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The ultra Zemmour calls for a right-wing coalition for the French legislative

2022-04-20T22:20:00.193Z


Like the leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the far-right leader calls for unity to achieve a parliamentary majority in the June elections


The French presidential elections have not yet ended and operations are already intensifying to consolidate the configuration of three voting blocs in France: a broad center around Emmanuel Macron, a left around the populist Jean-Luc Mélenchon and a right-wing pole radical that brings together from the most conservative wing of The Republicans (LR) to the extreme right of Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour.

After Mélenchon invited the French on Tuesday to make him prime minister by giving a majority to a left-wing coalition led by him in the June legislative elections, it is the turn of the ultra polemicist Zemmour to make his commitment to a united radical right to dominate the National Assembly.

"I propose a great right-wing coalition and all patriots for the next legislative ones," Zemmour launched on social networks.

"I extend my hand to the National Rally (RN), to the Republicans who reject macronism and to Debout la France [the party of sovereignist Nicolas-Dupont Aignan]", added the failed presidential candidate, who was fourth in the first round —after Macron , Le Pen and Mélenchon—with 7% of the votes.

In a tribune published Wednesday in

Le Figaro,

hours before the only electoral debate between Macron and Le Pen, the vice presidents of his party, Reconquista, newly appointed on Tuesday, insisted on the need for this alliance to avoid what happened to the RN in 2017. In those legislative elections Despite the fact that Le Pen had reached the second presidential round, her party obtained so few deputies that they could not form their own group.

"The election of a new majority in the National Assembly will be of crucial importance in the future of our country," wrote Marion Maréchal, Guillaume Peltier and Nicolas Bay, all former senior members of the National Rally (Maréchal is Le Pen's niece) who Before the first round, they joined the Zemmourist ranks.

"We will have to be able to build a presidential majority around Marine Le Pen [if he wins on Sunday] or impose a coexistence on Macron that prevents him from having full legislative powers for the next five years," they warn in a message of great similarities. with the one launched on Tuesday night by Mélenchon, who also seeks to unite the left to achieve a parliamentary majority.

“No party can hope to obtain it alone and the others have understood it”, point out the Zemmourists.

Zemmour's team hopes to bring back to its ranks the most right-wing wing of the Republicans, whose candidate, Valérie Pécresse, suffered a painful defeat in the first round by falling behind Zemmour and not even getting 5% of the necessary votes. to be reimbursed for campaign expenses, which has left his party on the verge of bankruptcy.

It also seeks to reconcile positions with the Le Pen formation, for which, for a few weeks last fall, Zemmour was a dangerous rival, although in the end its extreme positions have helped to further demonize and normalize the RN candidate, closer than ever. – although still quite a distance from Macron, according to the polls – from the Elysee.

That is perhaps why Le Pen's party seems to keep its distance for the moment, at least until the second round on Sunday is over.

The vice president of the RN and mayor of Perpignan, Louis Aliot, said Tuesday that he had taken note of the outstretched hand of the Zemmourists, but made it clear that his party will wait because the appeal seems premature and "too vague" to analyze at this time. .

"We haven't said no.

We will discuss it after the presidential elections”, he declared on the Europe1 radio station.

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Source: elparis

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