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“
I assume to have used strong words
”.
This weekend, Senator LR from Loire-Atlantique Laurence Garnier provoked strong reactions from her political opponents.
In question: the use of the term "
prostitution
" to describe the participation of the mayor of Nantes and first delegate national secretary of the PS, Johanna Rolland, in a public meeting on pension reform.
Organized by Nupes, this meeting brought together personalities from the left and far left, like Boris Vallaud, president of the PS group in the Assembly, Ian Brossat, PCF adviser or Alexis Corbière and Andy Kerbrat, deputies LFI.
“See the Mayor of
Nantes to appear alongside France Insoumise is distressing.
All extremes must be fought.
No complacency, no compromise, no prostitution.
Never !"
, wrote on Twitter the city councilor.
The reactions were not long in coming.
“A campaigning senator who practices public abuse.
The
right at the time of the VSS [sexist and sexual violence] which makes fun of prostitution.
Unworthy, abject, lamentable”
tackled Aymeric Seassau, the communist deputy for Culture at the town hall of Nantes.
The case even went up to the national level, the boss of the PS, Olivier Faure, denouncing a “
sexist
” insult.
"Hello Ms. Garnier, did you really write 'prostitution' for a joint meeting against retirement at 64?
Do you measure the vulgarity, the machismo, the contempt that such remarks represent?
Do you plan to apologize to Johanna Rolland?
, challenged Alexis Corbière.
“I refuse to see political thinking weaken to the point of seeing some consider these comments to be sexist. The term “prostitution” that I used on purpose obviously refers to its literary meaning which designates “degrading behavior”
, replied the elected official in a press release.
According to the Le Robert dictionary, this word has two meanings, one of which is literary:
“Action to debase, to debase oneself in degrading behavior”
.
“
Any honest mind will have understood this
”, assures the leader of the Nantes opposition, contacted by
Le Figaro
.
"Generate debate"
Behind this futile controversy, the president of the opposition group Mieux Vivre in Nantes assumes that she wanted to "
stir up the debate on the alliance between the Socialist Party and LFI which poses a problem for me
".
“
What I denounce is the weakening of speech and political thought.
I regret that Mrs. Rolland rushes into the arms of those who have a simplistic reach
”.
Laurence Garnier is deeply convinced that democracy must “
reconnect with a social project that is not simplistic
”.
In other words, to refute any alliance with
“Jean-Luc
Mélenchon who explains that everything is the fault of the rich, and Marine Le Pen who explains that everything is the fault of immigrants
”.
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The former municipal candidate, whose tweet was liked by Renaissance MP Mounir Belhamiti, ex-PS, regrets that a large political group like the Socialist Party was “misguided in the message of LFI
.
By opposing any alliance with the RN, she hopes for the reconstruction of a “republican right” which pays
“neither in the caricatures of Mrs. Le Pen nor in the immobility of Emmanuel Macron”.
It is for the latter that she had voted, not without reservation, in the second round of the presidential election in 2022 after having supported Valérie Pécresse.
