Valls expressed his “anxiety” facing a FN able to win … – The Obs

Paris (AFP) – Manuel Valls, which ensures that it will remain at Matignon regardless of the outcome of the departmental elections in late March, made Sunday by “anguish” against big scores polls promised by the FN a party able to win, he said, the presidential in 2017.

Prime Minister said the fact take recourse to the “stigma” Marine Le Pen’s party, credited with nearly 30 % of voting intentions for the election of 22 and 29 March, which he said would lead France to “ruin”.

“I’m not afraid for myself, said Mr Valls, Sunday during an interview on I-Tele / Europe 1 / Le Monde. “I’m afraid for my country, I’m afraid he smashes against the National Front,” he has said, launching a call for electoral mobilization.

“My anguish, can I tell you about my anguish, my fear for the country? This is the FN to 30%, not the second round, but in the first round of the departmental elections, “he said.

The one who had already described a September FN” the gates of power, “recalled that the far-right” was already the largest party in France in the European elections. It can be again on the occasion of the departmental elections, “he predicted.

According to several polls published in recent weeks, the FN is neck and neck with UMP- UDI, several points ahead of the PS.

“I claim the stigma of Marine Le Pen, the FN brings no solution, either for departments or for the country (…) and more it is a program that will lay against the French at each other, “insisted Mr Valls.

” Do not you think a National Front which is 25% in the European elections perhaps 30% in departmental, and so on, can not win the presidential election? Not in 2022, not in 2029 but in 2017, “he warned.

Manuel Valls, who denounced Thursday night at a rally in Haute-Vienne a” generalized sleep “face of the rise of the FN, especially among intellectuals attacked directly philosopher Michel Onfray.

” When (Mr. Onfray) explains that basically it is best Alain de Benoist ” “philosopher of the New Right that somehow shaped the ideological matrix of the National Front”, rather than the philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, “it means we lose pins,” reported Mr. Valls.

The president of Standing France, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan found on Radio J “extravagant” these statements and accused the prime minister of “overplaying” the danger FN. Mr Valls is “by its policy responsible “for the rise of Marine Le Pen’s party

– Economy. ‘It gets better’ –

Asked also about the fact whether he would remain in post failure in the county, one year after his appointment to Matignon, Manuel Valls replied: “Definitely”

“I will continue the mission entrusted to me by the President of the Republic. that of reforming the country. But that is not the question facing the French, “he has said.

The FN is immediately stepped into the breach that Mr. Valls put the contrary” in play “sound Prime Minister at the county.

“The implication so pronounced and personal Manuel Valls in the countryside of departmental, to the point of forgetting its head of government bonds in charge of policy France, can not be without consequences for his political future, “denounced the FN in a statement.

Offensive Thursday night against Nicolas Sarkozy, the head of government has abandoned this time the attacks against the UMP .

Prime Minister defended the government’s economic policy, saying “hungry convinced that the path chosen with the President of the Republic is the good.”

“2015 it is the return of confidence, economically, and therefore growth. Feel better in our country, “the Prime Minister said, repeating several times” it gets better “citing in particular the improvement of consumer confidence and business.