Marine Le Pen sets a new condition for holding a debate with Emmanuel Macron before the European elections. It is hard to imagine the head of state complying with it.
Does Marine Le Pen want a debate with Emmanuel Macron before the European elections? If the former president of the National Rally officially refuses to step aside, the new conditions she sets for the confrontation make it more than improbable. For several weeks, the Head of State’s entourage has said it is considering a Macron-Le Pen face-to-face meeting to relaunch the Macronist list campaign. But even before receiving her invitation, the former presidential candidate engaged in clever blackmail.
“Yes, but…” Here is the RN’s strategy. First, Marine Le Pen had judged a confrontation “very useful”, before postponing it until September. A few days later, Jordan Bardella validated the idea of ??a debate before June 9, but on condition of debating “a little more widely than on European questions”. Thursday evening, the RN MP set a final condition, which should ultimately discourage the President of the Republic.
“If he puts his resignation or the dissolution of the National Assembly on the table, I will debate with pleasure”, launched Marine Le Pen on the set of France 2. The former boss of the RN justified her asks: “When we are President of the Republic and we are supposed to be above the parties, we either enter into the partisan debate or we do not enter into it. If we enter into it, then at that moment , we must draw the consequences if we lose the elections.”
Marine Le Pen knows what she is doing: her party is given the arch-favorite for this European election, far ahead of Valérie Hayer’s Macronist list. It is therefore highly unlikely that Emmanuel Macron will comply with his blackmail, at the risk of having to resign or dissolve the Assembly on the evening of June 9. The MP seems to have found the perfect strategy to avoid a duel that could cost her dearly, while leaving it to her opponent to forfeit.