Rarely has the name of a foreign political leader been so targeted in an electoral campaign.
That of the Europeans has barely begun and already Ursula von der Leyen is the subject of crossfire from all the French forces on the right of the political spectrum.
From LR to RN via Reconquête: the German president of the European Commission, in the campaign to be reappointed to the Berlaymont building in Brussels, has become the Turkish head of the right and the extreme right.
“It represents what the French hate in the EU: technocracy, bureaucracy, the lack of democracy linked to its desire to extend its powers beyond what the treaties confer on it,” explains a strategist from Reconquête.
At her first meeting, on March 10 in Paris, Marion Maréchal, who distributed leaflets “No to von der Leyen” at the Palais des Sports, crushed the head of the European executive: “With her, it is not not happiness is in the meadow, it's joy is in the hijab.
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