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EU election: French right-wing party launches its EU electio campaign
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15/05/2024
A Trump-style wall around the EU, more nuclear power and re-industrialising Europe: these are some of the key points the French right-wing candidate for the EU elections François-Xavier Bellamy hopes will boost his campaign. But voters be charmed?
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"We need Europe to change its course."
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It's with this slogan the French right-wing candidate François-Xavier Bellamy hopes to
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boost his political campaign as his party lags behind in the polls for the upcoming
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EU elections.
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Announcing his Republican Party's programme on Tuesday in Paris, the MEP has focused his
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campaign on two main themes - European sovereignty and immigration.
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"We propose that all European states contribute to the collective defence effort to reach
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3% of the GDP.
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It's a major challenge for us."
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Bellamy also said he is for the construction of physical walls at the borders of the EU.
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And to achieve all of this, Bellamy makes it clear his party will not vote for current
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EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who is part of his EPP party in Brussels.
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"We don't want to give Ursula von der Leyen a second mandate.
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The least we can say is that this position will have been, in reality, very far from
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being marginal, followed by a large part of the political formations that make up the
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EPP."
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The right-wing candidate assured he is the head of the only right-wing party in France
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that can actually make his country's voice heard in Brussels.
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"The European People's Party to which we belong will be, in all likelihood, the first
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parliamentary group at the end of these elections.
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We are the only list that can allow the French to make the decision tomorrow in the European
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debate."
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But with only 8% of voting intentions, the traditional right-wing party finds itself
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caught in between French President Emmanuel Macron's list that leans towards the centre-right
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and the far-right National Rally Party, currently leading the polls at 32%.
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