French President Emmanuel Macron is placing increasing stakes in the election starting on June 30, who recently accused the left-wing New People's Front, which performed better than his alliance in the polls, and the right-wing National Compaction, that their coming to power could lead to civil war. Meanwhile, the Macrons are not doing too well.
French President Emmanuel Macron gave an interview to the Génération Do It Yourself During the conversation, the head of state discussed, among other things, that, in his opinion, the far-left New People's Front and the far-right National Compact could incite a civil war in France.
The French president, whose party is only in third place ahead of snap parliamentary elections starting on June 30, says the far-right National Compact's (RN) plans on crime and immigration are based on stigmatization or division.
I believe that the solutions given by the far right are out of the question because they categorize people according to their religion or origin and therefore lead to division and civil war
Macron expressed his opinion, according to the British The Guardian .
At the same time, he criticized not only the National Compaction characterized by Marine Le Pen and led by Jordan Bardella, but also the New People's Front (NFP), made up of several parties, from the extreme left to the center left, which he also accused of polarization and dividing society.
According to Macron, the left-wing alliance, with the support of the minorities, is tearing the minorities away from the unity of the nation, which, according to him, could also lead to civil war, as he believes that they would reject those who do not agree with them.
By the way, this was not the first time that during the current campaign, the French president equated the extreme left and the extreme right with some argument, and then offered the alliance supporting him, the Ensamble! (meaning: Together) coalition, as an alternative. Last weekend, he spoke about the fact that the French should not vote for extremists, only for the moderates, which is a coalition of liberal forces ranging from the center to the center-right.
The Macrons are not doing well so far
After his defeat in the European Parliament elections on June 9, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he would dissolve the parliament and call early elections, as he believed that the political reorganization could not be ignored - while the party coalition with Macron's party, Renaissance 14.6 percent of the electorate voted, while more than double the number, 31.37 percent, voted for the National Compact led by Bardella.
As we have analyzed, Macron is trying to run forward with this in order to gather and get behind him the political center shocked by the victory of NR, however, one of his biggest problems is that neither he nor his party is popular enough.
AT THE SAME TIME, THE PRESIDENT HAS SO FAR NOT SUCCEEDED IN GETTING THE POLITICAL CENTER BEHIND HIMSELF, IN ADDITION, support for the National Consolidation and the New People's Front is still growing.
While the far-left and left-wing parties came together - which immediately made them the second largest political force - Macron's Renaissance failed to bring together an alliance from the center-left to the center-right, as only a part of the center-right republicans managed to come to an agreement after the party split for the current election between Macron and between Le Pen.
The election campaign officially began on June 17, and according to the latest opinion poll, 36 percent of the electorate would vote for Marine Le Pen's signature National Consolidation, which is followed by the far-left to center-left New People's Front with 29.5 percentage points, followed by Macron's kind of Ensamble with 20.5 percentage points.
Thus, after the elections held on June 30 and July 7, it is most likely that the so-called a joint pass is possible: while the president is given by the Renaissance party in the person of Emmanuel Macron, the prime minister will probably be the leader of the National Compaction, Jordan Bardella, if nothing drastic happens in the rest of the campaign.
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