After the excellent results obtained in the European elections, the continental right they meet to present a common front at the European Parliament and Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen take advantage of this for a face-to-face meeting aimed at consolidating their European alliance. The goal is to build a united right front and give the Ursula majority a push with the shoulder. Whether it is a single group with Ecr or not is secondary at the moment. Also because the hypothesis for now does not excite either the Conservatives or the Brothers of Italy.
The Le Pen-Salvini pact
The summit of the right was preceded by a two-way meeting between Salvini and Le Pen. The two leaders, League sources explain, have signed a sort of pact, built on three pillars: "Unity of the centre-right, no opening to majorities with the left, determination to change Europe". “European citizens have expressed themselves with great clarity. Only Macron and Von der Leyen didn't notice it,” Salvini said on the sidelines of the conversation.
Shortly afterwards, in the extended summit, the score has not changed: it must unite against a possible encore by Ursula von der Leyen. There was no shortage of teasing towards Emmanuel Macron either and, in a video published by one of the participants, we hear "Thank you Macron, an excellent opponent".
In addition to Salvini and Le Pen, present at the summit were the Dutch Geert Wilders, winner of the last elections in Holland but second in the European elections behind Timmermans' party, the Czech Tomio Okamura, the MEP of the Austrians of FPO Harald Vilimsky.
Political chaos in France: Macron's appeal to Glucksmann
In the meantime, continue the political earthquake in France in view of the early elections on June 30th. During the press conference on 12 June, the President of the Republic launched an appeal to the entourage of Raphael Glucksmann to say "no to extremism" during the vote at the end of the month and he also said he was ready to "in particular integrate the proposals of the Social Democrats"
Macron called for a “fundamental clarification” from the socialist camp on its alliance with LFI, given that the two parties have demonstrated “for months that they are not the same thing” during the European election campaign. An answer that is interpreted as “an outstretched hand” of the majority to the voters of Raphael Glucksmann. Responding to a question about a possible voting instruction in the event of a duel between the “Popular Front” formed by the left-wing parties and the Rassemblement National in the run-off, Emmanuel Macron said: “How can voters who, for example, followed Glucksmann in the European elections, support an alliance that assigns 300 constituencies to France insoumise?”, asked the head of state. It is certainly not a coincidence that Glucksmann rejected the hypothesis of a Popular Front: it is the main news of the last few hours in France.
Le Pen's niece expelled from her party
Eric Zemmour, leader of the far-right Reconquête party announced a BFM TV the expulsion of Marion Maréchal, who yesterday invited people to vote for the Rassemblement National - the party of her aunt Marine Le Pen in which she played before moving on to Reconquête - in the alliance with the Républicains.
“She is the one who excluded herself from the party – said Zemmour – I am disgusted and hurt. People are not necessarily interested in the internal life of political parties. But his is a world record of betrayal".
On Wednesday Maréchal went to the headquarters of the Rassemblement National with the aim of signing an alliance ahead of the vote. However, it was the president of the party, Jordan Bardella, who interrupted the negotiations. “To build an alliance and a majority, trust is necessary” explained Bardella. “The positions taken by Zemmour throughout the European campaign, the invectives he used have nullified the conditions for an agreement”. Indigestible words for Zemmour who decided to present Reconquête candidates in duel with those of the RN.
Marine Le Pen's granddaughter at that point reacted by inviting voters to "support, throughout France, individuals candidates of the 'right-wing coalition'", that is, the candidates of the electoral alliance between the RN and Eric Ciotti, who he says, represent “an unprecedented hope of beating Emmanuel Macron and the far left”.
Interviewed by TF1 TV, Maréchal expressed "sadness" following her expulsion, but ruled out any desire to rejoin her aunt Marine's party, specifying that she will not resign from the position of MEP and will not run for parliament.
