2023-06-21 23:45:51
The charge is violent. Especially when it comes from the former Prime Minister of Jacques Chirac and former member of the UMP, Dominique de Villepin. “The dikes are breaking. A number of politicians feel, including on the right, that there is no other solution than to go up a notch. Even if it means going to the side of the extremes”, castigated Dominique de Villepin, Wednesday morning, on France Inter.
A political shift deplored by the former Prime Minister of a president who had, in 2002, refused to debate with Jean-Marie Le Pen, qualified for the second round. “Extremism is a poison, it destroys everything. It’s not France, ”denounced Jacques Chirac at the time. A message that Dominique de Villepin takes up on his own this Wednesday, worried about alliances between the right and the far right.
“Unfortunately, they are more than conceivable,” he argued, even if officially, Les Républicains refuse to do so to this day. “We can have the feeling, when we look at French political life, that there is a natural moment which is taking place in the direction of right-winging, and a march towards the far right which seems difficult to stop”, he said. he continued.
“Demagogic contest”
The Republicans tabled two bills in early June to “stop mass immigration”. Proposals swept away by the former tenant of Matignon. “I think it’s a strategic mistake. They will not only lose their identity, their values and their principles, clearly established at the time by Jacques Chirac,” he argued. The second text, tabled by Éric Ciotti, president of the Republicans, Olivier Marleix, president of the LR group in the Assembly and Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR group in the Senate, is strongly criticized by the presidential majority, which points to a “Frexit migration” .
“This drift is extremely dangerous for the balance of our political life, argued Dominique de Villepin. Behind these proposals, which look like good will, there is a weakness of conviction about the importance of the rule of law”. And the former Prime Minister to denounce “the extremely dangerous drift” of the Republicans today, inspired by Denmark, which leads a very restrictive policy in terms of immigration.
“The message is to tell foreigners that their country is not an Eldorado. It is a message of sovereignty,” boasted Éric Ciotti. “Yes, it’s easier to settle it in Denmark given the size of the country,” replies Dominique de Villepin. “But what is the seriousness of this approach? I see this demagogic competition which aims to align itself with the hardest. At the end of the day, these are speeches that add to the speeches and feed the far right,” he sternly concluded.
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