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News of the day: Valérie Pécresse tries to justify the use of the conspiratorial expression “great replacement”
It was a high-risk meeting for Valérie Pécresse. Under pressure following a week marked by defections and criticism in her own camp – like the words of Rachida Dati – the candidate of the Republicans (LR) wanted to relaunch with her first major campaign meeting, organized at the Zénith from Paris, Sunday 13 February.
The president of the Ile-de-France region notably provoked controversy following having taken up the conspiracy and racist theory of the “great replacement”, thought up by the far-right writer Renaud Camus and regularly taken up by Eric Zemmour. “In ten years, will we still be the seventh power in the world? Will we still be a sovereign nation or an auxiliary of the United States, a counter of China? Will we be a united nation or a fragmented nation? Faced with these vital questions, there is no fatality. Neither the “big replacement” nor the “big downgrade”. I call you with a start »said Mr.me Pécresse during a speech where she appeared uncomfortable.
“I do not resign myself, precisely, to the theories of Eric Zemmour and the theories of the extreme right, because I know that another way is possible, she justified on RTL, Monday morning. That’s what I said yesterday and everyone makes me say the opposite. It’s a sentence I said ten times in the primary and all the commentators who use it have memories of periwinkles. » During the second debate before the holding of the congress of Republicans, in mid-November, Mme Pécresse had, in fact, already used this formula in conclusion. “Tonight, following ten years of immobility and bad choices, it is up to us to take back our destiny. I am convinced that we are condemned neither to the “great downgrading” nor to the “great replacement”.she said then.
On the right, the tenors of the party tried to unite to defend their candidate. Asked Monday morning on BFM-TV, Eric Ciotti estimated: “The path that was drawn [dimanche], that was the meaning of Valérie Pécresse’s phrase, it’s [de ne pas] to be (…) resigned to the decline that Emmanuel Macron has brought, has embodied and incarnates. (…) We cannot limit ourselves to the observation made by Eric Zemmour, [qui] has a very pessimistic view of the future; we have an optimistic vision”, he defended. At the same time on LCI, another unfortunate contender for the LR congress, Michel Barnier, assured that Mme Pécresse had “Used that word to say she didn’t want it. No misunderstanding possible. She says she don’t want [pas] of the theories of M. Zemmour”.
Anne Hidalgo ends her four-day trip to the West Indies this Monday with a stroll through the streets of Fort-de-France, capital of Martinique. The socialist candidate for the presidential election took the opportunity to criticize the use of the conspiratorial and racist concept of “great replacement” by Valérie Pécresse on Sunday. According to Mme Hidalgo, these words are “serious”. “I say it from Martinique, the land of Aimé Césaire, who carried this message of tolerance and recognition of the identity of the other, not to be afraid of it but to make it a collective force. »
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The sentence of the day: the Radical Left Party loose Christiane Taubira
“The PRG withdraws from the campaign of Christiane Taubira”
New blow for Christiane Taubira, lagging behind in the collection of sponsorships. Guillaume Lacroix, president of the Radical Left Party (PRG), the only party to officially support the candidacy of the former Keeper of the Seals, announced on Monday that “the PRG is getting[tait] back » of the campaign of M.me Taubira. “I salute this momentum, this breath that is created around a candidacy on the left, it is not so often”declared Mr. Lacroix in front of the cameras at the end of a press conference, before tempering: “However, the mandate of the PRG was a mandate other [celui du rassemblement à gauche, qui n’a pas eu lieu] and therefore the PRG as such is set back. »
The president of the movement confirmed that he intended to send his sponsorship to the winner of the popular Primary and affirmed on several occasions that the elected representatives of the PRG might, on an individual basis, “provide their support, their assistance, their sponsorship to Christiane Taubira”. The structure of the small left party will therefore no longer be put forward for Mme Taubira, which had, Thursday, February 10, 47 sponsorships validated by the Constitutional Council.
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The campaign in the archives of “Le Monde”
February 14, 2012, the journalist Anne-Sophie Mercier evokes the charge of François Bayrou once morest the remarks of Nicolas Sarkozy. At the time, the outgoing head of state is trying to reproduce the strategy he deployed during the 2007 campaign, when he managed to seduce the electorate of the National Front (FN) by hardening his speech. This time, Mr. Sarkozy is proposing a referendum on the right of deportable foreigners as well as on the unemployed. A red line crossed for Mr. Bayrou, who speaks during a forum at the Maison de la chimie, in Paris. “This referendum, on this subject, politicians should not lend themselves to it, statesmen should forbid it”denounced the candidate of the Democratic Movement (MoDem), who came third in 2007.
“Chaban and his new society, de Gaulle and participation, the liberals who place such a high value on the wisdom of the law”all these, therefore, “cannot be silent when they see what springs we want to appeal to”, he said, addressing voters on the right. For Mr. Bayrou, Mr. Sarkozy’s proposal is formulated to dredge “the great voice of the FN”in case Mme Le Pen might not be a candidate. At the time, the mayor of Pau wanted the recent president of the FN to be able to gather the five hundred sponsorships required in order to “allow pluralism to exist”. Ten years later, Mr. Bayrou defends the same idea. He recently put a form online for candidates above 10% of the voting intentions who are having difficulty gathering the necessary sponsorships.
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Agenda for Tuesday 15 February
Displacements. Marine Le Pen, the candidate of the National Rally (RN), is expected in Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne) for a trip on the theme of the French language and the Francophonie. Valérie Pécresse goes to the Wine Paris & Vinexpo Paris 2022 show at the Porte de Versailles, in Paris. At 4 p.m., Emmanuel Macron, who is still not an official candidate, inaugurates the Cyber Campus. It is a thirteen-story tower located in the heart of the La Défense business district which brings together private and public players in the fight once morest cybercrime.
Debate. At 7 p.m., at the Sorbonne, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the candidate of La France insoumise, will debate with students.