Words like those held by the deputy RN Grégoire de Fournas, Marine Le Pen no longer wants them. The leader of the National Rally group in the National Assembly, who left the hand of the party to Jordan Bardella this weekend, reminded her troops of their “duty of responsibility”, this Tuesday, during the meeting of the group at the Palais Bourbon. “Every word must be weighed,” she insisted.
“You are deputies, representatives of the French Nation, you must adapt your behavior, your words, to this status. The National Rally is a family, and we are all linked, ”also insisted Marine Le Pen, according to comments reported by BFMTV. “We are not here to have fun,” she added. Which immediately made Jean-Luc Mélenchon react on Twitter: “She admits that it gives them pleasure to make racist invectives! »
The new president of the National Rally also wanted to set the record straight, during this same group meeting. “I don’t want to spend all the shows commenting on tweets,” said Jordan Bardella, according to those around him, after Grégoire de Fournas deleted several tweets deemed racist.
Le Pen sweeps away the controversies
Later in the day, interviewed by BFMTV, Marine Le Pen wanted to recall that she was “the supporter of the social line of the National Rally”. “This is my line, I have been defending it since 2002 and therefore there is no one more attached to this line than myself”, she reacted, questioned about the sidelining the MP for Pas-de-Calais Bruno Bilde and Steeve Briois from the party authorities.
The latter accuse the brand new president, Jordan Bardella, of bringing the party back to an identity and “right-wing” line, while they themselves worked with Marine Le Pen to de-demonize the RN, now on a more neither right nor left. “These concerns are not legitimate, but only time can reassure,” commented Marine Le Pen, assuring that the interim MEP at the head of the RN for a year had itself “finished to convince (her).
The deputy of Gironde, Grégoire de Fournas, had launched Thursday “that he return to Africa” – several deputies claim to have heard “return to Africa” – during an intervention by the black elected official LFI Carlos Martens Bilongo, who spoke about the “drama of illegal immigration” during the session of questions to the government. He has since been excluded for 15 days from the National Assembly.