In The Parisian, the Minister of the Interior considers that this theory “contributes to the passage to the act of a certain number of militants of the extreme right”.
“Marine and Le Pen and Éric Zemmour are forms of accelerationists“And their speeches feed”bad reflexes“And”deep impulses», Told the Parisian the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin in an interview posted online on the newspaper’s website. “When Marine Le Pen and even more Éric Zemmour consider that it is necessary very, very quickly, to take power because we are going to be replaced a lot or that it will be the war of civilizations, there is a form of speech that legitimizes, I hope in spite of themselves, this theory“, He argued.
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Accelerationism “contributes to the act of a number of far-right activists», Recalls the Minister of the Interior. Friday, a municipal employee of Montauban, aged 46, was indicted and remanded in custody, especially for “provocation to an act of terrorism“. This man, who adhered to the so-called “accelerationist», Posted very violent messages on the encrypted messaging Telegram and explained that it was necessary to prepare, by arming, for the civil war.
Republicans “are no longer a party of government”
“A large part of the voters of the right and of the center no longer thinks like the LRs, which are no longer a government party, they have gone to the extreme.», Continues the Minister of the Interior in the columns of Parisian. This close to Xavier Bertrand, candidate for the nomination of the Republicans for the presidential election, reproaches the members of his former party for stalling their steps “not on those of their fathers, but on the footsteps of the far right“.
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“When no one disputes the theory of the great replacement, it is the opposite of Gaullism. When they come to organize debates to know whether or not they should work with Eric Zemmour who says that Marshal Pétain was a good guy, that the first names of the French have to be changed, it is the opposite of the Republican right. !», He enumerates. Asked about the best candidate of the right, Gérald Darmanin replies “Emmanuel Macron“And said to regret that”intelligent people, who know the complexity of affairs, having been ministers, who are patriots, like Valérie Pécresse, Xavier Bertrand, Michel Barnier, do not support the President of the Republic“.
LR members will nominate the right-wing candidate for the 2022 presidential election during the Party Congress December 1-4.