Gabriel Attal came to defend “a grassroots campaign”, Marine Tondelier to support the “union” of the left, while waiting for the arrival of Jean-Luc Mélenchon: the presidential candidates unfolded their strategies against the RN at the Lille clearance sale, Saturday September 5.
In a suit and dark tie for his first clearance sale, Gabriel Attal set out with his campaign team between the 5,000 stands of the largest flea market in Europe, taking selfies and spontaneous exchanges.
“Hello Gabriel! We’re for you,” says a saleswoman, before adding: “You’re small, eh! You look bigger on TV!”
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The secretary general of Renaissance, who will be at a popular festival in Toulouse, from Saturday evening, then in Rouen, Sunday, for the Harvest Festival, claimed a “field campaign, in contact with the French”.
The former Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron declined his priorities, “schools, salaries, borders, artificial intelligence”, by reducing “public debt and climate debt”.
In his wake, a bargain hunter from the neighboring town of Loos, Christophe Vandersnickt, 59, emphasizes “that we must above all motivate people to go and vote, we must talk to the people again and above all not repeat Macron”.
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While Edouard Philippe, another former Prime Minister and Horizons candidate, remains opposed to a primary, Gabriel Attal estimated that “the rally will have to come when the time is right, therefore early 2027”.
Gabriel Attal also attacked the “staggering” position of the National Rally on Ukraine, after the party suggested “turning off the tap” to this country against Russia.
“Trojan Horse”
Criticism shared by Marine Tondelier, according to whom “all those who want to harm France and Europe support Marine Le Pen”, who would, according to her, be “their Trojan horse”.
For her 19th clearance sale, the leader of the environmentalists, who was offered a green skirt and a porcelain cow by sellers, congratulated herself on being the only party “well received on all the left-wing stands”.
Betting on an “almost certain” qualification of candidate RN Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election, she underlined the need for unity on the left.
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Faced with Marine Le Pen, “either it’s someone from the right or it’s someone from the left”, and “the place will go to the least divided camp or rather to the most united camp”, she insisted.
The candidate, who is due to give birth in September, assured “to be there, more than ever, looking for solutions”: “As long as I don’t give birth, I’m in the campaign.” “We have no right to separately lose an election that we could win together, especially not this one.”
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The boss of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is expected around 4 p.m. for a speech on a stage set up for the occasion. A regular at the Lille clearance sale, he should speak for 45 minutes on the economic and social subjects which are in the news this fall.
The Republicans’ stand must also welcome former Prime Minister Michel Barnier.
Jérôme Guedj, deputy for Essonne and candidate in the socialist primary, is also expected on Saturday alongside the city’s PS mayor, Arnaud Deslandes.
The Lille flea market, launched in the Middle Ages, is one of the most emblematic events in Lille life, both flea market, garage sale, and festive event with gigantic tables of mussels and fries.
Around 2.5 million visitors (nearly double the population of the Lille metropolis) are expected to set foot on the cobblestones of the 53 kilometers of streets reserved for the clearance sale in the center of Lille, largely pedestrianized for 50 hours for the occasion.
More than 3,000 civil servants, including 1,800 police officers and 200 gendarmes, as well as 560 firefighters and 600 municipal agents are mobilized for these two days of celebrations, indicated the zonal prefect Bertrand Gaume.
To combat gender-based and sexual violence, secure spaces have been set up in the metro and nightlife areas.
With AFP
