The legislative candidate suspended by the National Rally in Morbihan defended himself from any anti-Semitism on Thursday June 20, after the revelation of one of his tweets from October 22, 2018, in which he wrote that “the gas has[vait] brought justice to the victims of the Shoah”. According to Joseph Martin, this message was a reaction to the death of far-right figure Robert Faurisson, which occurred the day before, St. Gaspard’s Day. Just before the now contested tweet, he had also published a first message with a pun on gas: “When the Gaspard, you must not stay.” “My tweet was to defend the Jews against all the ideas that this man had vomited”, he assures today. Follow our live stream.
Eric Ciotti wants his candidates to be labeled “union of the right”. The president of the Republicans, allied with the National Rally for the legislative elections, deplored the classification of his candidates by the Ministry of the Interior as members of the“union of the extreme right”. “We are the union of the right and nothing else”he defended, asking Gérald Darmanin “an immediate rectification of this classification”.
The left is demanding “an effort of economic patriotism” from billionaires. “You can raise your hands, billionaires, and I will apologize to you for the effort that I ask of you in solidarity and economic patriotism”, launched the leader of the outgoing socialist deputies, Boris Vallaud, for the New Popular Front. He was speaking during a hearing of representatives of the main parties in the legislative race before employers’ organizations. Also present were Edouard Philippe for Horizons, Jordan Bardella and Eric Ciotti for the National Rally and its partners, Bruno Le Maire for Ensemble pour la République, and Bruno Retailleau for Les Républicains.
Gabriel Attal presents his program. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal gave a press conference on Thursday in Paris. “Today, the choice is very clear, there are only three blocs. (…) It is from June 30 that everything is at stake, (…) from the first round that the Prime Minister (…) chooses oneself”, he declared in particular. He also ordered political leaders to “put dykes” faced with the rise of anti-Semitism and “refuse to [le] trivialize”targeting Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France insoumise.
Alert on the legislative delay of texts on the climate. In its annual report published Thursday, the High Council for the Climate (HCC) warns of the legislative delay taken for several texts structuring the fight against global warming in France, suspended from the majority and the government which will emerge from the legislative elections. The HCC requests in particular to “quickly finalize and adopt” the third National Plan for adaptation to climate change, the national low carbon strategy or the multi-year energy program. It is “urgent in order to give each actor the visibility necessary to act consistently over time”urged its president, Corinne Le Quéré.