Elisabeth Borne on the RN “heir to Pétain”: Marine Le Pen denounces “infamous and unworthy” remarks

2023-05-28 14:00:37

The answer will not be long in coming. Marine Le Pen judged that the remarks made earlier this Sunday by Élisabeth Borne on the RN were “infamous and unworthy”. “They are not acceptable with regard to the first opposition party, its 88 deputies, its thousands of elected officials and the millions of French people it represents! “, she reacted on Twitter.

Elisabeth Borne’s remarks about the National Rally are infamous and unworthy. They are not acceptable with regard to the first opposition party, its 88 deputies, its thousands of elected officials and the millions of French people it represents! https://t.co/4BT8WoM01S

– Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) May 28, 2023

In an interview with Radio J, the Prime Minister had criticized the far-right party, calling him “the heir of Pétain”. “I think you shouldn’t trivialize your ideas, your ideas are always the same (…). I think that a change of name does not change the ideas, the roots”, she had scolded, criticizing the fact that the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen had never denounced “what the historical positions may have been of his party”.

“Serious, false and offensive”

Before Marine Le Pen, his faithful lieutenant Jordan Bardella also reacted. “By making such serious, misleading and insulting remarks, Elisabeth Borne insults the first opposition party and smears the millions of French people who vote for the RN”, stormed party president, on Twitter.

On his side, MP RN Sébastien Chenu, guest in “Political Questions” (France inter / France info / Le Monde), criticized the Prime Minister whom he considered “uneducated, unworthy and incapable”. “Uncultured because she forgets that in the history of the National Front, people founded it like Georges Bidault, President of the Council and resistant, like Michel de Camaret, resistant”, affirmed the elected representative of the North, avoiding the talking about Pierre Bousquet, former Waffen-SS, who also participated in the founding of the National Front in 1972.

“She is unworthy because she hides undemocratic practices through her excesses of language when she restores censorship, by having a book about her life seized or redacted”, “La Secrète” by Bérengère Bonte (L’Archipel ), he attacked again. Justice must render its decision on June 30, after a summons from the Prime Minister for invasion of her privacy. “She is incapable, she would do better to focus on the French rather than insulting millions of voters,” concluded the MP.