Ophélie Artaud 9:07 a.m., March 9, 2024

This Saturday, Renaissance launches its campaign for the European elections, with a first meeting of Valérie Hayer.

But the head of the presidential party list remains far behind Jordan Bardella in voting intentions.

Guest of Europe 1, Prisca Thévenot tackled the head of the RN list, considering that "we need a powerful person in the European Parliament and not an absent person".

This Saturday, the presidential majority enters the campaign for the European elections.

Valérie Hayer, head of the Renew group list, is organizing her first meeting in Lille.

For the moment, the MEP is ten points behind the National Rally.

But for Prisca Thévenot, government spokesperson and Minister Delegate in charge of Democratic Renewal, "we need a powerful person in the European Parliament and not someone who is absent."

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Invited from Europe 1 weekend morning, Prisca Thévenot tackled the head of the RN list.

“We have Jordan Bardella who takes pleasure in saying with a broad smile that he does not like to sit, that his role is not to sit,” criticizes the government spokesperson.

“Opposite, we have the majority candidate, Valérie Hayer, who not only sits, but sits to work and defend the daily lives of the French,” she assures.

“We need to be a coordinated and coherent political force on the national and European sides

If the European elections have difficulty mobilizing the French to the polls (in 2019, the participation rate was 50.1%), according to Prisca Thévenot, it is necessary "today more than ever to explain what Europe allows in the daily lives of the French. Often, it seems vague, but in reality, it is very concrete in the daily lives of the French, particularly through the France Relance plan.

Taking the example of energy, where "at the national level, we have put in place price shields to immediately protect the French. And at the European level, we have initiated in-depth work on the reform of the energy market. "European electricity", Prisca Thévenot assures that "what is important is a French power which is able to have both national and European representatives who work and do it in a coordinated manner. We need to be today a coordinated and coherent political force on both national and European sides, she concluded at the microphone of Europe 1.