Nicolas Dupont-Aignan will not present a list in the European elections.
After an unsuccessful attempt in the 2019 election (3.51% of the votes, insufficient to send MEPs to Strasbourg), the president of Debout La France announced that he would not try the experiment again on June 9, due to lack of financial means.
“My role is to be in the National Assembly
,” he first explained this Tuesday on Europe 1 and CNews.
“There are lots of lists.
And, at a time when France is bankrupt and there is this conflict [between Ukraine and Russia], my job, my modest job is to defend a certain idea of France and to prepare for the following deadlines which seem to me much more important than the European ones
,” he continued.
“We didn’t have the financial means”
And to explain more frankly the reasons for his withdrawal:
“We could have made a Debout la France list without me, [...] but we did not have the financial means.
Or at least, we wanted to concentrate, to keep our financial resources for the following deadlines because I have always refused the slightest debt.
If the former ally of Marine Le Pen between the two rounds of the 2017 presidential election will support a candidate
“when the time comes”
, he clearly poses his adversaries.
“What is certain is that we must beat at all costs the list of Mrs. I don't know her name [Valérie Hayer, editor's note] and then of Mr. Glucksmann, who are dangerous.
[...] They want to eliminate France, wipe it off the map.
When you transfer all powers to Brussels, you eliminate France
,” he raged against the respective candidates of the presidential majority and the socialists.
Faced with
“all the nuances of sovereignism”
which present a list to the Europeans, the non-attached member of Essonne does not wish to add
“[his] little music”
.
“I don’t have the taste for small soups
,” he said.
Before wishing
“good luck to all those who go because it is a noble fight”
.