President LR of the Senate Gérard Larcher believes that the far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour
"hysterizes the debate"
but is not racist and is the consequence of the
"renouncements"
of the right on immigration and security, in an interview in
the Sunday Newspaper
.
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Asked whether Eric Zemmour was racist, Gérard Larcher replied:
“No, but I don't like his way of rewriting history.
He hysterizes the debate.
It divides, it fractures, whereas it is necessary to unite
”.
According to the senator, "
he spoils the nation while he claims to rehabilitate it"
, or
"France, it cannot be: hate each other"
.
However,
“France cannot be: hate each other”
.
However, Gérard Larcher considers that Eric Zemmour "
addresses real questions"
.
For example,
"our capacities for integration and assimilation are saturated"
, proclaims the parliamentarian.
"Electoral phenomenon"
While Eric Zemmour is not declared a presidential candidate but is given by certain polls neck-to-neck with Marine Le Pen to win the second round, Gérard Larcher recognizes that he constitutes
"an electoral phenomenon"
.
"It is a mirror that millions of French people hold out to us, who reproach us for our renouncements, especially on the issue of migration, insecurity and identity," he
explains.
In his eyes,
"there would be neither Le Pen phenomenon nor Zemmour phenomenon if we had better dealt with these questions"
.
Gérard Larcher pays tribute to the last president of the classic right to date:
“When Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to open the debate on national identity, we wondered, me first.
But he was right ”.
