“Me, I fight against radical Islamism which is an ideology.
I am not fighting against Muslims ”.
The RN candidate Marine Le Pen said on Monday that she feared seeing her project for the 2022 presidential election assimilated to the "very radical" comments of the Figaro journalist and CNews star columnist Eric Zemmour.
"On the electoral level I do not fear it because I do not believe at all that Eric Zemmour is likely to attract voters who would vote for me," said Marine Le Pen, interviewed Friday by the Reunion Island news site Linfo .re.
An interview she tweeted on Monday.
🖋 “I want to be the president of civil peace and the president of the national union.
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- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) June 14, 2021
"The only fear I can have is that the words which are often very radical, and which I do not share with Eric Zemmour, may be assimilated to mine, that is to say that my project is the victim of a caricature with regard to proposals that are not mine, ”she continued.
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For Marine Le Pen, “Eric Zemmour has a pessimistic vision of our country.
It's not my case.
This belief he has in civil war is not mine, his vision of Islam which he considers incompatible with the Republic is not mine.
Me, I fight against radical Islamism which is an ideology (...).
I am not fighting against Islam.
I am very attached to religious freedom and freedom of conscience ”.
"So the only fear I have is that I wouldn't want there to be any confusion between what I'm wearing, what I want to implement and what he could defend in the frame. of this presidential campaign ”, she added.
Speculations are growing on Eric Zemmour's inclinations to take the plunge into active politics, while various personalities are speaking out in support of him.
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In April, Marine Le Pen said that the 24-hour news channel CNews, fined for "incitement to hatred" and "violence" after comments by its star polemicist Eric Zemmour on unaccompanied minor migrants , participated in "recreating the conditions for political debate" before the 2022 presidential election.