Paris (AFP)

"Wherever there is a proven risk that a region could be led tomorrow by the extreme right, we will take our responsibilities", declared the general delegate of En Marche !, Stanislas Guerini interviewed on RTL on Sunday evening of the first round of regional elections.

"I will call everywhere to reach out to other political parties to effectively build a Republican front of membership to beat the extreme right" he said, while several LREM candidates cannot stay in the second round, d 'after the first estimates.

"We are not able today to win regions", noted the president of the LREM group to the National Assembly Christophe Castaner on France 2.

"We have always been very clear on the fact that we would always block the National Rally and that we would do everything to prevent the extreme right from taking the lead of a region", abounded, on the same plateau, the government spokesperson Gabriel Attal.

The heads of the lists and their running mate "will announce in each region their choices and their calls for votes when this is the case," he said.

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