Jordan Bardella in Paris, March 21, 2023. THOMAS SAMSON/AFP
COUNTERPOINT – In a European election, more than in any other, the transfers of votes are late and spectacular.
Barely named head of the Reconquest list! in the European elections, Marion Maréchal said she was ready to sit around the same table with Jordan Bardella and François-Xavier Bellamy, his certain competitor on the RN side, probable on the LR side. Nearly nine months before the election and while the entire poster is not yet known, this offer of dialogue is both early and dangerous. Doesn’t the Zemmourist list first need to establish and justify its existence before evoking – even in a hypothetical and skeptical manner – a recomposition?
To tell the truth, no one at Reconquête!, nor at LR, nor at the RN believes in a “union of the rights” through partisan apparatuses. Neither wants it. The Republicans are wary of a kiss of death which would dissuade the return of right-wing voters who have now gone to Macron. And Marine Le Pen, for reasons as sociological as tactical doesn’t want to lock himself away within the borders of a camp whose reality – it is its…
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