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A "puppet", a "negationist", a "racist": Anne Hidalgo does not want to debate against Eric Zemmour

2021-10-31T15:14:43.735Z


The socialist candidate for the presidential election was also surprised that there were no “demonstrations” against the polemicist.


She was not there with the back of the spoon.

"I call for this presidential election to be a real presidential election with a real debate, not a debate on this candidacy of a puppet", was carried away Anne Hidalgo, the socialist presidential candidate, in the LCI / RTL / Le Figaro broadcast "Le Grand Jury".

"I do not argue with a negationist, I do not argue with a racist and I do not argue with that person who is trampling on and walking completely, trampling on what is the history of our country, this which is its greatness and what its values ​​are ”, argued the mayor of Paris, with an incisive tone to which she had not so accustomed her support.

However, if Éric Zemmour became a presidential candidate and if a debate was organized between all the contenders, Anne Hidalgo would participate, she said.

"But (not) a debate, there, in the months of installation of this campaign with this person," she added.

Anne Hidalgo calls "to wake up" before it is "too late"

"A few years ago, remarks like those of Zemmour would have been pronounced on an antenna, there would have been demonstrations", she still considered, considering that "Mr. Zemmour strikes untruths, messages hate, racist messages, anti-Semitic messages ”.

“No one goes to the street to demonstrate (while he) explains to you that General de Gaulle and Pétain are the same thing… And there is not a demonstration in the streets of our cities, you think. that this is a country that is doing well?

She asked, calling for "wake up" before it is "too late".

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According to the latest polls, President Emmanuel Macron, who did not say whether he was a candidate for a second term, would lead the first round of the 2022 presidential election, followed by Marine Le Pen (RN) and Eric Zemmour, possible candidate but not yet declared.

Eric Zemmour, prosecuted several times for controversial statements, has been released several times but also twice convicted of incitement to racial discrimination in 2011 and of incitement to hatred towards Muslims in 2018.

Source: leparis

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