“They promise us, extreme right as well as extreme left, in their programs, a tax bombardment at all levels”, estimated Gabriel Attal, Tuesday June 18 on franceinfo. During this interview, he also mocked the positions of the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella: “We see that there is less and less program and more and more conditions. It’s starting to look like a refusal of obstacles.” Jordan Bardella asks the French to give “absolute majority” to his party at the end of the early legislative elections. Follow our live stream.
The left united during a first meeting. Olivier Faure, Clémentine Autain, Marine Tondelier, François Ruffin… Thirteen days before the first round, several tenors of the New Popular Front called for “unity” from the left, from Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) Monday evening. “We have not won yet, but we have won against the slope of the worst [et] of resignation”launched François Ruffin in front of several hundred supporters. “Let us vow together to never let go”added the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure.
Jordan Bardella details his program. The president of the national gathering, Jordan Bardella, detailed his program in an interview with Parisianpromising in particular the repeal of the pension reform “from autumn”, or even the reduction in VAT on energy and fuel from this summer in the event of victory. But for that he will need “an absolute majority” in the Assembly, he admitted.
Open investigation targeting Eric Ciotti. The Nice prosecutor’s office confirmed that it had opened a preliminary investigation at the end of May for “embezzlement of public funds” following a report targeting several people, including the president of the Republicans, Eric Ciotti, who denounced “obvious political manipulation”.