The National Rally is preparing the “home stretch” before the European elections. The leader of the RN in the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen, “will enter the campaign in the coming days alongside me”, announced Sunday April 28, Jordan Bardella, head of the party list for the June 9 election. The team must present its entire list on Wednesday in Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales), and “Marine Le Pen will close this list in penultimate position”on a symbolic basis, said Jordan Bardella, on France 3.
The RN hopes to attract the LR and Reconquest electorate. Jordan Bardella reiterated his “desire to bring together the sincere patriots of LR”, “Eric Zemmour’s voters who are lovers of France and also patriots on the left who consider that we also carry a certain number of republican values”. “Voting for lists which will make 5 or 6% is to weaken the weight of the sanction which could be inflicted on Emmanuel Macron”he argued, while LR and Reconquest are credited with less than 7% of voting intentions.
Bayrou accuses Glucksmann of “desertion” on immigration. On LCI, the president of MoDem, François Bayrou, criticized a “desertion” to Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the socialist list in the European elections, for not having voted on April 10 in favor of the Asylum and Immigration Pact. To justify his position, Raphaël Glucksmann, who is hot on the heels of majority candidate Valérie Hayer in the polls, estimated that this reform did not create “European harmonization” essential.
Panot denounces an “attempt at censorship” in Gaza. The leader of LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, called for a rally for freedom of expression on Tuesday in Paris, when she and European candidate Rima Hassan will be questioned by the police for “apology of terrorism” . “This summons follows an attempt at censorship on the part of this power since there was the cancellation of conferences six times for Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Rima Hassan in the middle of the electoral campaign”she declared on RTL.
Bellamy wants to “stop public funding” at Sciences Po. Sciences Po Paris has “resigned” by reaching an agreement with the pro-Palestinian students who blocked the establishment on Friday, said François-Xavier Bellamy, head of the LR list in the European elections, on CNews. In response, “the government should stop public funding” at school, he defends. An idea that is not unanimous among Republicans. “I do not want to eliminate public aid to Sciences Po because I want us to continue teaching in this country”declared LR deputy Aurélien Pradié on franceinfo and France Inter.