The Prime Minister sent a tackle to Marine Le Pen’s party on Tuesday. Elisabeth Borne, who does not have an absolute majority in the National Assembly, assured that she “would not seek the votes of the National Front” because “in fact”, the far-right party ” does not share” the values of the Republic.
“I will not seek the votes of the National Front” (now National Rally), declared the Prime Minister during her first session of questions from deputies to the government. She was responding to Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally deputies, who asked her to “execute the obligations to leave the territory” (OQTF) for foreigners, “whose application today remains 90% a dead letter “.
A “string of pearls”
“There will always be something that will come between us, it’s called values,” said the head of government. “My DNA, my backbone is called the Republic. So yes, I’ll tell you again, Madame Le Pen, my identity is freedom, it’s equality, it’s fraternity, it’s secularism. And as Prime Minister, it is around these values that I want to unite and only around them”.
“And these values, Madame Le Pen, you may try to appropriate them, I am convinced that, in fact, you do not share them”, she concluded. Acting RN President Jordan Bardella in return lamented that Elisabeth Borne “threads pearls, banalities when speaking of the values of the Republic” and that “behind there is nothing”. “If we do not question the immigration policy which has become out of control in France, we will not eradicate insecurity”, insisted Jordan Bardella on BFMTV. Before concluding: “the insults of the executive, it does not prevent us from sleeping”.