Europeans 2024: in France, the Republicans in turn launch their campaign

The European campaign of François-Xavier Bellamy, the candidate of the Les Républicains party, is officially launched, after a large meeting in the Paris region this Saturday March 23. The list of the French conservative right is credited with 7 to 8% in the polls. This shows that LR is playing big in these elections on June 9.

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The head of the LR list for the European elections of June 2024, François-Xavier Bellamy, at a campaign launch meeting in Aubervilliers, this Saturday March 23. AFP - DIMITAR DILKOFF

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With our special correspondent in Aubervilliers,

Raphaël Devolvé

Caught between the National Rally on his right, and the Macronists on his left, François-Xavier Bellamy launches an appeal: “ 

We no longer want to suffer!

»

To find a place and not fall below the fateful 5% mark, the head of the list chooses to reactivate the right-left divide.

It's still the same story, RN against Lrem, Macron against Le Pen, and now the new updated version: Attal against Bardella. In the European Parliament, the real divide opposes the two major political forces which structure most of the world's great democracies, the right and the left.

Number two on the list, the farmer Céline Imart, takes aim at the Macronists: “ 

Emmanuel Macron

,

” she says,

“is the specialist in big words, in big debates, and he is also and above all the specialist in big smoking.

»

For his part, the president of the party,

Éric Ciotti

, launches an appeal to voters lost by the right since 2017: “ 

Come back to the Republican right,

” he says.

No matter what paths we take, we must come together for

France

!

»

The strategic choice is not to have too many meetings like five years ago. The rooms were full, like this Saturday in Aubervillier, but in the end, only 8% of the votes went to LR. Francois Xavier Bellamy's team says it mainly wants to concentrate on televised debates and field trips.

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