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How the term "great replacement" has established itself in the political debate

2022-02-15T19:43:38.305Z


DECRYPTION – Valérie Pécresse caused a stir even in her own camp, after having used during her meeting on Sunday, the expression of “Great replacement”. But where does this notion come from?


The word too much?

By using the expression of “Great replacement” dear to her rival Éric Zemmour, during her Parisian meeting, Sunday February 13, Valérie Pécresse drew the wrath of the political class, even in her own camp, anxious not to be associated with an expression still attributed to the extreme right.

Monday, she tried to clarify her point on RTL:

“I do not resign myself precisely to the theories of Eric Zemmour and the theories of the extreme right, because I know that another way is possible.

(…) That's what I said yesterday and everyone makes me say the opposite”

.

On Sunday, she declared that there was

“no fatality.

Neither to the great replacement nor to the great downgrading”

.

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In October 2021, a survey by Harris Interactive gave the figure of 67% of French people declaring themselves

“rather”

or

“strongly”

worried about the occurrence of a

“great replacement”

in France.

How this syntagm invented by the writer Renaud Camus, icon…

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Source: lefigaro

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