The far-right leader is emerging from her lethargy just hours before the vote to try to undo her historically poor results in the National Assembly
The far-right Marine Le Pen on Friday urged her voters to mobilize on Sunday to defeat the president, Emmanuel Macron, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the trade union of left-wing parties (Nupes), in the parliamentary elections. “We have the historic opportunity to prevent Macron from gaining an absolute majority in the National Assembly. Your vote will be decisive for the next five years,” he wrote on his Twitter account, coinciding with the official closing of the campaign’s first round.
Le Pen, 53, has been in the election race for ten months. His face well reflects the fatigue created by the long hours of interviews, rallies, meeting with voters and traveling around the country. After a strange campaign for the presidential election in April, marked by the war in Ukraine, the far right is now struggling to get a good result in the parliamentary elections.
The first round this Sunday and the second in eight days call on the French to the polls to renew the 577 seats in the House of Representatives. Le Pen, a candidate for re-election as deputy for the Pas de Calais department since 2017, began her walk to the meeting room on May 8, although she was little involved. In fact, he took for granted from the start that Macron’s party and its allies will win the election.
The leader of the French far right knows that in the parliamentary elections, her formation has a tendency to leak as the rest of the parties unite in a cordon sanitaire against her in the second round. In this way they prevent the National Regrouping, the former National Front, from reaching a large number of deputies.
In recent days, however, Le Pen has awakened from her lethargy, so that her supporters are going to vote. “There is a paradox: those who suffer the most from Emmanuel Macron’s policies – the working classes and the middle class – are those who vote the least,” he stressed. “They still have time to convince their families, their friends, their colleagues and their loved ones to go to the polls. When the people vote, the people win,” he encouraged.
He recalled in an interview on the BFMTV television network that the National Assembly will be the place to vote on measures that will affect citizens, such as, for example, “purchasing power, the price of energy, retirement at age 65, the Immigration control and imposing harsher penalties. Le Pen accused Mélenchon of lying to the French, leading them to believe that if the left-wing party union (Nupes) gains an absolute majority in the Chamber – at least 289 seats out of 577 – Macron will be forced to “He has less chance of becoming prime minister than I am of winning the lottery without playing,” the candidate said.
For his part, MEP Jordan Bardella, president of National Regroupment, presents his party as “the only patriotic option” that will be at the polls. “Not voting is a pleasure for Macron and gives him another five years free hands to punish families, hit the popular classes, continue the fiscal bloodshed and exacerbate social looting,” warned Bardella, the friend of a cousin of Le Pen. .
If the second round of the parliamentary elections were held today, Macron’s party and its allies would win between 260 and 300 seats; the trade union of left-wing parties, between 175 and 215 seats; the Republicans; between 35 and 55, and Le Pen’s feast between 20 and 50, according to the latest poll by Ipsos Sopra Steria for France TV and Radio France.
Currently, the far-right formation has only 6 out of 577 National Assembly deputies. If it gets at least 15, it can form its own parliamentary group and table a motion of censure with 58 seats.
Source: La Verdad
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