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“Great replacement”: Valérie Pécresse has crossed “one more Rubicon”, believes Anne Hidalgo

2022-02-14T08:06:20.289Z


During her first big meeting, the LR presidential candidate felt that there was no fatality to the "big replacement, nor


“No fate.

Neither the big replacement, nor the big downgrade.

Valérie Pécresse, who gave her first big meeting this Sunday, sought the meaning of the formula from others.

After Nicolas Sarkozy's Kärcher, this time she mentioned "the great replacement", a conspiracy theory relayed by the far-right candidate Éric Zemmour.

“An extremely serious turning point”, according to Anne Hidalgo, socialist presidential candidate.

In this first large gathering at the Zénith in Paris, the candidate LR affirmed that France was “at a crossroads”: “In 10 years, will we still be the seventh power in the world?

Will we still be a sovereign nation or an auxiliary of the United States, a counter of China?

Will we be a united nation or a fragmented nation?

Faced with these vital questions, there is no fatality.

Neither the big replacement, nor the big downgrade.

I call you with a start”.

Valérie Pécresse evokes for the first time "the great replacement" during her first campaign meeting pic.twitter.com/ShPpiiLfAy

– BFMTV (@BFMTV) February 14, 2022

According to Anne Hidalgo, these remarks are “serious”.

“It is one more Rubicon that is crossed by the right, which could have been this republican right, but which takes a reference from the far right, the sign undoubtedly for Valérie Pécresse of a frantic race behind Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour”, estimated the candidate from Le Lamantin in Martinique where she is continuing her campaign.

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According to her, Valérie Pécresse “is taking an extremely serious turn for the political debate” which “is absolutely not in the lineage of a Jacques Chirac who has always (…) posed the red line not to be crossed”.

“Our country cannot sink into these fascist, fascistic ideologies.

This theory of the great replacement, we know that it led to the massacre in New Zealand in 2019 "of which the author was a follower, she added.

"No misunderstanding possible", for Barnier

"I say it from Martinique, the land of Aimé Césaire who carried this message of tolerance and recognition of the identity of the other, not to be afraid of it but to make it a collective force", underlined Mrs Hidalgo.

Asked about the subject by LCI, the former candidate for the primary LR Michel Barnier, who became a support for Valérie Pécresse, disagreed.

For him, Valérie Pécresse on the contrary “used this word to say that she did not want it.

No misunderstanding possible.

She says she does (not) want Mr. Zemmour's theories, ”he hammered.

Éric Zemmour advocates the fight against the “great replacement”, a conspiracy theory according to which European populations are replaced by non-European populations.

Source: leparis

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