Legislative: DSK invites right-wing voters to vote left to “prevent the RN from gaining a majority on its own”

His appearances in the media are rare. Dominique Strauss-Kahn has withdrawn from political life since the Sofitel affair thirteen years ago and has decided to get involved, while the political future of the country will be decided in the elections next Sunday, thanks to the second round of the parliamentary elections. The former Socialist Minister of Economic Affairs (1997-1999) was a guest on LCI on Tuesday evening and called on the French to “choose the least bad solution: that the National Rally is not the only majority.”

“My principles mean that I like neither the extreme part of La France insoumise nor the RN, but that we are faced with a choice that is no longer that”stressed the man who headed the IMF between 2007 and 2011. And to warn voters to better encourage them “republican front” : “The only ones who can form a majority on their own are the RN, and the only ones who can form a relative majority with allies to find allies are still the RN.” The latest seat projections predict a stronger base for the flame party and its allies in the lower house, against the left bloc and the presidential camp.

Based on this observation, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who could vote for Insoumis on July 7, recalled the effort that the left had to make twenty years ago during the rather unexpected duel between Jacques Chirac and Jean-Marie Le Pen, in the absence of Lionel Jospin was eliminated in the first round of the 2002 presidential elections. “I was the first on television to say: ‘we must vote for Jacques Chirac, even if we hold our noses’, now I say the same thing”he remembered. If “the left had hesitated” thereafter “Understood”, According to him, the current situation is “symmetrical”. A way to encourage the other camp to do the same.

“A completely different cycle”

“The right must understand that even if we have to put a ballot for the New Popular Front in the ballot box, and that hurts them, and even if this candidate is an LFI, and that makes them even more campy, the problem is not to elect the LFI to power, that will not happen, it is to prevent the RN from getting a majority on its own. he analyzed in detail. Jean-Luc Melenchon’s party would not be that “no longer an opponent” since he ‘can’t win’ on July 7th.

In the event that the RN would have a free hand to govern, “we would end up in a completely different cycle”, he is afraid of. ‘It would be a major change in the functioning of our society’ argued the former presumptive candidate for the 2012 presidential election, who fears a future “increase in rates” on the markets if this scenario is confirmed on Sunday. While he fears a fate “Greek”referring to the crisis in Athens, DSK “I hope this will not be the case for our country.”