The majority prepares its weapons.
If the President of the Republic is delayed in the electoral battle, his supporters no longer hesitate to fire red balls at the other contenders.
Starting with the one who has made a name for himself in the chiseled and precise attack on the opposition, government spokesman Gabriel Attal.
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Guest of France Inter, the member of the government puts all right-wing candidates in the same bag.
“
I had spoken of a three-way carousel, but there is a transfer window between the three.
They pass on either people, ideas, or words.
There is a kind of circular economy that has settled between Valérie Pécresse, Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen
, ”said the government spokesperson on Sunday on France Inter.
And to point
out “supports which go from one to the other, ideas which go from one to the other and words which go from one to the other.
»
According to him, “
Marine Le Pen is the original product, the Pécresse-Ciotti duo copies it, and Zemmour a recycling bin
”.
After having taken care to throw his pikes, Gabriel Attal however believes that "
this is not the subject that interests the French the most
".
The latter "
would wait
" for "
the government to act until the end
".
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Less than three months from the presidential election, the member of the government does not want to give the impression that the executive is already campaigning.
“
Can you imagine if we were there and we said 'there is a presidential election coming up so we are going to raise our pencils'?
“, pretends to wonder the government spokesman.
While Gabriel Attal "
does not want to run a campaign that has not started
", the question of Emmanuel Macron's declaration of candidacy arises more and more. If the President of the Republic wanted to wait until his inaugural speech in the European Parliament on January 19 - when the presidential campaign was nevertheless transposed in the hemicycle in the face of the opposition that challenged him - to pass, he now has the hands free to start racing. With the aim of making this candidacy obvious.
In an interview with Le
Parisien
on Sunday, the President of the National Assembly indicates that
“not a Frenchman doubts that the President will be a candidate”.
An offensive strategy which aims to remobilize the troops while Emmanuel Macron loses 4 popularity points (37%) on Sunday in the Ifop barometer for Le
JDD
.
