The tenors of Macronie do not have words strong enough to criticize the economic program of Nupes.
The arguments are sometimes outrageous, but not very new.
The left has always been judged on its credibility before the elections in which it took or threatened to take power.
In the background on the left, we find it rather positive to be at the center of attention, even if it could wake up the electorate on the right.
The barrage of the presidential majority surprised by its strength, perhaps even more by your dramatic side.
Faced with the dynamics of the Nupes (New Popular Ecological and Social Union) formed by the left, Together (the Macronist coalition) went very hard on the criticisms.
“We are going to ban you from cutting down trees in your home,” Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday.
“I read the Nupes program.
They quote 20 times the word “taxation” and 30 times the word “prohibition”, “explained the same in an interview on Saturday.
“Requisition of agricultural stocks, soon ration books… La Nupes is all the clichés of the Soviet world”, added Christophe Castaner.
Don't throw any more.
Faced with these sometimes outrageous statements, at Nupes we remain very zen.
"These attacks demonstrate a great excitement of the presidential majority who wanted to step over the legislative as it did for the presidential," said Benjamin Lucas, candidate for the union of the left in Mantes-la-Jolie.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the Insoumis are even satisfied to be at the center of the debate with their economic proposals.
"We have succeeded in sparking debate in the face of Macronie's avoidance strategy", rejoiced Aurélie Trouvé, president of the Nupes parliament, during a press conference of economists who support the project of the left.
The majority persists and signs
Not missed: the press looked at the statements of the tenors of Macronie to show that they often had no basis.
A column of 170 economists (including Thomas Piketty, Julia Cagé and Gabriel Zucman) who support the Nupes project was even published on Thursday in
the Sunday Journal
.
The majority assumes however.
And Emmanuel Macron himself returned to the charge Thursday in a speech in the Tarn.
“It is our duty to denounce the Nupes program.
By simply inviting everyone to read it: it means more taxes, more charges, working less to redistribute wealth that we will not produce, judge Maud Bregeon, candidate for Antony (Hauts-de-Seine), The choice is not between two political nuances, but between two different destinies for the country.
Yet attacks on the credibility, on the legitimacy of the left, are nothing new.
“At the edge of power, the lefts have often generated mistrust from their opponents, from the right and from economic circles in general.
This argument of economic incompetence is recurrent”, recalls the historian Jean Garrigues.
Not very new
The best-known episode: between the two rounds of the 1981 presidential election, where the Giscardian campaign was almost limited to this strategy of fear.
This is the famous anguish of the arrival of Soviet tanks in Paris.
In 1997, the right mocked the plural Left by agitating the fear of finding communist ministers.
In 2012, the President of the National Assembly, Bernard Accoyer, predicted a victory for François Hollande “consequences comparable to a war”, nothing less.
Strategies each time without success.
Benjamin Lucas does not imagine that the attempt to discredit this year will be a winner.
In any case, on the ground, he does not see the effects: “I rather believe that it mobilizes ours, it shows that the left was right to unite.
Don't take people for idiots.
“For the former socialist, now at Generations, this strategy will only have an effect” in the primary on the right between LREM and LR, it is not our business.
We are not going to change the minds of the LRs or the LREMs, we must seek out the abstainers ”.
Admittedly, the discrediting of the left is undoubtedly less intended to change the minds of potential voters of the Nupes than to wake up the right-wing electorate.
And this is a problem for the left.
Even if it were to come out on top on the evening of the first lap, perhaps even ahead of the game, it would probably be totally exposed for the second lap.
Under the threat of a massive postponement of right-wing votes on the candidates Together, on June 19.
A postponement absolutely necessary if Emmanuel Macron wants to have an absolute majority in the National Assembly.
In this context, the problem of the Nupes is less the question of the fear inspired by its program than the strength, at least on paper, of all the opposition on its right.
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