Gabriel Attal did not come to challenge his rival Horizons in his Norman stronghold. He let his supporters take care of it. Local leader of his party, Luc Lefèvre, 72, finds that “Philippe is not running a very good campaign”. “To know him, he lacks empathy, he’s not a trickster,” says this shirt-sleeved retiree, opposition municipal councilor in the neighboring town of Sainte-Adresse. Attal is a politician, he’s a campaigner.”
This Thursday evening, upstairs in the restaurant, fifteen participants responded to his call. Half of sympathizers; another half of curious people, students, teachers, business leaders... On the tables, the candidate's poster, crossed out with the slogan "The force to act", leaflets, beers and a Coca-Cola. When they understood that Gabriel Attal would be absent, "there were some who said: 'We're not coming anymore'", regrets Daniel Duchemin, his referent in Seine-Maritime, where some 200 members are claimed.
“Today, we consider that this is not the right idea, not the right path. No, we must not send soldiers to this area of the planet,” cried the vice-president of the National Assembly Sébastien Chenu, at the microphone of RMC, indicating that the RN was “very reserved” about sending French troops to secure the Yanbu site.
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On the set of BFMTV-RMC, the vice-president of the National Assembly and RN deputy for the North Sébastien Chenu judged that the President of the Republic had “wasted time” by refusing to lower taxes on fuel. Emmanuel Macron ultimately did not rule out the scenario yesterday during his interview with the 8 p.m. newspaper.
Conversely, praised Sébastien Chenu, Marine Le Pen “anticipated the anger of the French”. “Does this mean that Emmanuel Macron will decide to apply Marine Le Pen’s program?” he joked.
The former prime minister and president of the Ensemble pour la République group in the National Assembly strongly criticized, on RTL, the attitude of Marine Le Pen, who “acts as a proxy for the Kremlin regime since the start of this war”. The day before, the presidential candidate had reaffirmed that “we no longer have the means” to help Ukraine financially.
However, “supporting Ukraine is not a humanitarian operation to please oneself, it is in the immediate interest of the French,” insisted Gabriel Attal, who called for “seizing and using Russian assets”.
After the announcement by Emmanuel Macron, Thursday evening on TF1 and France 2, of the sending of “military means” to “protect” the Yanbu site, a strategic link in the network of energy installations in Saudi Arabia, the LFI presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, demanded a vote from Parliament.
The stakes are high: this Red Sea port allows oil to be exported without going through the Strait of Hormuz, while geopolitical tensions in the region have notably propelled fuel prices to record levels. “Troops in Saudi Arabia are setting up in a theater of war. If the base is hit, what will we do? No question of becoming belligerent. So the Assembly must vote on the subject. Article 35 of the Constitution,” wrote l’Insoumis on the social network X.
“I fight every day.” More than ever confined to his diplomatic prerogatives, Emmanuel Macron does not want to disappear from the film, while the presidential campaign takes its rights.
From the Russian threat to the consequences of the war in the Middle East, the head of state gave his views on geopolitical tensions on Thursday evening, during an interview on TF1 and France 2. And tried to show that he still had some room for maneuver to mitigate the consequences for the French.
If he assured that the authorities were doing “everything” to “avoid” fuel shortages, and that the supply of “diesel, gas, fuel oil” was guaranteed “by the end of the year”, he did not completely rule out problems at the start of 2027 “if the crisis were to worsen”. LFI presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon immediately demanded that Parliament be seized, under article 35 of the Constitution.
