Legislative elections in France: The Republicans in turn embark on the battle
The president of the right-wing Les Républicains (LR) party, Christian Jacob, at the party's headquarters in Paris, on June 9, 2021 during a strategic committee ahead of the 2022 presidential election. AFP - GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT
Text by: Valérie Gas Follow
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Christian Jacob launched the legislative campaign for the right on Saturday.
The President of the Republicans announced an agreement with the partners of the UDI and the centrists to invest single candidates in 543 constituencies.
After the presidential slap, the Republicans hope to limit the damage to the legislative elections.
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Christian Jacob tries to believe it and does not want to suggest that the Republicans have given up fighting for the legislative elections.
“
We see today that nothing is settled.
There is a mobilization which is being organized everywhere in the constituencies, with a trap set by Emmanuel Macron
", that "
of playing with his two useful idiots, Marine Le Pen, and today Jean-Luc Mélenchon
" .
Jean-Luc Mélenchon
who succeeded in uniting the left around him for the legislative elections
.
No question of doing the same on the right, Christian Jacob reaffirms that no alliance is possible either with the National Rally or with Reconquest!, the party of Éric Zemmour.
He also attacks the socialists: “
It's really the marriage of the carp and the rabbit.
I admit that I do not understand this denial of the Republican Socialists who are now associated with communitarians.
»
As for the risk of seeing LR deputies in electoral danger joining Macronie, Christian Jacob is ironic after the investiture of Robin Réda, a member of the party, by the presidential majority: “
We were told about fifty, after we went to about thirty, after about ten, now or says between 5 and 7. And there, there is indeed one.
Maybe there will be two or three.
»
Nevertheless, to dissuade the temptations of double-dealing, the candidates invested by LR will have to sign a charter in which they undertake not to ally themselves with the majority.
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