Emmanuel Macron has gathered government ministers at the Elysee Palace to ensure the only fight that matters this week is against the far right.

Ministers drawn from the right-wing political spectrum persisted in their refusal to ask their constituents to support Mélenchon’s LFI party.

The meeting organized by Emmanuel Macron, according to the French media I’Opinion, it revealed deep dimensions of opinion within the government. From the start of the talks, Macron wanted to set the stage for them, asking that each issue be discussed in its own time, without any more fighting. “We have one week left to avoid the RN coming to power,” he warned.

The introduction, which contradicts what he has advocated until recently, surprised one participant, who estimated that the backlash would focus on both the far right and the New People’s Front, the report said.

Minister Hervé Berville and Minister Fadillah Hattabi recalled the danger represented by the National Rally, and the former referred to the racist attacks he suffers on a daily basis.

Minister Patrice Vergriet highlighted her experience as a local elected official – mayor of Dunkirk – to describe the current that the National Rally represents in the region today. He also described what he considers an important difference between the LFI and the National Rally. In this 15th electoral district of the North, the LFI candidate called on Sunday night for the anti-far-right centrist candidate to be upvoted.

Faced with this attitude, Macron’s ministers from the right did not abandon their line. Christophe Besy reiterated the position expressed by Edouard Philippe on Sunday night: support the “republican” candidates and not support the candidates from the left coalition.

The Minister of Ecological Transition also recalled that he comes from a moderate Region of Maine-et-Loire “which faces extreme situations. Bruno Le Maire stuck to the position he expressed earlier today.

Although he believes the primary fight is against the far right, the finance minister refuses to ask for votes for the LFI. Marie Lebec, Oro Berger, Catherine Vautrin and Olivia Grégoire expressed similar views.

The bottom line is that after several weeks of launching attacks against the New Popular Front and on election day taking somewhat ambiguous positions, Emmanuel Macron and Gabriel Attal clearly assured that today it was necessary to launch a general mobilization against the extreme right with the argument that an LFI MP is better than one elected by Jordan Bardela’s party. “I prefer a thousand times an LFI MP to a 271 RN MP,” said an adviser to the French president.

To confirm this stance, Gabriel Attal participated in a video conference with the candidates of the Macron camp on Monday afternoon. “Only the RN can have an absolute majority in the National Assembly. Neither the NFP nor the LFI can have an absolute majority. The issue is therefore clear: do we want to fully entrust the power and destiny of the country to the RN? We answer no,” said the Prime Minister, “things are clear. After all”.