Three weeks of blitzkrieg campaigning began before the first round of legislative elections on June 30 and then the second on July 7. Have you not followed all the developments since the dissolution of the National Assembly by Emmanuel Macron? We summarize the main events of Thursday June 20
The number of the day
22%
An Ifop-Fiducial survey for LCI, Le Figaro and Sud Radio, which measures voting intentions for the first time since all the candidates have been known, will give a little balm to the heart of the presidential camp. If the RN-LR alliance and the left alliance remain stable (34 and 29%), the Macronist camp is catching up a little with 22% of potential voters, i.e. 4 points more than in the last poll published Monday .
Sentence of the day
“ “I think Eric Ciotti is the world champion of secret alliances” »
Traveling in Hauts-de-Seine, Edouard Philippe drew his best punchline to qualify Eric Ciotti’s decision to come and swell the ranks of the RN against the advice of his party.
“I think that Eric Ciotti is the world champion of secret alliances and that he has designed something which even in the world of secret alliances is inconceivable,” said former Prime Minister Mr. Philippe, in the oven and mill after having presented his vision of tomorrow’s economy to Medef in the morning.
Today’s trend
A big oral in front of the big bosses. All the party leaders or specialists in economic issues went to defend their program in front of a large audience made up of employers’ organizations such as the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME), the Union of Local Enterprises (U2P), or the Movement of mid-sized companies (Meti), in addition to Medef.
The New Popular Front, attacked from all sides for its “unrealizable” proposals, distinguished itself by directly addressing “the billionaires in the room” through the socialist Boris Valaud: “You can raise your hands, billionaires and I I will apologize to you for the effort I am asking of you for solidarity and economic patriotism.” However, it was later that he was booed, when he made the distinction between “those who produce wealth in this country and those who look above all at stock market prices”.
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This high mass was the opportunity for Jordan Bardella and Eric Ciotti to appear side by side for the first time since the announcement of their alliance. The president of the RN avoided all angry subjects and put most of the major reforms promised in 2022 under the carpet, sheltering behind the desire to carry out an “audit of the nation’s accounts” before making major decisions and harvesting benefits. polite applause.
Nothing to do, however, with the enthusiasm of the audience during the visit of Bruno Le Maire, who promised “fiscal stability” and the recovery of the country’s accounts begun, he said in 2018, before the unfortunate parenthesis of Covid. The Minister of the Economy nevertheless concluded in the form of a warning to his possible successors: “France’s budgetary room for maneuver is zero”.