Eric Dupond-Moretti, Minister of Justice, May 7, 2021 in Rouen. – : Maxime Le Pihif / SIPA
A new minister launches into the regional campaign. After Marlène Schiappa, candidate in Ile-de-France, it is the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, who announced this Friday at the Northern voice his candidacy on the LREM list for regional in Hauts-de-France, but without taking the lead, as he had been expected.
“I will be in the first row in the Pas-de-Calais on Laurent Pietraszewsksi’s list (…) because I do not want this land to slip into the hands of the RN”, affirms the Keeper of the Seals, while the LREM list is lagging behind according to the polls against the favorite ex-LR Xavier Bertrand, followed by the RN Sébastien Chenu.
“Drive the National Rally out of this land”
“Madame le Pen refuses to argue with me. She doesn’t want to come to me, so I come to her, ”insists the minister,“ unlike Mr. Bertrand, I don’t want to hunt on the grounds of the National Rally. I want to drive the National Rally out of this land ”.
He also attacks the current boss of the Region on his presidential ambitions, accusing him of taking “Hauts-de-France as the draft of his presidential ambition”. “This election can not be a stepping stone, it is making fun of the voters that”, he judges.
No resignation from the government
I am fully Minister of Justice and I will be fully engaged in this campaign (…) that no one comes to criticize me on this. a priori “, Professes this native of Maubeuge, former tenor of the Lille bar, excluding resigning.
“Eric Dupond-Moretti is committed to a territory that is dear to him to embody, with us, the republican rampart in the face of extremes “, Greeted in a press release this Friday Laurent Pietraszewsksi, head of the regional list for LREM, also a member of the government (Secretary of State in charge of pensions and occupational health).
For the RN, it is “a sign of panic” on the part of LREM
This arrival, in a department where Marine Le Pen will be a candidate for the departmental, testifies that “LREM considers that tomorrow, the RN can chair the region”, responded Sébastien Chenu. “It is a provocation vis-à-vis the RN, it is the most hostile personality to the RN,” he adds.
“We are impatient to face it (…) it is a sign of panic on the part of En Marche which is doing everything to pass the 10% mark”, for its part reacted in the entourage of Xavier Bertrand the LR deputy of Pas-de-Calais, Pierre-Henri Dumont.
A government source confirmed on Wednesday that discussions were underway within the majority and the government for the entry into the battle of this government heavyweight, including to lead the list.