One hundred and seventy active and former diplomats with their article published today in Le Monde on a defeat of the far right in the next parliamentary elections, a victory which according to them will “weaken France and Europe while the war is raging”.

“We have seen Russia invade sovereign states and destroy with a trail of tanks everything that guarantees peace on the European continent (…) We have seen terrorism attack democracies, illiberal regimes reduce pluralism and freedom of the media information. .

“We cannot accept a far-right victory that will weaken France and Europe while the war rages on.” In Europe, “nationalism” also “undoes alliances and deconstructs societies”, say the co-signatories of the article

And let’s cite the “serious attacks on institutions and pluralism in Hungary”, where the extreme right rules, but also “the USA under Donald Trump” or even “the loss of Brazil’s international influence under Jáich Bolsonaro” or “the . United Kingdom after Brexit”.

“Our enemies will read the victory of the extreme right as a French weakening and as an invitation: to intervene in our national politics, to aggression against Europe, among other things militarily, to economic subjugation of France and the continent”, emphasize the 170 current and former diplomats.

“The cracked armor of our country will expose to more numerous blows taken by them, with even greater zeal, spreading the poison of division, communalism, racism and anti-Semitism and threatening both cohesion and national security,” they continue. .

Two opinion polls published yesterday Saturday show a strong lead for the National Rally (far-right) and its right-wing allies in terms of voting intentions in the first round of parliamentary elections (35.5 to 36%), followed by the left (New People’s Front: 27 to 29.5%), with President Emmanuel Macron’s majority trailing far behind (19.5 to 20%).