For Emmanuel Macron, the “fight” against the RN “no longer goes through moral arguments”

2023-05-30 15:40:27

The Head of State said Tuesday, May 30 before the Council of Ministers that the far right should not be fought “by moral arguments”seeming to distance herself from Elisabeth Borne, who had considered that the National Rally was the“Pétain’s heir”participants reported.

“You will not be able to make millions of French people who voted for the far right believe that they are fascists”launched the Head of State in the presence of his Prime Minister, according to these participants who confirm comments reported by The Parisian et Le Figaro.

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In an interview broadcast on Sunday by Radio J, the head of government attacked the National Rally, which she said she did not believe “for normalization”. “I think you shouldn’t trivialize your ideas, your ideas are always the same. So now, the National Rally is putting the forms in it, but I continue to think that it is a dangerous ideology”she judged, assuring that the party of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella was ” heir “ of Philippe Pétain, head of the Vichy regime who collaborated with Nazi Germany.

“The fight against the far right no longer involves moral arguments”, assured President Macron in the Council of Ministers. According to him, “we must discredit” the RN “by substance and inconsistencies” rather than by “words from the 1990s that no longer work”.

Emmanuel Macron had already felt in the past that it was necessary “respond to the challenges of the country” to stem the rise of the RN. “Marine Le Pen will arrive” in power “if we do not know how to respond to the challenges of the country and if we install a habit of lying or denial of reality”he said at the end of April in The Parisian.

The World with AFP