“If there weren’t three of them we could have thought about the second round of the presidential debate”, comments Evening. A Belgian daily noted a “great tension” during the telecast of the match between Gabriel Attal, Jordan Bardella and Manuel Bompard, on Tuesday 25 June evening on TF1, “measuring the challenges arising from the shocking dissolution of the National Assembly”.
Representatives of the three political blocs insulted each other, especially on the defense of purchasing power and pensions. However, five days before the first round of parliamentary elections, “The level of trade was not up to the choice that the French are about to make, which will also determine the future of Europe”.
“For lack of time, the place of France in the world was not even mentioned!” suffocates newspapers.
Attal is “fighting”, Bardella is “very confident”
Evening notes that the current Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, “tenant (from Matignon) on probation?” “he fought” facing their opponents. He has “sent back to back” his two challengers, “accusing them of promising voters a moonshot of purchasing power and the rest of their economic program”.
“I could promise as well as my competitors. Except I’m the prime minister. I propose a serious and credible plan,” he explained.
“Very confident in himself”, the president of the National Assembly (RN), Jordan Bardella, sees himself “already in place”, of the head of the cohabitation government, note Evening. He appeared as “prime minister of purchasing power”, “prime minister of fiscal peace”.
At a time when Emmanuel Macron is causing the risk of “civil war”, and while the extreme right dominates the polls, the MEP “tried to appease the French”. “I will restore authority and security,” he promised. “Conjugate formulas without conditions”, underlines the Belgian media.
Facing Gabriel Attala, who became Prime Minister “the youngest in history (from Ve Republic) at the beginning of the year”, and to Jordan Bardella who “led the RN to a dominant position in the European elections on June 9”the presence of Manuel Bompard, from the New Popular Front“reminded the voters that the left has not yet decided who will lead it if it wins the elections”, estimated CNN. Because he is the coordinator of La France insoumise “doesn’t have the same glory”.
“Nobody seems to have managed to land a big blow”
The US channel doesn’t seem to see a real winner at the end of the first big debate of the campaign, “very diverse and sometimes chaotic”, two hours for two hours. “None of the three candidates seem to have been able to make a big impact or make enough of a difference to sway voter opinion.”
“Obviously, Gabriel Attal has shown that he has a better record than his opponents,” greetings from his side Evening. Before he objected that this control could not affect the result of the elections on June 30 and July 7.
“During the Attal-Bardella duel before the European elections, the head of government already cheated the match according to all observers. Thus, the far-right candidate did not lose a single point in the polls.”