With less than six months of the presidential election, Arnaud Montebourg would he not also play, in the manner of the polemicist and almost candidate Éric Zemmour, with the strategy of the excess to impress in the opinion?
The former Minister of the Economy and Productive Recovery under François Hollande, candidate for France's “Remontada”, struggling in the polls, is in any case increasing the controversial outings before the release of his book of the same name (
La Remontada - Project for the reconstruction of a land on land,
Editions du cerf), to be published on Wednesday.
Sunday, in "Le Grand Jury LCI-RTL-
Le Figaro
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the former minister shocked a large part of the left by proposing to block private money transfers through the Western Union company, to countries that refuse to repatriate their nationals targeted by an expulsion order from the territory in order to "hit the wallet". “There are eleven billion money transfers that go through Western Union to all countries of origin. We block all transfers as long as we do not have a reception of cooperation ", supported Arnaud Montebourg for whom" these private money transfers are a godsend for these countries ".
I proposed this afternoon in #LeGrandJury to threaten to temporarily block individual money transfers to countries that do not cooperate with France to enforce the Obligations to Leave French Territory to resolve the following situation ⤵️ pic.twitter. com / cWdclOy2sO
- ☰ Arnaud Montebourg (@montebourg) November 7, 2021
Something to cringe many teeth.
"The arms fell to me, I know Arnaud Montebourg, it was, at one time, socialist and to find it to take again this old proposal of the extreme right, that at the same time shocked me and made me sad for those and those who support him ", lamented the leader of the PS Olivier Faure on Europe 1. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of rebellious France, who had for his part already denounced Sunday a" Montebourg adrift "in a ticket blog, hit the nail on Monday on RTL, deploring a "measure of total cruelty" and "unjust because it hits people who have nothing to do with it".
A diplomatic and misunderstood measure
In the entourage of the candidate, one pretext "a misunderstanding", and ensures that Arnaud Montebourg will make amends on LCP this Monday evening, where he will explain that his measure is "diplomatic, and that it was not stated for give the feeling of attacking individuals ”.
An astonishing flashback on the part of a man as experienced as Arnaud Montebourg, who also seemed to have completely mastered his arguments on the set of the Grand Jury.
Last week already, on the sidelines of a campaign trip to the Tarn, the champion of reindustrialisation lashed out with France Bleu for the loss, by the French brand Regain, of a market for the French army which would have preferred a Chinese manufacturer for the making of its sweaters.
The French army chooses Chinese sweaters rather than “Made in Tarn” sweaters?
❌ Fake news!
The facts, in a thread to unwind ⤵️ 1/6
- Spokesperson for the French Ministry of the Armed Forces (@HerveGrandjean) November 4, 2021
The news is immediately picked up by the political class.
Problem, the army denounces a "fake news" and formally denies having entrusted this contract to China, affirming that the tops will be made by two French companies (which, of course, relocate part of their manufacture to the Maghreb).
The candidate sticks to his positions: "The French army practices relocations made up under cover of French brands".
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"It's quite classic political communication", judges communication expert Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet, for whom the "shock proposals" of Arnaud Montebourg can only be intentional.
"He seeks above all to capture a clientele sensitive to his ideas, such as the voters of the Republican Spring (the political movement founded by Amine El Khatmi, which intends to fight against" the extreme right like political Islamism ") for example, and to mark the spirits so that one speaks about him before the release of his book ”, he argues again.
“But what is most worrying is that through this kind of announcement, he articulates a nationalist discourse on the left and blows up a dike with the National Rally.
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"Talking about reindustrialisation and immigration is no shock"
On BFMTV this Monday, the RN candidate Marine Le Pen did not hesitate to point out, with a smile on her lips, that she had already proposed to block money transfers "several months ago".
Arnaud Montebourg's speech undoubtedly does not follow a line as identity as that of the National Rally, the former tenor of the Socialist Party has toughened the tone vis-à-vis immigration, ensuring in his book to appear that "the idea that we should allow all those who want to settle in France is a utopia that can only cause chaos."
Hospitality for all becomes hospitality for no one ”.
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"Talking about reindustrialisation and immigration is not a shock, it is legitimate and it sticks to our program", we reply in the camp of the former socialist, where we rather boast of "Do not elude the subjects which annoy".
The entourage of the former minister assures him, Arnaud Montebourg wants to stay away from polemics and controversies: "We want to embody the strategy of calm in the storm, because when the debate returns to more reasons, it will be those who remained calm, with balanced proposals, which can be heard ”.