The match is eagerly awaited on both camps.
The president of the RN, Marine Le Pen, and the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, will meet this Thursday evening February 11 on France 2 to debate for 45 minutes on sovereign subjects, such as secularism, Islamism, immigration or security ... For Marine Le Pen, the exercise takes on the air of a trial run before the presidential election of 2022. The president of the National Rally wants a facelift after her failed debate against Emmanuel Macron in 2017 .
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In the entourage of the Minister of the Interior, it is stressed that he is preparing by being
"thoroughly in his missions"
which
"touch on the subjects of debate"
, whether to defend the bill on separatism in discussion in the Assembly, or to animate the
“Beauvau de la sécurité”
, unprecedented consultation on the police.
At the end of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday, the government spokesman Gabriel Attal judged him that this debate will be
"a moment of truth"
.
"We hear a lot of the National Gathering giving lessons"
, but its elected representatives
"are never there to vote"
the texts which allow
"to close places of worship where hatred is preached"
or to strengthen the means of the police, he said on Wednesday.
Mélenchon at Hanouna
In parallel, Jean-Luc Mélenchon will be at the same time invited on C8 in the program
Balance Ton Poste
of Cyril Hanouna.
“We have one principle: to defend our ideas wherever we can do it under good conditions.
There, there was a great opportunity.
Because at the same time, there is on France 2 this debate between Gérald Darmanin and Marine Le Pen.
Two characters animated by the same neurosis, the same negative obsession of Muslims.
Being present elsewhere, at the same time, and talking about something else is an act of resistance to this gloomy atmosphere
,
”
explained the leader of La France Insoumise in an interview with
Liberation
.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon even goes so far as to say that he
"goes into political exile with Hanouna"
.
"We will talk about what matters more: social question, ecological bifurcation, democracy, freedoms,"
he promised.
Several left-wing figures also wanted to set up a
“counter-programming”
by organizing a “Facebook Live” at the same time.
The opportunity may be to come back to the disagreements that remain between the left-wing parties and that prevent any union in the perspective of 2022.