former minister Jean-Yves Le Drian will head a committee supporting the Macronist list

The former Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs will try to bring together personalities from various backgrounds in order to help the European list led by Valérie Hayer.

A former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Emmanuel Macron as reinforcement. Jean-Yves Le Drian will head the support committee for the list of the presidential majority in the European elections, led by Valérie Hayer. “The goal is simple: to mobilize, explain and convincehe declared to the daily West Francein an interview published Sunday April 21.

This support committee will meet for the first time “in a fortnight” and he “aims to bring together very diverse political, academic and associative personalities”. This structure will then give “birth of fourteen regional committees”, he further specifies.

Less than 50 days before the election, Valérie Hayer’s list is stagnating between 16 and 19% according to the polls, very far from that of Jordan Bardella’s RN (around 30%). She also faces competition from Raphaël Glucksmann (PS-Place publique), located between 11 and 13%. For Jean-Yves Le Drian, former Minister of Defense under François Hollande (2012-2017), “the Glucksmann list is still a prisoner of Nupes”that is to say the left alliance with the rebels, the PCF and EELV. “And this left leads to an impasse”adds this figure which is defined as a “social democrat of action”.

“Know if Europe will leave history or not”

The stakes of the June 9 vote “is to know whether Europe will leave history or not”judges the former president of the Brittany Region. “If the Europe of the 21st century does not assert itself, it will fall apart”, he believes. He thus warns against “A national gathering which, for its part, proposes a Europe à la carte, with the sole program of unraveling the European Union and, in reality, a dismantling of the treaties. The result would be a Europe without collective force, nor sovereignty, with States delivered to the play of hostile powers”.

In this same interview, Jean-Yves Le Drian confirms having been approached by Emmanuel Macron, of whom he is the special envoy for the Lebanese crisis, to take the head of the European list, which he declined. At 76 years old, “There is an age for everything”he argues.