During the program 'Vous avec la parole' with Marine Le Pen and Gérald Darmanin.

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LREM MEP Stéphane Séjourné explained this Sunday that he would not have qualified Marine Le Pen as "soft", as Gérald Darmanin did this week, while the general delegate of the presidential party Stanislas Guerini tried to justify the term.

During their televised debate Thursday evening, the Minister of the Interior accused on several occasions the president of the RN and candidate for the Elysee of "softness", against Islamism in particular.

Stéphane Séjourné, a close friend of Emmanuel Macron and a former socialist, explained to Europe 1-

Les Echos

-Cnews that Gérald Darmanin "wanted to say" that she was "blurry".

"We have seen Marine Le Pen quite faithful to herself" and "what Gerald Darmanin says in hollow is that she has not changed much," he said.

"She was soft because she was blurry," Stanislas Guerini, another ex-PS, also told franceinfo.

"Gérald Darmanin has helped to unmask Marine Le Pen", which "has absolutely not changed since 2017" according to him.

Le Pen, LREM's first opponent

Government spokesman Gabriel Attal had estimated Friday on Europe 1 that she had "perhaps" sought to "make believe" that she was "soft", but that in fact "she is lying, she is fuzzy" , and "that's what makes it particularly dangerous for our country."

The fight against the National Rally is "the fight since the first day that we lead", insisted Stanislas Guerini this Sunday.

In an interview with the

Parisian

, the leader of LREM deputies Christophe Castaner made her the first opponent, with the objective "that she was not first in the first round of the presidential election", and admits: "It is true that we have not always been able to reassure in the face of the concerns of globalization ", not to mention the health crisis, while" Marine Le Pen, she surfs on all the anxieties, whatever they are, without offering anything ".

Not a "connivance"

Calling right and left to "participate in the political battle against the National Front" now RN, Stéphane Séjourné deplored that currently "nobody attacks Marine Le Pen in the oppositions", seeing it "a form of cynicism".

“Everyone thinks that we have to win Emmanuel Macron from a second round if he represented himself, to take his place”, and thus “everyone is playing the second round against Marine Le Pen”, he said. he analyzed, judging that "good political hygiene would be that the people who lose the elections withdraw and give way to a new generation".

"Do not interpret Darmanin's word as collusion" with Marine Le Pen, for his part defended Christophe Castaner on France Inter-franceinfo-

Le Monde

, saying he did not believe "for a second that Gerald Darmanin shares the convictions" of the president of the RN.

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