One week before the deadline, the candidates for the European elections are throwing their last energies into the campaign. The head of the environmentalist list Marie Toussaint called on her supporters, gathered in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), Sunday June 2, to “beat the odds”. Surveys on voting intentions place their list dangerously close to the 5% threshold needed to send MPs to Brussels. “What is at stake is the possibility of Europe tipping towards the worst possible ecological future”, she warned, tackling the program of the National Rally (RN). The MEP also accused the left of “to resume” environmentalist ideas “in a faded version”. Follow our live stream.
Jordan Bardella calls for “i“inflict the heaviest defeat on Emmanuel Macron”. The head of the list RN and Marine Le Pen rallied their support at a meeting in Paris on Sunday afternoon. “We are at the dawn of a decisive vote for the future of France and Europe.”assured Jordan Bardella, whose list is well ahead in voting intentions in the polls. “We must inflict the heaviest defeat on Emmanuel Macron on Sunday. Tomorrow, the National Rally will be the party of change”he launched, after an introductory speech by the president of the RN group to the Assembly.
Raphaël Glucksmann “total break” with LFI. “I have set a clear course. This course is a visceral attachment to democracy and a peaceful public debate,” declared Sunday Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the PS-Place Publique list. On BFMTV, the socialist MEP also said “in total break with what La France insoumise is doing today”. He also criticized the presidential majority, ensuring that there is “millions of French people who want another way”.
Gabriel Attal in support of Valérie Hayer. “What is at stake on June 9 is the future of France in Europe”, declared the Prime Minister, guest of “Dimanche en politique”, on France 3. The head of government showed his support for Valérie Hayer, head of the presidential majority list. He also warned against the hypothesis of a massive vote for the National Rally: “PFor the first time in this election, there is the risk that Europe will be blocked because the far right would have a blocking minority.”
Léon Deffontaines in Marseille. There head of the Communist Party list, has a meeting with his voters in Marseille, in the company of Fabien Roussel.