According to him, these are “mid-term” elections. Jordan Bardella, who leads the RN list for the European elections, indicated this Wednesday that he would demand a dissolution of the National Assembly if he came first on June 9.
“I will ask for the dissolution of the National Assembly that very evening,” warned the far-right leader on BFMTV and RMC, estimating that “the European elections are the only occasion, the only national election of the five-year term , which should therefore allow the French to express themselves on government policy, to make their anger heard by Emmanuel Macron and consequently, to designate the political movement which will be responsible for preparing the alternation.
In a Toluna-Harris Interactive poll published this Wednesday, the National Rally list received 30% of voting intentions, followed by that of the Macronists, credited with 16%. “When we are in power, when we are 10 to 15 points apart from the first opposition party, there is a problem, not of legitimacy, but of credibility for the presidential majority,” argued the boss of the RN. According to him, “the President of the Republic will have no other solution than to return to the polls”.
“One of the best attendance rates for French MEPs”
Jordan Bardella also estimated that "54 days before the European elections, everyone is talking like us", targeting in particular Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who must make announcements this week on security. “I would like there to be elections more often because the executive has done the exact opposite of the firm postures that Gabriel Attal is adopting two months before a European election where the National Rally is in the lead” , he quipped.
Also questioned about his presence in the European Parliament, Jordan Bardella assured that he had “one of the best attendance rates of French MEPs with 94% voting attendance”. Data verified by the site which lists the activity of assistEU MEPs. The rates of his opponents François-Xavier Bellamy (99.7%), Valérie Hayer (98.8%), Manon Aubry (97%) and Raphaël Glucksmann (97%) are however higher than his. “We must not confuse the roles”, insisted the current RN MEP who recalls being “in the opposition”. “For five years I have done the work entrusted to me by French voters. »
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According to data compiled by Le Parisien - Today in France last November, Jordan Bardella had only tabled 21 amendments, compared to more than 3,400 for Manon Aubry. “What did they change in their amendments which consist of moving commas? », tackled the president of the RN according to whom his party appears “for many as a real hope”. The figures from Le Parisien - Today in France were taken up at that time by Manon Aubry who stated that “in the European Parliament, there are those who work and the ghost deputies”.
“I fought the Green Deal, which imposes standards on our business leaders which are now harming their competitiveness. I fought again last week in Brussels the pact for immigration
(pact on migration and asylum, editor's note)
, which provides for the compulsory distribution of migrants in French municipalities, under the constraint of financial punishment for the municipalities and states that refuse to welcome migrants,” Jordan Bardella also defended.