"In the first round we choose, in the second we eliminate", wants to believe Valérie Pécresse.
However, the polls show her eliminated on the evening of the first round.
On France Inter, this Friday morning, candidate LR answered “no and no” to two questions from a listener.
Taking Valérie Pécresse
to the game of “sincerity”
, he asked her what she would do “in the event that you were not in the second round” and if she was likely to become Minister of Emmanuel Macron after his eventual re-election .
“I answer both questions: no and no.
No instructions, I think the French do not want instructions.
I will say who I am voting for but I will not give instructions,” she said, adding immediately: “I hope to be in the second round and I hope I will win”.
.@vpecresse: "If I'm not in the second round, I will never give instructions to vote. I will say who I will vote for but I will not give instructions."
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– France Inter (@franceinter) April 8, 2022
As for becoming a minister, "no, I do not wish to have any responsibility with a President of the Republic who pursues a policy that I disapprove of, failing in terms of immigration, security, reforms", she said.
“Really not a good idea” for Mélenchon
"The voting instructions no longer make sense", annoyed
Jean-Luc Mélenchon
.
“Why would I go and smash that by giving a voting instruction?
I don't give myself a right that I don't have.
It's not really a good idea for me to call to vote for people I'm constantly fighting," assured the candidate of France Insoumise on RFM TV and RMC.
Arriving in fourth position in the first round of the 2017 presidential election, Mélenchon had come under heavy criticism for not having publicly chosen the candidate to support, between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen.
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Conversely, the communist
Fabien Roussel
was very clear, knowing that he has little chance of qualifying for the second round: “Of course we will give instructions to vote.
We will never accept that the far right comes to power in France.
We want to push back the far right, ”said the candidate on France 2.
In an interview with AFP, the director of the Jean-Jaurès Foundation, Gilles Finchelstein, estimated that, on Sunday evening, if Marine Le Pen or Éric Zemmour qualified for the final fight, it was not certain that a a broad appeal to the Republican front be launched to block the extreme right.
"The Republican front has been eroded from above and from below", from above with the "ni-ni" of the UMP, in particular in 2012 during the legislative elections, and of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in 2015;
from below “with voters who mobilized less strongly during the second rounds with the National Front”.
