Reading the
Figaro on
Thursday morning, the EELV mayor of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic jumped.
One platform was particularly the object of his wrath: that of Valérie Pécresse.
Two days before Christmas, the presidential contender LR is championing the values and cultural significance of Christmas for Europe against those she calls the
"Wokists, indigenists,
(and the)
green ideologues"
, who would be
"the new craftsmen of this vast enterprise of making the French feel guilty."
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In this text, the city councilor of Bordeaux (Gironde) is directly targeted.
“My indignation is also that of a Frenchwoman who notes that the same injunction to no longer be what we are is made to our people.
It also targets the same symbols: didn't the mayor of Bordeaux also want to dismiss Christmas by depriving the people of Bordeaux of their Christmas tree?
“, Pretends to wonder Valérie Pécresse.
Last year, in September 2020, Pierre Hurmic had indeed caused controversy by removing the Christmas tree from the Place Pey Berland, qualifying it moreover "
of dead tree
".
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Faced with this attack, the mayor of Bordeaux wanted to respond
. "It seems to me so far removed from reality that I can not let these inaccuracies so above ground pass",
pin the ecologist. And sticking out his claws:
"There are more interesting things to say than playing petty political politics."
In the context of the presidential campaign, Pierre Hurmic even considers that Valérie Pécresse
"runs after Ciotti and Zemmour".
What to accuse him of being in "
an operation of gutter."
And to refuse to undertake any “wokist” approach -
“it is absurd and unworthy of someone who wants to be at the head of the State”
-, inviting the president of the Ile-de-France region to
"Come a little to the provinces".
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If he admits to having made
"a mistake in speaking of a dead tree
", Pierre Hurmic does not understand why he was treated
as
"
anti-Christmas or anti-fir ..."
Believing that
"his left-wing opponents (him ) accuse of being too practicing Catholic ”
, he embraces
“ the inculture
”of the right which attacks him on his“ non-respect of Christian traditions ”: the fir“
is a secular act, not religious
”.
A remote-controlled platform?
In order not to arouse the same controversy as last year, the town hall handed over this year, in the center of the city, a work in the shape of a metal tree eleven meters high, made of glass and steel.
“For me, the page of the Christmas tree has been turned. You really have to have a twisted mind to come back to that, it's politics, "
squeaks the mayor of Bordeaux who believes that Valérie Pécresse did not make this forum at random. "
It has Nicolas Florian in his team
(predecessor and main opponent of Pierre Hurmic Editor's note),
he has every interest in maintaining the controversy",
concludes the elected.
Valérie Pécresse's forum was also a response to the controversy over the ban promoted in a Council of Europe guide to use the qualifier “Christmas” to evoke the holiday of December 25.
The term was not considered “inclusive enough”.
For the right-wing candidate, Europe,
“it's a common culture before being a common market.
"
