The day after the announcement of his candidacy for the LREM list of Hauts-de-France for the regional elections, the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti continues his attacks against the National Rally.
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"
The National Front
(sic)
is for me a real danger for democracy, whether it is its national or regional variation
", he declared on Saturday May 8 during a visit announced at the last moment on a market in Lens. “
There is only the confrontation, never the shadow of a proposal, never the desire to debate. It's curious to conceive of democracy without debate, isn't it?
He continued.
The day before, the former tenor of the bar who will not be head of the list, justified his candidacy by one objective: to beat the RN. "
I will be in the first row in the Pas-de-Calais on Laurent Pietraszewski's list
[…],
because I do not want this land to slip into the hands of the RN
", declared Éric Dupond-Moretti in an interview with
La Voices of the North
. “
Madame Le Pen refuses to debate with me. She does not want to come to me, so I come to her, ”
he declared, assuring that he wanted to“
demonstrate that the National Rally project is a sham
”
.
Outgoing regional councilor, Marine Le Pen does not represent herself but is a candidate for departmental in Pas-de-Calais, in the canton of Hénin-Beaumont. The Hauts-de-France region is, with the PACA region, the only one where the RN is the sole opponent in the hemicycle, after the 2015 regional withdrawal from the PS list to block Ms. Le Pen, who arrived in lead in the first round with 40.6% of the vote.