Emmanuel Macron assaults the RN, the “party of lies”, to launch the European elections | EUROtoday

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Emmanuel Macron, during his press conference, at the Elysée, in Paris, January 16, 2024.

Emmanuel Macron has not but revealed the id of the top of his group’s listing within the European elections. But the top of state took benefit of his press convention on January 16 on the Elysée to stipulate his highway map. His most important opponent on June 9 has lengthy been recognized, prancing far forward within the polls: Jordan Bardella and the National Rally (RN). It stays for Emmanuel Macron and his representatives to keep away from, if not a defeat, a file setback over the past nationwide election of his presidency.

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Emmanuel Macron careworn that “the Europe of the National Rally is not the one which (…) will make it possible to have vaccines », in reference to resilience in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. Likewise, it is “because there was Europe” that economies have been supported by a European restoration plan. “Today we can weigh in against China and the United States of America because there is a Europe that carries our values”he added, defending, in opposition to Jordan Bardella’s celebration, a “central bloc which brings together democrats, republicans, environmentalists, who believe in Europe”.

“I will fight until the last quarter of an hour” in opposition to the far proper, he repeated, preferring to not dwell on the speculation of a switch of energy to Marine Le Pen in 2027, which he referred to the “political fiction”.

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To cease the dynamics of the RN, Emmanuel Macron warned in opposition to the temptation of “moral lessons”these “postures” which had already earned, in May 2023, a extreme refocusing on the previous Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, responsible of getting recalled the origins of the National Front, “heir of Pétain”.

“Party of Transformism”

The tenant of the Elysée fairly claims the” efficiency “ and the ” common sense ” to resolve the disaster in public companies and scale back the sensation of “dispossession” which he associates with this “France of the blind spot”, “of “this is not for me””.

It additionally encourages us to deal with the“inconsistency” of a undertaking that, on Tuesday, he a number of occasions assimilated to that of the” leftmost “, a manner of mocking its versatility and financial credibility. Even if it means rewriting sure guarantees from Marine Le Pen to criticize the “party of collective impoverishment”. “This is the party that explains to you that we must increase the minimum wage, without explaining how that will not deindustrialize the country”he warned, whereas his opponent proposed, in 2022, to exempt a ten% improve on the pay slip from employer contributions.

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