- French Prime Minister has told voters ‘don’t be like the British’ over ‘Frexit’ fears
- This comes ahead of the European elections, which will take place in June.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has told voters “not to be like the Britons who cried after Brexit” ahead of next week’s European elections, saying illegal immigration and cross-Channel economic tension are more pressing than ever.
In an interview with RTL radio On Thursday, Attal warned that voters who choose the far right risk being like the British, citing recent polls in the United Kingdom that showed British voters would choose to remain in the European Union if the 2016 referendum were repeated.
“A large majority of Britons regret Brexit and sometimes regret not having gone to vote or having voted for something that was negative for their country,” he said.
‘Today there is more illegal immigration than ever in the UK since they left the European Union. There are huge economic difficulties in the UK because they left the (EU).’
Marine Le Pen’s far-right party, Rassemblement National, or National Rally in English, is doing well in polls in France.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has said French voters seeking to elect the far right in the next European elections risk becoming Britons who are “crying since Brexit”.
Marine Le Pen’s far-right party, Rassemblement National, is doing well in the polls.
Its president, Jordan Bardella, obtains more than 30% of the votes, well ahead of the support for MEP Valerie Hayer.
Hayer was chosen by French President Emmanuel Macron to be the main candidate of his centrist party in the European elections to be held in June.
While Le Pen’s party stopped supporting a “Frexit” several years ago, and has since said it wants France to remain in the EU, Attal learned that the far-right party was pursuing policies that would lead to France could not remain in the EU. EU.
He said that if the far right acted in the European Parliament, “it could have the ability to block European institutions, which would have very dangerous consequences for our country.”
“When you say that you will no longer respect the rules of the single market, that you will not pay France’s dues and that you will stop respecting most of the treaties, the reality is that we are no longer in the EU,” he said.
In 2022, Macron accused Le Pen of having a secret ‘Frexit’ plan to follow Britain out of the European Union and create a right-wing alliance with Poland and Hungary.
The head of state made this statement in the middle of the election campaign, in which polls threatened his role as leader of France.
“She wants to leave, but she doesn’t dare say it, and that’s never good,” Macron said, while discussing his bitter rival’s EU policies at a rally in eastern France.
“She says she wants an alliance of nation states, but she will find herself cornered and try to reach an alliance with her friends,” he added.
Attal, whom critics call Macron’s “mini me,” has taken center stage in the campaign against Le Pen’s party.
At only 34 years old, he is the youngest prime minister in the history of France.
TO recent survey showed that Le Pen’s National Assembly was clearly ahead with 33.5%, against Macron’s Renaissance party, which fell 16%. The Socialist Party was far behind with 14%.
