In democracy, nothing is healthier than political change
Shameful Macron who, by calling for ‘blocs’ against the National Rally in the second round, behaves like any other Von der Leyen and tries in every way to oppose a change expressed by millions of French people, in Paris and in Brussels."
We need an absolute majority so that [RN leader] Jordan Bardella can be appointed prime minister in a week’s time."
Europe is waking up! Soon, it will be Portugal!"
Le Pen’s failure to seize power is likely to prove an existential crisis delayed, rather than avoided
It's impossible to govern in the kind of scenarios that we're looking at,
On these numbers, the far right will struggle to win a majority next Sunday, ... But France's new [National] Assembly is likely to be a raucous and close to ungovernable place."
It very much depends whether there will be some kind of coalition against the far right, or whether it will break up,
Next Sunday, if the French people award us an absolute majority to put the country back on its feet, I intend to be the prime minister of all the French people, listening to each and every one of them, respecting the opposition and mindful of national unity,
We can say with lucidity that the detoxification of the National Rally is reaching its final stages,
As the left has made Macron its big opponent, and Mélenchon and Macron have spent months fighting a huge political battle, it’s hard to resuscitate the cordon sanitaire,
Without a clear majority, there will always be old feudalisms, wilful inertia and political maneuvering that will wreck the true alternative that the country needs,
They won the European election three times in a row and Marine Le Pen twice got through to the second round of the presidential election; if they win France’s second-most-important election [the parliamentary election], they’ve become mainstream,
Faced with the National Rally, the time has come for a large, clearly democratic and Republican rally for the second round.
He has no grassroots network... the people around him are the same, they don't express the mood of the times,
We have seven days to spare France from catastrophe,
Nothing is won and the second round is decisive,
The French people have shown without ambiguity their willingness to turn the page after seven years of corrosive power,
The time has come to give power to leaders who understand you, who care about you,
The extreme right is at the doors of power,