"Is the rope French?"
This is the question asked by Julien Odoul, head of the RN list in Bourgogne Franche-Comté in the regional elections, during a meeting of his party group at the regional council in December 2019. Another RN regional advisor was also present. outgoing, Jacques Ricciardetti, who asks if a farmer who hanged himself has "left a mark?
»And if he« pissed on himself?
".
This is where Julien Odoul intervenes by making everyone laugh, reports this Friday morning Liberation, which quotes a recording.
The President of the Republicans Christian Jacob denounced the “abject” remarks of the candidate RN.
“Julien Odoul, what indignity.
How can a politician fall into such baseness and make such abject remarks?
Your cynicism is vile.
Each farmer's suicide is a personal tragedy, family and revealing of great distress, "wrote on Twitter the head of LR, himself a former farmer and former boss of the CNJA (young farmers).
. @ JulienOdoul, what indignity.
How can a politician fall into such baseness and make such abject remarks?
Your cynicism is vile.
Each farmer's suicide is a personal and family drama that reveals great distress.
https://t.co/LTdkW4lnOd
- Christian JACOB (@ ChJacob77) June 4, 2021
The leader recently reiterated his opposition to the RN, as his party tears itself apart over the advisability of making alliances with the presidential LREM party.
He estimated in Le Figaro that his party had been "weakened" by very right-wing statements from number 2 Guillaume Peltier while LR has "nothing in common with Marine Le Pen".
Odoul defends himself
Questioned by AFP, Julien Odoul denounced a "commando operation" of Liberation since the publication of a poll which gives him the lead in the first round of regional.
"Everything is out to dirty," he wrote in an SMS, transmitting several of his statements of support to farmers.
The president of RN Marine Le Pen came to support him last week in Chalon-sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire).
They had both visited a sheep farm run by an RN candidate, and discussed with several farmers.
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Whatever the survey, the majority of farmers vote on the right.
In the 2017 presidential election, they voted in the first round first for François Fillon before Marine Le Pen, according to the Political and Parliamentary Review in January 2018.
