Xavier Bertrand, candidate for the LR nomination for the presidential election, denounced Monday the remarks of Gérald Darmanin accusing LR of being "gone to the extreme", responding that Emmanuel Macron was "in the lax camp" in matters fight against insecurity.
"The government, Mr. Macron, they are in the lax camp", retorted on France Inter Mr. Bertrand, also reproaching them for their "naivety".
. @ XavierBertrand: “Mr. Macron and his government are naive and lax.”
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- France Inter (@franceinter) November 22, 2021
"There is the camp of the lax on one side, and the camp of the extremists, who will never bring the slightest solution," he insisted.
And so "I say it to all the members of the government: we have no lesson to receive, because the reality is that between the laxists and the extremists, there is a kind of pact: they are allies. objectives to meet together in the second round of the presidential election, ”he said.
Bertrand / Darmanin tensions
Conversely, "we embody the republican right", and "there is only one strong right capable of restoring confidence and preventing the rise of extremism", he argued, explaining the the preponderant place of the themes of security and immigration in the debates at LR by the fact that "it is a prerequisite for the recovery of our country".
"If you do not put an end to the disorder, there is no recovery of the country, there will be no reconciliation of the French", who "want to live in peace and security", argued the president of the Hauts-de-France region.
He thus responded to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, excluded in 2017 from the Republicans before joining LREM, who estimated Saturday that the LR "are no longer a government party" and criticized them for being "left to the extreme ”.
This close friend of Xavier Bertrand criticized the members of his former party for stalling their steps "not on those of their fathers, but on the footsteps of the extreme right".
