While the prospect of a new duel between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen is becoming clearer for 2022, the camp of the President of the Republic lets go of the blows.
Tuesday evening, it was the Prime Minister's turn to attack the president of the National Rally on BFMTV.
In the eyes of the Prime Minister, a victory for the party's candidate in the flame would be
"a disaster for the country".
The head of government indeed judges that the member does
not
have
"the necessary skills to manage"
France.
"I will fight with all my strength so that this does not happen"
, pledged the host of Matignon, while several polls predict a narrow victory for the head of state against his opponent.
"The prospect that Madame Le Pen is approaching power is extremely worrying,"
said Jean Castex, targeting his
"electoral strategy"
which consists of
"wearing a little more sympathetic attire"
while the
"ideological background has no not changed ”
.
Faced with this prospect,
"we must be the most competent, the most convincing to serve our country, to transform it and to protect it"
, urged the Prime Minister, refusing to react to the words of his Minister of the Interior. Gérald Darmanin who felt that Marine Le Pen had become
"soft"
during a debate on France 2.
Majority tenors
The strategy to fight the rise of the RN divides the tenors of the majority.
Jean Castex also pointed out the responsibility of the oppositions, guilty according to him of sending back to back Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
"When I hear people say 'between Mr. Macron and Madame Le Pen it's the same thing, we won't choose', it's quite scandalous"
, condemned the number one of the government, referring in particular to the head of row of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
"It is extremely shocking, this left which would not choose between Emmanuel Macron and Madame Le Pen (...).
I think an unacceptable limit has been crossed by saying that, ”
he added.
In 2017, Jean-Luc Mélenchon refused to call to vote for Emmanuel Macron to block Marine Le Pen.
The parliamentarian, candidate for the third time in the presidential election, confirmed this strategy, arguing recently on France that
"the instructions have no weight today".
The weakening of the Republican front worries some officials of the majority.