If its candidates aren’t qualified, LR will not provide voting instructions on June 12, if they don’t qualify. In the event of a duel between LREM, Nupes, the president of LR at Senate Bruno Retailleau has promised this Tuesday, June 7, that LR would not give voting directions.
“Majority of our voters will vote Macron against Nupes, but we won’t give voting instructions as voting instructions don’t work anymore and it even annoys people. When asked by LR who he would call to vote in the event that a second round was held against a LREM candidate, he replied France 2 when asked who LR would call to support a candidate from the left-aligned Nupes.
If there is a second round LREM / RN then “in any event I think that voting instructions” are necessary. He asked right-wing voters “vote for conviction starting in the first round”, as they “will have a good shot of winning when (the LR candidates, editor’s note) will still be in the second round.”
During the presidential campaign after declaring, before the first round that she would not give instructions for voting, the candidate LR Valerie Pecresse called the second round on the evening of that round to block the candidate RN Marine Le Pen. She stated that she would vote for Emmanuel Macron.
The ex-candidate urged voters from her camp that voted for Emmanuel Macron as president to “take back your freedom” and vote for Les Republicains in the legislative elections on Friday. He considers them the only “credible opposition”.
Bruno Retailleau also accused Emmanuel Macron “anesthetizing” the campaign, just as he had anesthetized his presidential campaign, and “practicing with Mr. Melenchon, the same method that he used at the time the presidential election”, i.e. “to scare”.
He urged, “But the election should be stronger than fear.”
