According to all polls, Rassemblement National is overwhelmingly favored ahead of the early general elections on 30 June and 7 July. “I fight for my country, I fight for my people and I am ready to make enormous sacrifices for them”, said the leader of the far-right party. The outgoing prime minister Attal: their victory risks causing a “great rift in the country”
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The legislative elections in France are now upon us. The vote, called by President Emmanuel Macron after the defeat at the European elections, will be held on 30 June and 7 July. The party of the French president and his outgoing prime minister Gabriel Attal, Renaissance, has to contend with the far-right Rassemblement National party, led by founding leader Marine Le Pen and its president (and now aspiring prime minister) Jordan Bardella. Polls see the latter as overwhelmingly favored, with a percentage exceeding 30% against Macron’s party down by at least 10 percentage points.
Le Pen: “Ready to fight for my people”
The polls favor RN and the leader of the French right continues to reiterate that she is ready to make all the necessary sacrifices for the good of France. “Once again, I fight for my country, I fight for my people and for them I am ready to make enormous sacrifices like many people around me”, said Marine Le Pen during an interview with RTL radio. The leader she then responded to a question from the journalist who asked her if she wasn’t ”afraid” of running for prime minister instead of her favourite, Jordan Bardella ”We need to stop with this story that we are ‘afraid of…’. “, It reaffirmed. “If I was afraid of anything, I would have decided to plant strawberries, I would have decided to breed cats as my main activity. I could have entered many professions where there is absolutely no risk. Let me say that my journey may suggest that I am brave enough that I am not very afraid of anything.”
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Le Pen: “I believe we will have an absolute majority”
In French local elections, whoever obtains an absolute majority of votes, i.e. more than 50% with at least 25% of registered voters, automatically wins. However, if a party wins with a relative majority, it would have to form alliances in order to govern. This last hypothesis, however, seems not to be in Marine Le Pen’s plans, convinced of the victory of Rassemblement National. During the interview, the journalist asked the right-wing leader if she thinks Macron could resign: “I don’t think so – she replied – because I think we will have an absolute majority and therefore we will be able to govern” France. Therefore speaking about a possible cohabitation between her prime ministerial candidate, Jordan Bardella, and the president, Emmanuel Macron, Le Pen said: “We will be in cohabitation until 2027: this does not pose any difficulties for us. The constitution is very clear: it is the prime minister who determines and implements the nation’s policy.”
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Attal: “The country is risking its life”
For French Prime Minister and Macronian candidate Gabriel Attal, a victory for the Rassemblement National or the left-wing coalition Nouveau Front Populaire would risk causing a “major rift in the country”, threatening “our economy, the savings and security of the French”. The country is risking its skin – he stated – The more I go on the ground, the more I meet Frenchmen who will ever resign themselves to remaining caught in the pincer between La France insoumise (LFI) and the RN. I believe it: on Sunday, it will be the time for the French to shake up.”
The polls
The scenario of victory by Rassemblement National also seems to be supported by the polls. Harris Interactive Poll, cited by La Repubblica, states that Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella’s Rassemblement National would obtain 33% of the votes, ahead of the New Popular Front (the united left) at 27% and Macron’s centrists at 20%. The Ipsos poll, reported by Sole 24Ore, offers slightly different data but which still sees the far-right party in the advantage. Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National and her allies would be firmly in the lead in the first round of the parliamentary elections with 35.5% of the vote. In second place with 29.5% of the votes was the left-wing alliance Nouveau Front Populaire (NPF). President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance stopped at 19.5%.
