the votes. The right fears that a new debacle during the European elections on June 9 will definitively take away LR.