POLITICS – The match within the match. On the sidelines of the agricultural crisis, and while the 2024 International Agricultural Show will open on Saturday in Paris, Gabriel Attal held a press conference this Wednesday, February 21 to make a “ waypoint » projects opened by the executive to respond to peasant anger.
But the sequence is also an opportunity for the Prime Minister to deceive the National Rally (which is riding the crisis), and Marine Le Pen in particular. On the eve of his press conference, in Le Figaro, the head of government had invited the president of the RN group in the Assembly to discuss agriculture. An outstretched hand immediately rejected by the MP for Pas-de-Calais, who referred the Prime Minister to Jordan Bardella, president of the RN and head of the list of the Lepéniste party in the European elections.
“ She is scared »
After his speech this Wednesday, Gabriel Attal was questioned about this refusal, as you can see in our video at the top of the article. A refusal that the Prime Minister explains by “ fear » and the lack of “ consistency » from the leader of the RN on the subject of agriculture. “ You have the National Rally which says everything and its opposite. In 2019, in the European Parliament, the RN voted against the CAP. In 2021, in the European Parliament, the Rally votes for the CAP. Today in 2024, they are back against the CAP », mocked Gabriel Attal, before emphasizing that the Lepéniste party had not supported the recognition of agriculture as a profession in tension to facilitate the employment of foreign seasonal workers during the immigration law.
“ They say they support our farmers, but they weren’t there to vote for crop insurance. Madame Le Pen was not even in the hemicycle to vote for the Egalim law, which constitutes progress, even if it must be improved, for our farmers », insisted Gabriel Attal, justifying his preference for a debate with Marine Le Pen by protocol considerations. “ I have never had a problem in the past debating with Jordan Bardella », argued the Prime Minister, who considers that it is not his role to debate with a personality who is “ head of the European list and president of his party “.
Unlike Marine Le Pen who is “ president of the first opposition group in Parliament “. And therefore, according to Gabriel Attal, justified in confronting, if she wishes, the head of government. And the Prime Minister drives the point home: “ But again, I think she’s not very comfortable on the bottom compared to all her foot changes. She is afraid that it will be seen and she refuses the debate, which I regret. »
For his part, Jordan Bardella explained the same morning that he was, on the contrary, the opponent best suited to the situation. “ You have to be consistent. Gabriel Attal was named after the words of Macronie as an anti-Bardella weapon for the European elections. So Gabriel Attal must come and debate with me », justified on Europe 1 the president of the RN. Before adding: “ Marine Le Pen has been a candidate in the presidential election three times, twice in the second round of the presidential election, and perhaps a third time in the second round of the next presidential election. Consequently, Marine Le Pen debates with the President of the Republic. »
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