Marion Maréchal does not want to dig up the hatchet against her former party. The head of the Zemmourist list for the European elections on Saturday called on his competitor RN Jordan Bardella not to “have the wrong enemy”, also saying he “aspires” to “build” a “coalition” to come to power.
“Don’t make a mistake with the enemy, let’s not make a mistake with the enemy in this European election,” urged, in a video published on X, the former FN deputy (now RN), now leader of the Reconquest party .
Marion Maréchal calls for instead criticizing “the left and the Macronists”
“I think that you constantly hear on the ground, on social networks, our respective voters calling on us not to hit each other and to concentrate our opposition and our energy against our common adversaries who are in particular the left and the Macronists” , continued Marion Maréchal.
The one who collects 6.5% of voting intentions in an Ipsos poll published on Saturday evening – within the margin of error of the 5% threshold for entering the European Parliament – believes that “the objective of RN voters is not is not to prevent Marion Maréchal or Reconquest from arriving at the European Parliament.
“You should hope more that I am elected rather than Valérie Hayer of the Macronists or Marie Toussaint of the ecologists or Manon Aubry of LFI,” she said to the one who is in the lead with 32%. voting intentions. “In any case, I would prefer it to be you who were elected rather than these adversaries of France and the French,” she added.
Marine Le Pen’s niece also observed that “no party in France has ever come to power alone and has never governed alone, it has always been done within the framework of coalitions”. “You should be happy that there is a political force on the right that aspires to build this coalition,” she told him again.
Bellamy attacks “the absolute imposture of the RN”
Marion Maréchal criticizes Jordan Bardella in particular for having asserted that the MEP Reconquest! Nicolas Bay and LR MEPs voted this week for a measure “which prohibits the prior refoulement of migrants”. The text in question, called “filtering” and which is part of the “Immigration Pact” adopted Wednesday in the Strasbourg hemicycle, “does not prevent migrants from being pushed back since they do not enter European soil”, he said. Nicolas Bay sharply responded on X.
The head of the LR list for the Europeans, the outgoing François-Xavier Bellamy, for his part denounced an “attack” which “reveals” according to him “the absolute imposture of the RN”, in an interview with La Tribune Sunday. “The RN itself voted in favor of this text in committee a month ago! Its content has not changed since…”, he observed, while RN MEPs voted against on Wednesday. “Jordan Bardella is therefore only denying himself, once again, illustrating the total inconsistency of his party, including on migration issues,” the LR leader once again tackled.