LIVE – Comments on unaccompanied minors: condemned, Eric Zemmour “does not regret them”

Anne Hidalgo was invited by LCI to discuss Eric Zemmour’s new conviction by the courts yesterday. She denounced her candidacy, which she never considered “legitimate”, pointing to a “character fabricated by the media”.

She described him as a “far-right Holocaust denier, condemned and reconvicted for his remarks”.

The socialist candidate recalled her desire to make a payment – ​​one-off – of 5,000 euros to young people reaching 18 years of age. “It is a measure of equality and justice, and of confidence in young people”, she commented, adding that the proposal was intended to “enable them to be able to consider a professional or educational project”.

This measure, included in a social program which it has estimated at 14 billion euros in total and approximately three billion with regard to this device specifically, would be universal: “It is a measure addressed to all young people, especially those of the middle class”.

Asked about the controversy born Monday evening after the revelation by Mediapart of the presence of Jean-Michel Blanquer in Ibiza, during the end-of-year holidays, when he announced a new health protocol at school at the last minute, Eric Zemmour says “not to ask for the resignation” of the Minister of National Education.

“It won’t change anything, the real responsible is Emmanuel Macron,” said Eric Zemmour.

In very bad shape in the voting intentions, Anne Hidalgo guaranteed that she did not intend to abandon her campaign. “The French tell me: ‘Don’t let go of anything'”, she said this morning on LCI. “Polls don’t reach me,” she later added.

She thus summarized the project that she intends to continue to embody: “This country needs a republican alternative but also much more social, fairer.”

“I am the one who accepts the risks of a popular nomination”, insists Christiane Taubira, on France Inter.

But the presidential candidate in the context of this citizen investiture is much less clear on the question of her withdrawal in favor of the winner of the Popular Primary, if she were to lose.

“Primary, for no one, does it mean going home”, underlines the one who indicates not to be “in these logics”, but rather in “a logic of gathering”.

And to question: “Why do you want to ask [le débat] in terms of withdrawing?”

Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris and socialist presidential candidate, commented on LCI on Mediapart’s revelations about Jean-Michel Blanquer’s recent stay in Ibiza, at the very moment when the Minister of National Education was enacting a new health protocol in school.

“We must judge him on his acts as a minister”, she first observed, assuring that on this point “he had shown all his shortcomings”. “He showed all his contempt for teachers,” she explained.

She also mocked “a protocol sent the day before the start of the school year without telling anyone beforehand” and “to learn that he is doing it from Ibiza it shows his lightness, his casualness”.

“The situation has gotten bogged down,” regrets Christiane Taubira on France Inter, about the union of the left.

The one who said she wanted to register for the presidential election as part of the popular Primary deplores the “people who calculate the next deadline”, recalling that the other left-wing candidates are, according to her, “convinced that the union is indispensable, but that union is only behind you.”

This is the reason why she explains that she did not join a candidate, whether it was the ecologist Yannick Jadot or the socialist Anne Hidalgo. “My consistency is total (…) By choosing to support, I would have chosen to consolidate these postures”, supports the one who claims to have contacted them to move forward on the question.

Guest of BFMTV-RMC this Tuesday morning, the day after he was sentenced to a fine of 10,000 euros for incitement to racial hatred for his remarks on unaccompanied foreign minors, Eric Zemmour said he “absolutely does not regret” his remarks and continues to denounce “political justice”.

“I did not know that unaccompanied foreign minors were a race”, eludes the presidential candidate. “Justice wants to prohibit me from linking immigration and delinquency”, estimates.

“I am not here to lecture or to judge the feelings of each other or of the French”, reacted this Tuesday Gabriel Attal on CNews, the day after the revelations of Mediapart according to which Jean-Michel Blanquer was in Ibiza at the beginning January when the new health protocol at school was announced.

“The rule set by the government with regard to holidays is that you have to be contactable at all times, at your task, I have no reason to think that this was not the case for Jean-Michel Blanquer , who was also with us on December 27 at the Elysée for the exceptional Council of Ministers which had been held”, continued the government spokesperson.

“I am the spokesperson for the government, I recall the rule which is fixed, what matters is that the ministers are at their task”, insisted Gabriel Attal.

The socialist presidential candidate, mayor of Paris, presents this Tuesday morning at 11 a.m. her campaign chart.

The communist presidential candidate, who wants to “defend the steak of the French”, goes this Tuesday morning to the school of butchery in Paris.

>> He will answer questions from BFMTV at 11 a.m.

On the eve of Emmanuel Macron’s speech to the European Parliament, as part of the French presidency of the European Union (PFUE), the rebellious presidential candidate presents at 5 p.m. in Strasbourg, at the European Parliament, the strategy to raise European obstacles to the implementation of the Common Future.

On the eve of Emmanuel Macron’s speech in the European Parliament, as part of the French presidency of the European Union (PFUE), the candidate of the National Rally gives this Tuesday at 11 a.m. a press conference on the PFUE in Paris.

Nearly one in two French people predicts a victory for outgoing President Emmanuel Macron in the presidential election in April, according to our Elabe Opinion 2022 poll for BFMTV. At this stage, the Head of State is not officially a candidate for re-election.

14% of those questioned believe that Valérie Pécresse could win the ballot.

>> Find our full article

The far-right presidential candidate will answer questions from Apolline de Malherbe.

In the rest of the morning interviews:

7:20 a.m., RFI: Benjamin Lucas, spokesperson for Yannick Jadot’s campaign

7:40 am, RTL: Guillaume Peltier, ex-LR who became spokesperson for Eric Zemmour

7:45 am, Radio J: Jean-Michel Fauvergue, LREM deputy for Seine-et-Marne

7:50 am, France Inter: Christiane Taubira, presidential candidate

8:15 a.m., South Radio: Alexis Corbière, rebellious MP for Seine-Saint-Denis

8:15 a.m., CNews: Gabriel Attal, government spokesman

8:30 a.m., LCI: Anne Hidalgo, socialist presidential candidate

8:30 am, France Info: Clément Beaune, Secretary of State for European Affairs

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