Marine Le Pen, leader of the deputies of the National Rally, joked Thursday about the European speech of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron between “incantations” and “gesticulations”. “On the European scene, Emmanuel Macron has been confusing his incantations and gesticulations with achievements for seven years,” she said on X, accusing him of “selling out entire sections of national sovereignty”.
The president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, head of his party’s list for the European elections on June 9, for his part estimated during a press conference that the head of state “decided to intervene directly and personally in an electoral campaign. Qualifying Emmanuel Macron as a “spokesperson” for his candidate Valérie Hayer, Jordan Bardella once again deemed the dissolution of the National Assembly “inevitable” “in the event of electoral disavowal” for the Macronist camp, which he is clearly ahead of in the surveys.
“Sick country of Europe”
After some criticism against the “slogan thinking” and the “self-satisfaction session” of the Head of State, the number one of the RN rolled out the main axes of his program for “a Europe which protects, which produces (and) which respect.” Defending “the end of naivety” in matters of trade and immigration, he also recalled his opposition “to any further enlargement of the European Union”, as well as to “absurd rules for setting electricity prices “, while attacking “bureaucratic disease and punitive ecology”.
For their part, the Republicans on Thursday described “Emmanuel Macron’s France” as a “sick country of Europe”, on the eve of the first salvo of debt ratings for the country, while demanding that his speech of the Sorbonne is counted from the Renaissance campaign. “Emmanuel Macron’s staging is that of the great European leader, but the terrible truth of this action is that tomorrow the first agency ratings could downgrade the French debt rating,” the press said. head of the list LR François-Xavier Bellamy after the head of state’s speech on Europe.
France “cannot teach a lesson”
“Emmanuel Macron’s France is the sick country of Europe and that’s what everyone is talking about in Strasbourg and Brussels,” denounced the outgoing MEP during a press conference in Paris on his return from the last session of the European Parliament. François-Xavier Bellamy, whose list is stagnating around 8% in the polls, warned that the country would be “placed in infringement procedure for excessive deficit by the European Commission”, after its slippage to 5.5% of GDP l last year, believing that France “cannot teach a lesson” in these conditions to other members of the EU.
“It’s a campaign speech, a campaign act,” said the outgoing MEP, recalling that LR boss Eric Ciotti had written to the National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Financing (CNCCFP) and to the Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication (Arcom) to ask them to take this speech into account as a campaign act. “This demonstration cannot be seen as the international action of the head of state, because it constitutes an electoral propaganda operation in support of a list,” wrote Eric Ciotti. The latter specifies that his request concerns “direct and indirect costs as well as various benefits in kind received”.