The executive continues its charge against the right.
The day after the third debate of the contenders in the running for the Congress of Republicans, scheduled for December 1 to 4, Marlène Schiappa expressed her opinion.
After watching a "
large part of the debate
", the Deputy Minister deplored that the discussion was akin to "
50 shades of Eric Zemmour
".
"
Most of the candidates have spent their time chasing the proposals
" of the polemicist, she continued, saying she was "
shocked
" by certain remarks.
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“
When we heard, for example, a candidate say that there was a civilization superior to another, I consider that these are words that are not worthy of a person who wants to be head of state of a great world power
”, criticized the member of the government, relating the expression used the day before by Philippe Juvin.
"
I consider that the notion (...) is problematic
", she added.
Marlène Schiappa also quoted Michel Barnier and Xavier Bertrand to accuse them of taking up "
the elements of government language
".
"
Xavier Bertrand repeats what Gérald Darmanin says less well,
" quipped the minister.
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A few days earlier, the Minister of the Interior had moreover formulated a substantially identical criticism.
Former LR himself, Gérald Darmanin thus reproached the members of his former political family for stalling their steps "
not on those of their fathers, but on the footsteps of the extreme right
".