New embarrassing sequence for the National Rally. On Wednesday, Sophie Carnicer, RN candidate for the legislative elections in the 2nd constituency of the Territoire de Belfort, experienced a long ordeal on the set of France 3 Franche-Comté, while she was debating with her competitors. Uncomfortable on the occasion of this television baptism of fire, the candidate was unable to answer most of the questions asked. “I’m sorry,” she blurted out several times.
“How to solve this equation: less and less money at the level of local authorities and an increasingly strong demand for public services, or services to the population in the broad sense? “Asked him in particular the journalist on set. And the RN candidate to try, after several seconds of hesitation: “By saving… on immigration? “. “I didn’t prepare, I’m sorry,” she finally acknowledged.
This Thursday, Sophie Carnicer returned to her failed performance: “I did not expect specific questions … I could no longer get a word out,” she admitted to France 3 Franche-Comté. “I had the courage to go but I was more than useless. “This sequence is reminiscent of the discomfort experienced, a few days earlier, by the candidate RN Mélanie Fortier, on France 3 Bourgogne. “I thought about it during the debate,” said Sophie Carnicer.
A candidate shows off a photo of his black wife
On May 8, Mélanie Fortier, the youngest of the Burgundy-Franche-Comté regional council, had drawn a lot of ridicule after her first television appearance. “I did not really understand this question,” she replied to the journalist who asked her about the policy of the National Rally in terms of public services. “Can we cut this part?” then asked the 24-year-old.
On Wednesday, it was also another RN candidate, Gérard Vollory (3rd district of the Rhône), who was mocked on social networks after his passage on the set of France 3 Rhône-Alpes. To justify that he was not “an extreme”, he exhibited a photo of his wife, black and of Rwandan origin, causing a moment of unease.
“I apologize to those who may have been shocked,” he told Le Progrès on Thursday morning. “That was my first debate, getting that picture out was a really big rookie mistake, it was off topic. It was not prepared at all. I’m sorry because I involved my private life, it’s something I should never have done. »
For Marine Le Pen, Gérard Vollory’s gesture is clumsy. “It may be awkward, she admitted this Thursday on BFMTV. (…) But you are there facing candidates who are French people who (…) are not political professionals, who have not studied at Sciences Po. We can forgive them a lot of things, you see”, said she estimated.