The leader of the LREM deputies, Christophe Castaner, accused Sunday April 11 to the left of "
being wrong opponent
" by targeting, according to him, Emmanuel Macron in preference to the candidate RN Marine le Pen in view of the presidential election of 2022.
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"
That they stop giving us lessons and especially to play with fire, that they stop wanting to break the republican front, that they stop being mistaken adversary, and I say it to all the left
", launched on Radio J the elected official from the PS, affirming that "the
whole left still considers that its opponent is Macron and not Le Pen
".
"
My first fight will be to prevent her from being in the lead in the 1st round, and Emmanuel Macron, if he was a candidate, is the best bulwark for that,
" said Christophe Castaner, citing an Ifop-Fiducial poll for the
JDD
and Sud-Radio on Sunday, according to which President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen are leading the voting intentions in the first round, far in front of potential candidates from the various left-wing parties.
“
None of the left-wing candidates in the second round,
if the polls are to be believed
, is able to beat Marine Le Pen.
Emmanuel Macron, yes,
”insisted the former Minister of the Interior.
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Christophe Castaner has also qualified the candidate RN of "
Barbapapa of politics
", who would "
turn around (...) on all the ideas that she had deeply inscribed, against Europe, against the repayment of the debt , against Schengen
”.
According to him, Marine Le Pen has “no
longer any corpus
”.
"
She has only one ambition, to want power at all costs, even if it means giving up everything to have power,
" he adds.