A political earthquake. This is neither more nor less what France has just experienced this Sunday, June 9, at 9 p.m., when Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly, after the slap received by the presidential camp and its candidate Valérie Hayer in the Europeans (14.7%, far behind Jordan Bardella). The atmosphere was therefore tense on TV sets, particularly on France 2 where Anne-Sophie Lapix was sometimes forced to raise her voice. Faced with the losers of the evening, or the winners like Laurent Jacobelli, RN deputy, who attacked the socialist Carole Delga during a heated discussion on immigration.
“Ms Delga, let people talk, you are not co-host of this debate! Please calm down“, he tells her, while Carole Delga repeats that “the extreme right will not come to power in France“. An attitude immediately reprimanded by Anne-Sophie Lapix. “We don’t say “calm down”, we are respectfulshe corrects firmly, without losing her smile. Not that kind of vocabulary on this set, thank you“, she concludes.
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What score for the RN and Jordan Bardella in the 2024 Europeans?
Unsurprisingly, it was Jordan Bardella, already announced as the winner by the polls months ago, who won the most votes: according to the latest estimates, the heir to Marine Le Pen obtained 31.5% of the votes. The young president of the RN is ahead of Valérie Hayer, Raphaël Glucksmann (14%), Manon Aubry (9%), François-Xavier Bellamy (7.2%), Marie Toussaint (5.5%) and Marion Maréchal (5.4%). %).
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