The interim president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, "
does not dare to imagine
" that his competitor for the presidency of the movement, Louis Aliot, wanted to "
compare him publicly to Sandrine Rousseau
" in a forum against the followers of the
"great replacement »
.
"
I do not know if I am targeted, I do not dare to imagine that someone who is a candidate for the presidency of the National Rally can denigrate me or compare me publicly to Sandrine Rousseau
", declared Jordan Bardella at the microphone of Sud-Radio, posing as "
the guarantor of the unity of (his) political family
".
conspiracy theory
In a column published Friday on the website of the newspaper
L'Opinion
, Louis Aliot, mayor of Perpignan, harshly criticized the most determined followers of the "
great replacement
", "
a fad that transforms its ambassadors into
'
right-wing Sandrine Rousseau
'" , in reference to the Green MP.
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However, Jordan Bardella has already publicly endorsed the "
great replacement theory
" in August 2021, while Marine Le Pen has repeatedly expressed her circumspection of this conspiracy theory of a replacement of European populations by a population of foreign origin.
"
I don't intend to use the press to disparage each other or try to draw parallels that seem to me to be extremely awkward
," Jordan Bardella commented on Monday, arguing that he was "
not an
'
identitarian
' ””, but “
on the same line
” as Louis Aliot.
"Fraternity"
The one who appears as the big favorite to remove the presidency of the party at the beginning of November has, moreover, disputed the idea that the RN can be “in a form of radical nostalgia with which it would be necessary to break“.
"
It's been ten years since the strategy implemented by Marine Le Pen has precisely consisted in transforming a protest movement (into) an opposition movement
", argued Jordan Bardella.
"
For eleven years, we have precisely cut the cord with a tumultuous history (...) and the last people who had a rather radical thought left the movement to join Éric Zemmour
", defended Marine Le Pen on Sunday on BFMTV, in hoping that the campaign "
continues to take place under the auspices of brotherhood among the candidates
".
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The outgoing president, who remains the patroness of the RN parliamentary group in the National Assembly, has restricted herself to “
neutrality
” in the battle for her succession at the head of the party.