“Our victory is only postponed”

Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella have reacted this Sunday to the results of the second round of the French legislative elections, which have come as a cold shower for their far-right party. After sweeping the first round and coming close to an absolute majority in the polls, the party National Grouping (RN) have become the third political force, with between 132 and 152 seats in the National Assembly, according to exit polls.

“This evening, these electoral agreements throw France into the arms of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s far left,” Bardella told his supporters, mentioning the leader of the New Popular Front, who is expected to win between 172 and 192 seats. “unnatural political alliances” They were trying to “prevent the French from freely choosing a different policy by all means,” he said. In this regard, he stressed that his party “is today achieving the most important advance in its entire history.”

Le Pen added that the RN only lost the election because of tactical voting between the NFP and Macron’s camp. “Our victory has only been postponed”he told TF1 television. Bardella has joined this argument, and has criticized the “electoral collusion orchestrated from the Elysée between an isolated president of the republic and a far left incendiary“which will not take the country anywhere,” he reports. Europa Press.

[Mélenchon exige el poder para volver a rebajar de inmediato la jubilación a los 60 años]

[Vuelco en Francia en la segunda vuelta: el Frente Popular y Macron superan a Le Pen, según los sondeos]

“Regrettably, the dishonorable alliance and dangerous electoral agreements reached this afternoon by Emmanuel Macron and [el primer ministro] Gabriel Attal with the far-left parties They deprive the French of a recovery policy “which, however, broadly supported the National Grouping,” he stressed. Bardella has assured that his party “embodies more than ever the only alternation” that faces the “single party.”

Bardella has particularly criticised Macron, who “has not only pushed the country into uncertainty and instability” but has also “deprived the French of any response to their daily difficulties for many months in the midst of a crisis of purchasing power. While insecurity and disorder hit the country hard, France is deprived of a majorityof a government that can act and, therefore, of a clear course to recover France,” he argued.

Bardella recalled the recent victory of the National Rally in the European elections and promised working in the European Parliament to find a response “to the migratory avalanche, to punitive ecology and the confiscation of our sovereignty.” “The recovery that will take France out of its routine, to all French women, to all French men, I want to tell you that my intention to work for the recovery of the country is stronger than ever. I will be there, for you, with you, until victory. Tonight it all begins“An old world has fallen and nothing can stop a people who have regained hope. Long live France and long live the Republic!” he added.