Le Pen accused Macron of preparing an administrative coup

Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s National Front party, said that President Emmanuel Macron is preparing for an administrative coup in the midst of his party’s defeat in the elections.

According to the Sputnik report, Le Pen told France Inter radio: There are rumors that tomorrow, four days before the second round, the president will consider the possibility of moving the director general of the police, although he was supposed to be in his position until the end. The Olympic Games remain.

According to Le Pen, the purpose of such hasty appointments is that if he wins the majority of votes in the second round of the parliamentary elections, Jordan Bardella, the leader of the National Front party, will not be able to run the country as he wants, and this is a kind of administrative coup. is.

In the first round, the National Front Party along with its allies from the Republican Party won 33.15% of the votes, which won 270 seats out of the total of 577 seats in the parliament.

In this regard, Roger Cohen, the journalist of the French section of the American newspaper New York Times, wrote that the decisive defeat of the moderate French party in the first round of the French parliamentary elections (on Sunday) ended Emmanuel Macron’s seven-year dominance over national politics.

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Translator: Mina Azimi