“Faced with the increasingly offensive RN, the presidential camp appears more vulnerable than five years ago” | EUROtoday

Lhe political scene typically lends itself to attention-grabbing comparisons. One day aside, two personalities who’ve in widespread a strong philosophical coaching, a European expertise that they worth and the troublesome activity of defending the colours of political households in nice issue occupied the entrance of the stage. Saturday March 23, on the Docks de Paris, in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis), François-Xavier Bellamy inaugurated the primary marketing campaign assembly of the Les Républicains (LR) occasion in view of the European elections on June 9. Sunday March 24, in Tournefeuille (Haute-Garonne), Raphaël Glucksmann, the chief of Place publique, held his first public rally within the firm of the socialists, whose colours he’s liable for defending for the second time in a row.

The tide of blue-white-red flags waved on Saturday was responded to the following day by a forest of pink and yellow requirements. The left-right divide that each camps are working laborious to reactivate has visually imposed itself with out succeeding in erasing the distinction in tone between the 2 actors. Defensive on one facet, conquering on the opposite. ” Be free “ was the leitmotif of François-Xavier Bellamy who, in an try and loosen the vice wherein Renaissance and the National Rally (RN) are gripped, desires to be the promoter of a “peaceful right that assumes responsibility”. Put it within the urn “newsletter of hope” was the credo of Raphaël Glucksmann, who assigned to every activist the mission of making the circumstances for“to be the surprise of June 9”.

Such a discrepancy could also be stunning, as a result of, on paper, the Republican proper and the social democratic left begin with the identical handicap. Since 2017, they’ve been the 2 main victims of the slap within the face administered to the previous authorities events by Emmanuel Macron. Although LR and the Socialist Party (PS) have resisted “at the same time” by all means, they’ve to date failed to flee the lure. Not solely did their declare to show the tide in the course of the 2022 presidential election finish in a convincing failure (4.78% of the votes solid for the LR candidate, Valérie Pécresse; 1.75% for the PS candidate, Anne Hidalgo) , however the extremes have continued to eat away at them, a lot in order that the configuration of the European marketing campaign resembles that of 2019: a match dominated by the confrontation between the RN and the presidential camp, organized as such by the 2 protagonists to leaving solely a paltry area for different political teams.

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