PARIS (Reuters) – Prime Minister Gabriel Attal launched on Saturday in Lille (North) the electoral campaign of the “Need for Europe” list, the political party of President Emmanuel Macron, led by MEP Valérie Hayer.
Preceding the latter from the podium of the Grand Palais in Lille, the Prime Minister, like other speakers before him, focused his attacks on the National Rally, whose list is led by its president Jordan Bardella, given largely in the lead by the opinion studies.
“The situation is serious,” said the head of government, referring pell-mell to climate change, the war in Ukraine, the agricultural crisis.
“In front of us rise the rentiers of fear,” said Gabriel Attal before openly targeting the National Rally and the “Le Pen camp” whose discretion he denounced in Brussels and their vote in the European hemicycle, recalling in particular that the RN had voted against the CAP, refused to vote “more than 20 times” in favor of aid to Ukraine.
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“The record of 40 years of the Le Pen clan in the European Parliament can be summed up in a few votes: a litany of betrayal against the interests of the French.”
“Today a French person sees more of the National Rally by switching to his television for an hour than a MEP by spending five years in the hemicycle of the European Parliament.”
The Prime Minister then left the podium to Valérie Hayer, the MEP responsible for leading the “Need for Europe” list who endeavored to seize this opportunity to fill a clear deficit in notoriety.
MEP Valérie Hayer, little known to the general public, has been appointed to lead the majority list for the June 9 election.
“I heard in the early hours of this campaign that I would be a choice by default. I dare to hope that people do not say that because I am a woman, a young woman,” she said. .
“Proud of her rural roots”, she tried to make the link between her Mayenne origins and Brussels where she served a five-year mandate where she sits within the Renew group.
“A woman who grew up on her parents’ farm and who knows, having seen it up close, what Europe brings to farmers.”
“Believing in Europe is not a luxury reserved for an elite,” she insisted before listing the challenges that the European Union will have to face, in her turn, evoking the conflict in Ukraine. , not failing to accuse the National Rally of being the zealous support of Moscow.
“Yesterday Daladier and Chamberlain, today Le Pen and Orban. We are in Munich in 1938. It is one minute to midnight.”
Wednesday during the council of ministers, Emmanuel Macron invited the government to actively participate in the campaign, in an international context darkened by the war in Ukraine.
(Written by Nicolas Delame with Elizabeth Pineau)
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