2024-05-03 04:00:48
Contrary to his previous statements on the subject. The president of the National Rally (RN) Jordan Bardella admitted Thursday that Jean-Marie Le Pen, patriarch of the French far right, had made “eminently anti-Semitic” remarks in his life.
“Jean-Marie Le Pen was convicted of anti-Semitism. The words of Jean-Marie Le Pen were eminently anti-Semitic remarks,” declared Jordan Bardella on BFMTV, during his debate for the European elections with the head of the Macronist list Valérie Hayer.
“But if once again, ten years later, you are calling on Jean-Marie Le Pen for help, it is probably because you do not have much to say about what interests our fellow citizens,” a- he said to his opponent who asked him to declare that “Jean-Marie Le Pen was the disgrace” of his political party “for 50 years”.
A previous “clumsiness”
Jordan Bardella, head of the RN list and big favorite for the European elections of June 9, had to recognize an “awkwardness” last November after having affirmed a few days earlier that he did not “think that Jean-Marie Le Pen was anti-Semitic.” “Jean-Marie Le Pen has obviously locked himself into anti-Semitism,” he declared at the time.
He added that Marine Le Pen, probable RN candidate for the 2027 presidential election, had broken politically with her father in 2015.
The head of the National Rally list and his Macronist competitor, Valérie Hayer, went blow for blow during their first face-to-face of the European campaign. The two candidates clashed in particular on security issues, the war in Ukraine, immigration and even the occupation of universities by students mobilized for Gaza.
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