The controversy mounts while Valérie Pécresse, LR presidential candidate, and Christophe Castaner, boss of LREM deputies, reproached Eric Zemmour on Sunday for the cries of the crowd, who chanted "Macron assassin" during his meeting, without the candidate extreme right does not intervene.
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The slogan was mounted on the Trocadéro esplanade a dozen times after the Reconquête candidate declared
: “Some are indignant at my firmness.
What makes me indignant are not the words and the concepts, it is the daily dramas that you undergo.
(…) We will never do justice to all those whom the State has failed to protect”.
Eric Zemmour then paused in his speech as the cries rose, without however intervening.
“He did not hear it and he would not take up the expression on his own
,” said those around him when asked about these statements.
“E. Zemmour lets a crowd shout “Macron assassin”. I strongly fight the outgoing president but letting an opponent be treated as a murderer is dangerous for the Republic
, ”lamented Valérie Pécresse in a tweet.
“That is certainly not the right!
That's not my France!
“
, she added, while the candidate Reconquest!
presented himself during his meeting as
"the only right-wing candidate"
.
An attitude deemed “irresponsible”
“It is a shame for democracy and the Republic to hear such remarks
”, added the president of the deputies LR Damien Abad about the slogan heard.
"When you want to be President of the Republic, you must first have it respected by your own activists!"
, added the president of the Paca region Renaud Muselier, who left LR.
In the presidential majority, the president of the LREM group in the National Assembly Christophe Castaner described as
“irresponsible”
the attitude of the candidate, who
“let it go”
, and considered that he had even
“demonstrated this afternoon of his presidential impediment"
.
Nor is it
“the Republican Right;
the Republican right would never do that.
On the other hand, the far right, yes, for a long time
,” added Christophe Castaner.
Former Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who called for Emmanuel Macron to vote, expressed concern about the
"level of far-right voting intentions"
illustrated by
"the violence of the speeches"
, considering that
"at the Trocadéro a new step has been taken.
