Jean-Yves Le Drian urged on Sunday June 13 his two heirs, Loïg Chesnais-Girard, president (PS) of the region candidate for his re-election, and Thierry Burlot, ex-PS and candidate without label invested by LREM, to meet in the evening of the first round of regional in Brittany facing the
"real danger"
represented by the National Rally (RN).
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“The RN was almost at 19% when I was elected president in 2015. There, he can be ahead in the first round. BUT it can also remain so in the second if the division continues. And that would be dramatic for Brittany ”
, declares the former president of the region and current Minister of Foreign Affairs in an interview with the daily Ouest-France. In Brittany, where Marine Le Pen's party had so far been little established, its candidate Gilles Pennelle would come in first with 20% of the voting intentions, according to an Ipsos poll for France 3 published on Wednesday, ahead of Loïg by a short head. Chesnais-Girard and Thierry Burlot, both at 19%.
To explain the divisions of his former allies, Jean-Yves Le Drian evokes a
"competition on the place of each other", "one claiming the PS and the other more from the presidential majority, while having been himself a socialist ”
. Positions which do not seem contradictory to him but which, according to him, must be
“overcome”
, especially since there is no
“major break between them in the programs”
.
“It is their responsibility to overcome their difficulties to end up with a second round rally. They have to prepare it now. This is essential. The love and the future of Brittany are well worth a peace of the brave ”
, he added, saying on the other hand completely hostile to an alliance with EELV, champion of
"an ideological ecology of stigmatization, guilt and accusation"
.