“Valérie Pécresse
is not unanimous among right-wing voters.
"Invited Sunday, December 12 to the"
Grand Jury RTL-LCI-Le Figaro
", Gérald Darmanin has split several attacks against the candidate designated by The Republicans for the presidential election.
According to him, if this one is "
an obviously serious candidate
", she is also the representative of a "
very conservative right
".
“
I respect Valérie Pécresse.
(...) She is a good candidate for Versailles, but not for Tourcoing.
(...) She is a very respectable woman but she is taken hostage by the radicals of her family
», Attacks the Minister of the Interior, quoting Eric Ciotti, Bruno Retailleau or Laurent Wauquiez.
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For him, if there are "
convergences
" between the positions of Valérie Pécresse and those of the government, the "
new proposals
" of the president of the Ile-de-France region are "
excessive
".
"
I regret that the debate carried by The Republicans is placed more on the side of Mr. Ciotti and Mr. Zemmour than on the side of Mr. Séguin,
" he adds.
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Zemmour "chose a vein, that of being excessive"
The Minister of the Interior also attacked another of the candidates running for the presidential election of 2022: Eric Zemmour. Returning to the video announcing the nationalist's candidacy, Gérald Darmanin judged that it was "
essentialist
". “
It is the opposite of the French Republic. He speaks of 'big replacement' as if we had to count the blacks who should replace the whites
”, he attacked, considering that this concept is“
a theory of the extreme right
”. According to him, Eric Zemmour has "
chosen a vein
" that works, "
that of being excessive
".
“
I don't care what people's religion is.
(...) It is not a subject.
It is the opposite of the Universal Republic.
(...) Zemmour counts people according to their origin, their religion and their skin color
, ”he added.
"We have never dissolved so many Islamist associations"
Referring to immigration, Gérald Darmanin also announced the reduction of 50% of visas granted to Algeria and Morocco and of 30% of those granted to Tunisia.
In addition, he added that for six months, "
more than 1100 foreigners, in particular nationals
" of the countries of the Maghreb, had been expelled.
In addition, the Minister of the Interior announced that he had initiated a procedure for the dissolution of the small group "
Les Zouaves
", involved in the violence during the meeting of Eric Zemmour in Villepinte.
“
We have initiated this procedure.
We did it for the ultra-right and we did it in an extremely strong way against small Islamist groups.
Each time, the Council of State has proved us right,
”he explained.
