After the dying of Quentin Deranque, the Macronists make the electoral guess of “neither LFI nor RN” | EUROtoday

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The Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, responds to the president of the LFI group during the question session to the government, at the National Assembly, in Paris, February 17, 2026.

The presidential battle divides them, their rejection of La France insoumise (LFI) might convey them collectively. The dying of Quentin Deranque, 23, a far-right activist lynched in Lyon on Thursday, February 12, by people suspected of belonging to the small anti-fascist group the Young Guard, near LFI, generated unanimous condemnation from elected officers from Renaissance, MoDem and Horizons. The events of the central bloc query the duty of the “rebellious” motion and its chief, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, accusing them of sustaining, by way of their confrontational rhetoric, a local weather conducive to political violence.

“The refusal of bodily violence in addition to verbal violence applies to everybody, always, in every single place. Perhaps that is what separates us.”, thundered, Tuesday February 17, the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, at the National Assembly. The tenant of Matignon asked LFI to “do the housework” in his « about, [ses] ideas, and especially in [ses] ranks”. Three relatives of LFI deputy Raphaël Arnault (Vaucluse), co-founder of the Young Guard, were arrested.

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