The leader of the National Rally deputies, Marine Le Pen, called on the French on Wednesday to “inflict” on President Emmanuel Macron “the most scathing electoral sanction” possible during the European elections on June 9. “We must counter them, we must sanction them, we must dismiss them,” launched Marine Le Pen from the platform of her party’s major meeting in Perpignan. “We must give this power the most scathing electoral sanction that can be inflicted on it. And this sanction will be measured by the gap between the list led by Jordan Bardella and that of the Macronist deconstructors,” she said. .
“One day, one round, one vote: Bardella”
For now and 39 days before the election, Jordan Bardella’s RN list is well ahead of that of the Macronist majority led by Valérie Hayer: 29% of voting intentions compared to 19%, according to an Opinionway poll for Europe 1, CNews and The Sunday Journal published April 19. “This election of June 9 constitutes (…) a call for general mobilization,” declared Marine Le Pen at the opening of her speech. “No abstentions, but no dispersion either,” she advocated, warning voters who could be tempted by other candidacies on the right, in particular that of Marion Maréchal (Reconquest) on the far right.
“A single day, a single round, a single vote: Bardella,” she insisted, urging that “June 9 be the first step in a great alternation in Europe, but also (…) because there are presidential elections in 2027 in France.
In front of more than 2,000 activists gathered in the largest city run by the RN, Marine Le Pen called on her troops not to “give in to intellectual terrorism” on the subject of the European Union. “We are right to be critical. We are right to want something different for Europe and for France and for ourselves,” she pleaded, admitting to wanting to “say no” on certain themes, such as “migratory submersion”, “the destruction of our economy in the name of a decreasing ecology” or the “technocratic government of Brussels or elsewhere”.