PM Gabriel Attal, far-right Jordan Bardella, left-wing MP Manuel Bompard trade accusations in a bruising live TV encounter, holding discussion on issues often drowned by a cacophony of voices.
Attal accuses his far-right and left-wing political opponents of "promising the Moon" in a three-way televised debate ahead of next Sunday's first round of early parliamentary elections. / Photo: AFP
Bardella's National Rally still has a clear lead in opinion polls ahead of Sunday's first round of voting in the parliamentary elections, followed by the left-wing New Popular Front coalition with President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance lagging in third. "I am Prime Minister. The difference with me is that I do not want to lie to the French," retorted Attal.
"Excuse me, Mr Teacher!" Bardella bristled at one point, while adding that"if you were credible, we would not be here at all" — a reference to Macron's dissolution of parliament following his party's third place in European elections."Stop your cinema, please. You are not at the level of your office."
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