An analysis that does not go unnoticed. Viewed more than a million times in just a few hours this Sunday night, Jean-Pierre Raffarin’s tweet on the results of the by-elections in the Ariège on Sunday night was strongly criticized by several left-wing MPs.
“Legislative: It seems that an anti-Nupes republican front is being set up…”, the former prime minister wrote, while the Nupes/LFI Bénédicte Taurine was largely defeated by socialist dissident Martine Froger.
“Are you there? You must really be desperate to dare to say that the LFI, the PS, the EELV and the PC are not republicans,” replied rebel MP Aymeric Caron.
“You should use the expression ‘republican front’ more sparingly,” added his Génération.s colleague Benjamin Lucas.
“A rejection of extremism, left and right”
Jean-Pierre Raffarin, now a member of Horizons, Édouard Philippe’s party, was appointed Prime Minister by Jacques Chirac after the 2002 presidential elections, elections in which the expression “republican front” acquired its full meaning when 82% of The voters voted in favor of the outgoing President of the Republic and against Jean-Marie Le Pen, candidate of the National Front.
Since then, from year to year, the strategy of the “republican front”, which consists of the reunion (or withdrawal) of various parties in favor of those best positioned against the ultra-right, seems to decline. Especially when the UMP (Les Républicains) decided to elect the “ni-ni” (neither PS nor FN) during the 2015 departmental elections.
In 2022, the “collapse” of the “republican front” was one of the causes of the arrival in the National Assembly of 88 deputies from the National Group, a record since the beginning of the Fifth Republic.
In the afternoon, shortly before midnight, Jean-Pierre Raffarin tweeted againsaying that “the rejection of NUPES is very much a rejection of extremism, left and right.”
Source: BFM TV
