Former minister Jean-Yves Le Drian will head a committee supporting the Macronist list

The former Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs will try to bring together personalities from different backgrounds to help the European list led by Valérie Hayer.

A former Foreign Minister of Emmanuel Macron as reinforcement. Jean-Yves Le Drian will head the support committee for the presidential majority list in the European elections, led by Valérie Hayer. “The goal is simple: to mobilize, explain and convincehe told the newspaper Western Francein an interview published on Sunday, April 21.

This support committee is meeting for the first time “in fourteen days” and he “aims to bring together very diverse political, academic and associative personalities”. This structure will then give “birth of fourteen regional committees,” he further specifies.

Less than fifty days before the elections, Valérie Hayer’s list is stagnating between 16 and 19% according to the polls, a far cry from that of Jordan Bardella’s RN (about 30%). She also has competition from Raphaël Glucksmann (PS-Place publique), located between 11 and 13%. For Jean-Yves Le Drian, former Minister of Defense under François Hollande (2012-2017), “the Glucksmann list is still a prisoner of Nupes”i.e. the left alliance with the rebels, the PCF and EELV. “And this left leads to an impasse”adds this figure defined as a “social democrat of action”.

The stakes of the June 9 vote “is to know whether Europe will leave history or not”judges the former president of the Brittany region. “If the Europe of the 21st century does not assert itself, it will fall apart”, he believes. So he warns against it “A national meeting that in turn proposes a Europe à la carte, with the sole program being the unraveling of the European Union and, in reality, the dismantling of the treaties. The result would be a Europe without collective strength, nor sovereignty, with states surrendering to the game of hostile powers.”.

In the same interview, Jean-Yves Le Drian confirms that he was approached by Emmanuel Macron, whose special envoy for the Lebanese crisis, to take charge of the European list, which he turned down. At the age of 76, “There is an age for everything”he argues.