"When (...) we ensure that the totally exploded political landscape is a landscape in which there would be only one candidate who would be supposedly the candidate of a form of reason, and opposite the 'extreme right, we are playing with fire and indeed everything is possible", estimated Anne Hidalgo on LCI, while polls show that the gap in the second round between the voting intentions for Emmanuel Macron and the RN candidate Marine Le Pen is reduced.
Criticizing the "social brutality" of the outgoing president, Adrien Quatennens estimated on Public Senate that "these people participate in the progress of the far right in our country, by dint of breaking the social State, our model of social protection ".
"Who other than Mr. Macron has trivialized far-right ideas, in particular by placing laws in the National Assembly, security, discriminatory laws, such as the law on separatism", questioned the LFI deputy for his part. from Seine-Saint-Denis Eric Coquerel on Cnews.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon (c) and Adrien Quatennens (2nd d), spokesperson for candidate LFI, in Paris on March 30, 2022 Christophe ARCHAMBAULT AFP / Archives
The far-right candidates "Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen only have to bend down to develop their potential electorate", he estimated.
"Mr. Macron has major responsibilities in the climate he has installed in the country, so he would do better to make a self-criticism in relation to that", he insisted, judging that voting Mélenchon is "the best way "to combat both "the danger of the far right" and "the extreme liberalism of Mr. Macron".
While Marine Le Pen exceeded the threshold of 20% of voting intentions in some polls for the first round of April 10, Emmanuel Macron, given the lead at some 28%, attacked Thursday "the far-right tandem" Le Pen/Zemmour, regretting that their ideas are "trivialized" by "the media" and "republican political forces", but "never" by him.
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