"I am perfectly ready to open our list in the European elections, like our list in the municipal elections, to sincere patriots who would come from LR and who want with us to defend the French social model and protect our civilization which is now called into question," the MEP said on France 3.
Will he head the list as in 2019? "It is not decided but I will be very involved in this battle (of the Europeans) because I think it will be the +midterms +, it will be the justice of the peace of the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron," he said.
Assuring that his "only compass is the interest of the French", but that it "is not a question of uniting the right", Mr. Bardella confirmed his invitation to "people of LR who are sincere patriots, lovers of France" to "come and work" with the RN, after announcing that, in case of dissolution, his party would not oppose candidates to LR deputies who voted the censure of the government to block the reform of the Retreats.
"I want to say to all lovers of France, whether they come from left to right but also to the voters of Reconquest that we are perhaps today the best advocate of their ideas, so come with us, we are creating today the most formidable alternation," he added.
On the other hand, the president of the RN does not "believe that Eric Zemmour has the ambition to continue politics" and does not want to "take back" "people (of Reconquest) who left us six months ago saying the harshest insults to the National Rally", "because we have a moral, because we are respectful of the voters".
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