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Macron reframes Borne after his speech against the RN, “heirs of Pétain”
POLITICS – Pétain, bad move. Emmanuel Macron took over his Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, without naming her, this Tuesday, May 30 during the Council of Ministers. Several participants actually report that the head of state spoke at length on the strategy to adopt to counter the far right, a clear reference to the words used by the head of government.
Spoiler: the presidential vision differs markedly from that reflected by the recent exit of the Matignon tenant. Élisabeth Borne indeed estimated, Sunday, May 28, in an interview with Radio J, that the National Rally was a “ Pétain’s heir party », using the terms of a question that was put to him.
Either all that should not be done, according to the President of the Republic, who did not hesitate to make it understood to his ministers. Even if it means using very unkind words with regard to Élisabeth Borne.
According to several media, Emmanuel Macron has effectively explained that the fight against Marine Le Pen can no longer be done with words ” from the 1990s that no longer work. “It must pass, according to him, by the” real “, THE ” concrete “, THE ” background and inconsistencies by pounding, for example, the programmatic errors of the Lepenists.
“The fight no longer goes through moral arguments”
“The fight against the far right no longer involves moral arguments. We will not be able to make millions of French people who voted for her believe that they are fascists “, in particular struck the Head of State, as confirmed by several participants. A clear reference to the offensive of its Prime Minister, daughter of a resistance fighter deported to Auschwitz, against the far-right party. Still according to media accounts, Elisabeth Borne did not react to these spikes.
Two days earlier, the tenant of Matignon had however not minced words with regard to the Lepenist movement, whose first political office was notably composed of François Brigneau, who joined the Militia of the Vichy government on 6 June 1944, or Pierre Bousquet, a volunteer in the Charlemagne division, which brought together French Waffen SS.
“I think you shouldn’t trivialize your ideas, your ideas are always the same. So now, the National Rally is putting the forms in it, but I continue to think that it is a dangerous ideology”she judged, protesting against any form of “trivialization”, and assuming on the contrary a link between the party of Jordan Bardella and the head of the Vichy regime which collaborated with Nazi Germany.
A tirade which angered the representatives of the far-right party… And the development of Emmanuel Macron, who had already estimated in the past that it was necessary “respond to the challenges of the country” (economic or migratory) to stem the rise of the National Rally. A strategy that has yet to prove itself: In five years of the Macronist presidency (2017-2022), the National Rally has garnered almost 3 million additional votes.
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