Bordeaux (AFP)
"Everything must be done so that the RN does not manage to manage regions", underlined Prime Minister Jean Castex on Friday in Bordeaux, during a trip to support the minister and majority candidate in New Aquitaine Geneviève Darrieussecq.
"All my political life, my personal life, has been oriented towards values which have nothing in common with those of the National Rally. I think above all that the National Rally cannot provide solutions," insisted the head of government two days before the first round of regional and departmental.
“I who have been for so long a mayor in the field, a mayor of the provinces, I know that there is a lot of suffering, a lot of despair, but in the face of that, there are false solutions, bad solutions. us, our role in this campaign is to provide good solutions ", insisted Jean Castex.
The Prime Minister did not specify his position concerning the Republican front and the possible withdrawals between two rounds to block the National Rally.
"There, we are in the first round, in the first round, we choose. We must choose the most dynamic lists, the lists that want to move forward, this is the case with the list led here by Geneviève Darrieussecq", Minister for Veterans Affairs, continued Jean Castex.
In New Aquitaine, the outgoing Alain Rousset (PS), who is seeking a fifth term, is neck and neck in the first round with the RN list of Edwige Diaz.
The centrist Geneviève Darrieussecq, who wears the colors of the presidential majority, is on course to qualify for the second round, like the former LR mayor of Bordeaux Nicolas Florian.
In this region, the left is divided with the EELV-Génération.s list led by Nicolas Thierry and the LFI-NPA by Clémence Guetté.
While abstention could reach records, the Prime Minister also called for "to vote on Sunday, it is very important".
"The country is restarting, there is no reason that democracy should not restart too. Voting is a right that our elders have won, I tend to say that it has become a duty", insisted Jean Castex.
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