“Open Game”, Why Le Pen Can Do It –

Will Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella’s Rassemblement National stop well short of an absolute majority? Will the “withdrawal” strategy launched in the runoff constituencies of the French elections by the unusual axis between the left and Emmanuel Macron’s centrists succeed? The future of France is being decided by 49.3 million voters expected to go to the polls from 8 am to 8 pm on Sunday 7 July. 501 seats remain to be assigned, following the first 76 were decided in the first round last Sunday. All attention is on the result of the Le Pen supporters. This is discussed in the Saturday 6 July episode of In Onda, the La7 program. Among the guests of Marianna Aprile and Luca Telese is the French journalist Eric Jozsef, correspondent for Libération, who invites us not to take for granted what the polls predict, which see the Rn far from an absolute majority.

“The game is still open and we must be very careful – explains Jozsef – because in reality 500 different elections are taking place”, those in the individual constituencies. As is known, in many of these the candidates of the Popular Front or of the Macronians who came third in the first round have withdrawn to allow a stronger opposition to the candidate of the RN. “It is not a given that the withdrawal called by the parties will be followed by the voters”, explains the journalist. The fact is that we come from years of strong political opposition between the three sides, with Macron himself who has repeatedly accused the left of not being so different from the right. It is difficult to think that now the voters of the left can lightheartedly vote for the Macronians and vice versa. Much of these elections is played on how many French, in order to stop Le Pen, will vote for the one who until yesterday was an opponent “holding their nose”, says Jozsef quoting Indro Montanelli.

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