The boss of Debout la France can't get over it.
"We live in an incredible country,
" he says barely installed on the set of "Talk
Le Figaro" on
Monday, before the result of the consultation of mayors by the executive is known.
"Already that the parliament no longer votes health measures, that it has been a year since we are no longer in a true democracy and that a single man, the Head of State, decides on unprecedented deprivation of liberty,
s insurgent the deputy for Essonne
, now we have decided to postpone the elections, just like that! "
What does it matter that last March 21, he assured on the set of France 3:
"If it is necessary to shift three months and to have the elections in September so that there is a real campaign, that does not shock me."
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The sixty-year-old already declared candidate for the presidential election believes he has since detected the strategy of the executive behind this new possible postponement of the departmental and regional elections:
“We are one year away from the first round of the election. presidential election.
This maneuver is to postpone the debate on the essential: on the future of the country
, he assures.
We are postponing the local elections so that there is no presidential debate next year. ”
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan maintains that the organization of departmental and regional elections in the fall, would delay discussions
"on the major issues of the country such as security, immigration, health and production in France". .
A postponement which, however, would not have had only disadvantages for the boss of Debout la France.
In an interview with
Le Figaro
last December, the parliamentarian assured that his movement was
"ready"
for the regional and would present
"lists everywhere"
in the 13 metropolitan regions.
In recent weeks, however, her head of the list in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region has preferred to throw in the towel, the one who was to lead the campaign in the Grand Est preferred to join Marine Le Pen, when in Occitanie, the party was forced to take his forfeit for lack of headlining.
"You tell me about the little regional soups!",
Dupont-Aignan sweeps away.
"While the country is sinking, that 250,000 migrants knock on the door, that we face colossal problems of insecurity," he
lists.
You talk to me about painting in high schools and TER… ”
Make your own voice heard in 2022
The candidate readily admits having no more than 2022 in mind:
“I do not accept that we are forced to have a Macron-Le Pen duel.
I know the media want to decide the results of the elections, but they are starting to inflate us.
The media are in the hands of the President of the Republic, let's not allow ourselves to be manipulated by a man who has failed. ”
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The one who supported Marine Le Pen in the second round of the 2017 presidential election - and accepted to be his prime minister in the event of victory - wants to make his own voice heard in 2022, more likely, according to him, to beat the leader of the State at the ballot box:
“As a Gaullist patriot, I present a project that has points in common and differences with that of Marine Le Pen, particularly on the economic level.
I am convinced that if we want to beat Emmanuel Macron, our economic program must be foolproof.
Compared to Marine Le Pen's, I think mine is much more solid and I want to have the right to present it.
I was mayor for twenty-two years, and I know what good management is. ”
Beneficiary, in the first round of the presidential election, from 4 to 6% of the voting intentions according to a recent survey by the Ifop institute published by the
Journal du dimanche
, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan said he was
"not impressed"
by the polls.
“The only valid question is whether the European continent, if France will emerge from history.
We must wake up the French by telling them that we will have to shake things up to straighten out the country! ”