New recruit to the National Rally from the right, Malika Sorel-Sutter considers herself the victim of invective from her former political family.
At the announcement, on Sunday, of his appointment in second position on Jordan Bardella's list for the Europeans, the president of the Republicans Éric Ciotti pointed out on CNews
the "opportunism
" of the former support of François Fillon.
“I don’t look at what’s on the RN list.
I hope we have a list of competent, rooted men and women who will defend France,”
he declared.
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“I took it as an insult”
A reference to “rooting” which deeply “
struck
” Malika Sorel-Sutter.
“As a child of immigration, I took it as an insult
,” said the former member of the High Council for Integration and its secularism mission under Nicolas Sarkozy.
Born in France to Algerian parents, having lived around fifteen years in Algeria before settling in France, the essayist sees in this choice of words proof that
“for certain people, whatever the children of immigration do , they are not considered French
.
And to wonder about the substance of the thoughts of the deputy for Alpes-Maritimes:
“What roots is he talking about when, as President Sarkozy said, I myself am the symbol of unity ?»
Committed to the RN to “
participate in the French recomposition
”, Malika Sorel-Sutter estimated that, unlike the Republicans, “
the RN is a party which welcomes all French people in heart and mind
”.