The confusion will have undermined Emmanuel Macron's camp.
In the evening and until the day after the first round of the legislative elections, where the Nupes came second behind the presidential majority, the executive had great difficulty in giving coherent voting instructions.
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Friday, June 17 in the morning, invited on RTL, Elisabeth Borne, campaigning in Calvados, therefore wanted to be clear.
"
Not a voice for the far right
," she hammered.
Before adding: “
I have no lesson to receive from Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
I called to support communist candidates, socialists, Europe Ecology The Greens.
The Prime Minister then argued that in the "
107 constituencies where the majority faces candidates from the National Rally
" the Insoumis leader "
did not call for a vote for any candidate from the presidential majority
".
Asked about the position of Jean-Michel Blanquer, candidate eliminated in the first round in Loiret who did not give any particular voting instructions while in his constituency, a communist candidate from Nupes faces an RN candidate, Élisabeth Borne swept away: “
The position of the presidential majority is very clear.
Not a voice for the extreme right.
»
According to the head of government, the Nupes is an “
alliance of circumstance
” in which there are “
republican
” candidates.
Those, she insists, “
we support them
”.
On the other hand, “
the candidates of France Insoumise who do not share our republican values, who question the role of our police officers, we do not support them.
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