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The president of the LR returned, Thursday, June 16 on Europe 1, on the trip of Emmanuel Macron to kyiv, the legislative elections, the number of potential deputies on the LR side and delivered, in passing, his analyzes on the NUPES and the balance sheet by Emmanuel Macron.
Christian Jacob began the interview by commenting on the trip of Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Mario Draghi to kyiv: “Everything must be done to obtain a ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian troops. If we really want to reach an agreement, it’s not by putting ourselves on the stage. Diplomacy doesn’t happen in front of the TVs. Let’s be careful not to be caricatural in the staging and I’m a little afraid that’s it. The president of LR added that “there were serious diplomatic errors before this conflict” and that, if “Europe took two steps to react, but is moving forward today together”, it was not necessary to do of “diplomacy” [un objet de] communication. »
Quoting “Jacques Chirac [qui] would never have been in this caricature”, he criticized “the images, the construction and the staging of the displacement [qui] would never have been that one “in the time of the former President of the Republic.
About the legislative elections, Christian Jacob said: “We are approaching these elections with confidence because on the one hand we have Emmanuel Macron’s immobility and on the other the excesses of the extremes. We have a very clear position: we are in a useful opposition against Emmanuel Macron. We are force of proposal. We have never blocked institutions like Mélenchon or been in absenteeism at Marine Le Pen. There is a path of responsibility and we embody it. »
“There will be no NUPES group in the National Assembly because all the groups will sit on their side” says Christian Jacob
According to him, the LRs who will sit in Parliament “work[ent] in the general interest of the country. To vote on texts, the opposition must be considered. If Parliament is blocked, what do we do? As the texts are drafted, if our proposals are accepted, we want to vote on them. “The president of the LR then continued:” We will be force of proposal each time. Fortunately, the right is in the majority in the Senate. There will be no compromises or alliances. »
As for standing up to Emmanuel Macron, Christian Jacob said the party “will bring proposals”, including “to vote on texts when they go in the right direction. “His confidence in this second round is due, according to him, to the fact that the LRs have “candidates firmly anchored in their territories, not migratory birds which show up once and which disappear. “About a potential second round Together against the NUPES or the RN, he decided:” We said clearly: no voice for the extremes, right or left. We know who they are. »
The NUPES then took it for its rank: “There will be no NUPES group in the National Assembly because all the groups will sit on their side. Intergroups do not exist, they are political groups. These are facade agreements. The history of the PS is not the same as the Trotskyists, Islam-leftists and others. Then Marine Le Pen: “With Madame Le Pen, who has an economic program close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon? And, finally, Emmanuel Macron: “The management of public finances has been catastrophic under Emmanuel Macron, worse than under François Hollande. This was before Covid. Why has public spending doubled? »