After a duel in spotted foil last weekend, Jordan Bardella and Marion Maréchal raise their voices. Both leaders of their movement’s list for the European elections, these two figures from the Reconquista and the National Group want to pressure the other to withdraw their candidacy.
“If today Jordan Bardella is willing to work and sit at the table with people from LR like François-Xavier Bellamy”, “I want to say ‘let’s go'”, Marion Maréchal launched this Tuesday on France 2, ensuring that his “door was open” .
Bardella’s call to come “help the patriots”
Before also mentioning among the list of elected officials to be associated with the LR European deputy Nadine Morano or even Julien Aubert, former constituency neighbor of the former Vaucluse deputy.
Jordan Bardella’s response was quick.
“Should Éric Zemmour and Marion Maréchal, instead of competing against us, come to help the patriots win the next elections?” the head of the RN launched on RTL a few minutes later.
Marion Maréchal’s bet
The MEP, who has many points in common with Marion Maréchal, from her youth to her admiration for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, once again considered her competitor’s candidacy “totally counterproductive.”
The two candidates cannot compete in the same category: a survey IFOP for Sunday newspaper Thus, he grants 25% to Jordan Bardella compared to 6.5% to Marion Maréchal: their campaigns can harm each other.
If Marine Le Pen’s niece fails to overcome the 5% threshold and thus enter the European Parliament, her political destiny will seem very compromised. Former deputy RN has also deteriorated greatly in recent years.
Esperanza François-Xavier Bellamy
After choosing not to run in the 2017 legislative elections, Marion Maréchal inaugurated a school that It never really took off. and today it is in a chaotic financial situation.
Suffice it to say that it plays an important role in these elections, as does Reconquête, which only has two European deputies as elective representatives, elected under the RN label before joining Éric Zemmour. Enough for the thirty-year-old to have hope that François-Xavier Bellamy, probable head of the right-wing list, can join her to gain political weight.
On the part of Jordan Bardella, who intends to make these elections a launching pad towards the Elysée for Marine Le Pen, it is not about losing some precious points to Reconquête. His goal is to get ahead of the presidential majority on the night of the European election results.
Very hypothetical application withdrawals
This remote confrontation, however, has the appearance of lying poker. In both RN and Reconquête, no one believes that LR can join Éric Zemmour today. Regarding the maintenance of Marion Maréchal’s candidacy, there are no doubts.
In the ranks of Reconquête, many expect a pleasant surprise with the hope of exceeding 10%, guaranteeing the entry of a dozen elected officials into the European Parliament.
On the RN side, let’s wrap the muscles. “We are going to make these elections an anti-Macron referendum. We do not box in the same category. They are featherweights. We are heavyweights. We have nothing to do with each other,” he explained last Friday to BFMTV.com RN deputy Julien Odoul.
Source: BFM TV
