European far-right chief Jordan Bardella urged voters to cast a distinct majority in snap elections on June 30 in order to serve as prime minister on Tuesday.
With less than two days until the first round, the party led by President Emmanuel Macron is now in fourth place in polls behind the far-right and a new left-wing alliance.
” I need an overall majority”, Bardella, the 28- season- old chief of the far- proper National Rally ( Nurse ) group, told CNews and Europe 1 presenters.
” I do n’t want to be the president’s assistant”, he said.
After the RN trounced his moderate alliance in Western elections, Macron demanded the parliamentary vote on June 30 and a second round on July 7. He lost his overall majority in parliament in 2022.
His dangerous ploy, which aims to sway more voters in the lower chamber, has led the left and right to form eleventh-hour partnerships with hardliners in the primaries just weeks before Paris’s Olympic games in July and August.
Bardella is hoping to win enough seats to become the youngest head of the French government always. His group has aligned itself with a portion of the standard straight for the June 30 voting.
Bardella claimed that the election would give them the “historic opportunity to alter the course of history.”
” But to do that I need an overall majority”, he said.
A new poll has highlighted that the far right might win the election with less than a month until the vote.
According to the IFOP ballot for the LCI TV route, the RN may get 33 percent of the vote, the New Popular Front left- wing alliance 28 percent and Macron’s ruling centrists only 18 percent.
However, such a result would make it unlikely that the RN would be able to secure the 289 seats required for a 577-seat majority in the National Assembly.
– ‘ Plague and cholera’-
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, 35, the youngest person to lead the country’s government, urged voters to choose his party’s candidates from the first round as the only” credible” alternative to keep the far right and hard left out of power.
He claimed that if France were to win, programs from the far right and the hard left would” straight to bankruptcy.”
Former minister Francois Bayrou, a key ally of the president, told another radio channel, Sud Radio, that the country faced two “menacing blocs” on either side on the political spectrum.
He promised to fight off two options he described as” the plague and cholera” with all he could.
Macron was scheduled to visit the island of Sein on Tuesday to commemorate Charles de Gaulle’s rallying cry against Nazi occupation. It was 84 years old.
Macron was supposed to pay tribute to the 128 islanders who reportedly left their fishing boats for England after hearing de Gaulle’s call to the Resistance, according to the Elysee.
Since calling the elections, Macron– who is in power until 2027– has kept a low profile in the campaign, which is being led by the more popular Attal.
A voter on Monday posted a video of him saying,” You’re okay, but you need to tell the president to keep his mouth shut,” during a campaign stop.
Attal admitted that there were French who were “angry” or “unhappy with the dissolution” of parliament, but emphasised that Macron had been “elected until 2027”.
