His candidacy for the regional barely formalized, he is already on the ground.
Eric Dupond-Moretti, who carries the torch of the majority in Pas-de-Calais, wasted not a minute to embark on his first electoral campaign.
Accompanied by Laurent Pietraszewski, head of the LREM list in Hauts-de-France, and surrounded by about twenty activists, but also by Tiphaine Auzière, the daughter-in-law of Emmanuel Macron, the Minister of Justice attacked this Saturday, under beautiful clearings, on the ascent of the 74a slag heap of Loos-en-Gohelle (Pas-de-Calais).
The opportunity for the tenor of the native bar of Maubeuge (North) to initiate a resolutely anti-RN discourse.
What set the tone for his future campaign.
It is true that on May 8, the time was not for pacification between the two camps.
A few hours earlier, Marine Le Pen had opened fire, in her stronghold of Hénin Beaumont, mocking "the [...] relatively strange obsession" of the minister towards her.
"It seems that there are some anti-reconciliation bracelets in rab, I am taking", continued the head of the RN, echoing the words of the Minister of Justice who had indicated this Friday, following the feminicide of Mérignac (Gironde), that these protective devices for women were in sufficient number.
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A remark that aroused excitement in the majority and among the main interested.
“In this family, they are used to questionable jokes and badly made puns.
It's indecency, nameless rudeness.
In my family, no one has committed torture and I have never been convicted of pushing a woman, moreover an elected one, which is the case of Mr. Le Pen ”, thundered in return Éric Dupond -Moretti.
"I want to chase the RN"
The latter has also concentrated most of his attacks and his speeches in his duel with the National Rally. “I don't want to hunt on RN land, I want to hunt RN. This land of immigration, brotherhood, generosity deserves better than the hatred propagated by the RN, ”he insisted. The heavyweight of the government, which also has for mission to weaken the outgoing president ex-LR, Xavier Bertrand, already candidate for the presidential election of 2022, thus reserved the main part of his blows to Marine Le Pen. “Xavier Bertrand […] is an opponent whom I consider to be a Republican Democrat. Marine La Peste… Uh Marine Le Pen is an enemy that I hate, ”he said with a pretty slip of the tongue.
A strategy paying off in this region, where the head of the RN list Sébastien Chenu, is on the rise in the polls? “He is a candidate in his first election and he did not choose the easy way. He goes into battle and shows that he is not afraid of difficult fights, ”enthuses those around him. The few families who walk around are rather surprised to meet the Keeper of the Seals on the path to the slag heap: “But why come and campaign here? »Asks David, who is used to the place. It's a really funny idea. "Well anyway, it's all the same, we see them before the elections and after pffft, they disappear", sweeps Françoise, who walks her dog.
A reproach that Eric Dupont-Moretti firmly anticipates: “I come to win. I have measured my time and affirm that I will come here when I am elected. I have children here, my father was born here, my mother put her bags here. It is also with the latter that Eric Dupond-Moretti went to spend the night. History to show clearly that he is a child of the country.