Yanis Darras
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11:35 a.m., January 21, 2024
The mayor of Meaux and former minister Jean-François Copé was the guest of the Grand Rendez-vous Europe 1/CNews/Les Echos. At the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk, he returned to Emmanuel Macron’s desire to fight the National Rally and ensures that the president is today “an objective ally of the extreme right”.
A few months before the European elections, Emmanuel Macron does not want to lose his battle against the National Rally. Marine Le Pen’s party carefully retains its favorite place in the polls. According to several studies, the list led by Jordan Bardella would win around 30% of the votes next June, or 10 points ahead of the majority list.
“He makes the extreme right his absolute enemy”
However, with the appointment of Gabriel Attal, Macronie wants to see in him an “anti-Bardella weapon”. Questioned this Sunday on the set of the Grand Rendez-vous, Jean-François Copé was skeptical about the possibility of the majority fighting against the National Rally.
“Macron announces a right-wing policy. He appoints a right-wing government. He makes the far right his absolute enemy. Except that at the same time, when you look, these are not structural reforms, they are measures which alone will not solve the problem” that he proposes, assures the mayor of Meaux.
“There will be no results”
“Especially since he does not have the means to have an absolute majority. So that means that in any case, you do not have the means to pass structural reforms. And at the same time, you explain that your absolute adversary, the one that must be fought, is the National Rally. But I will tell you one thing: what is the reality? It is that there will be no results. However, if the French vote for the extreme right, or even the extreme left, it is because they are tired of not seeing results,” he continues.
And to conclude: “The fact that they do not give themselves the means to achieve results makes Emmanuel Macron the objective ally of the extreme right,” insists Jean-François Copé.