In the “Journal du Dimanche”, the mayor of Nice, former RS, believes his old political family should “lead the response” against the extreme right-wing polemicist. For RS President of the Senate, “electoral phenomenon” Zemmour is the result of “renunciation” of the right on immigration and security.
Le Monde with AFP
Eric “Zemmour not de Gaulle, it is hardly his erasure”: the former mayor Republicans (LR) of Nice Christian Estrosi called Straight, a forum in Sunday newspaper (JDD) of 24 October, to “fight with all its might” the extreme right-wing polemicist.
Faced with the emergence of media “this version of the extreme right seasonally adjusted,” Mr Estrosi believes that “it would have been in the right, which it intends to siphon off voters, to lead the response” . But “it has unfortunately abandoned this fight,” he regretted.
“When I hear Eric Zemmour claim [de Gaulle] and say that rebuilt the RPR, I do not laugh. It’s indignation that overwhelms me,” wrote the aedile Nice. “Eric Zemmour claims that Petain saved the Jews of France. Shame on him,” Mr. Estrosi. Still not officially declared candidate, the polemicist is given by polling neck-and-neck with Marine Le Pen to compete in the second round.
“Eric Zemmour advocates confusion of lines and some in my old political family pact with this madness. There is no continuum between the Republican right and the extreme right, there is a irreversible difference in nature, “says the founder of the movement’s bold France. “He is the proponent of a racialized citizenship, rejecting the national community anyone who does not have the enough white skin. The right, if it had a little bit of courage, could and should have recalled the commitment of leaders RPR then UMP right to the ground, “argues Mr. Estrosi.
“Gaullists, there we must not simply say that we have nothing to do with him, nor with its anathemas, it is too little, judge the one who left in May LR, and sustains Emmanuel Macron . We must fight them with all our might, for the past, the name of the future. “
to Larcher, Zemmour is not racist
If also speaking in the columns of JDD , President RS Senate Gerard Larcher said he agreed that Eric Zemmour is not racist but “hystericises debate.”
Asked about whether Eric Zemmour was racist, Mr Larcher replies.. “No, but I do not like his way of rewriting history It hystericises debate It divides, it fractures, so that it must bring. ” According to the senator, “he damages the nation while he pretends to rehabilitate”, or “France, it can not be: you hate each other”
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However, Mr. Larcher judge that Mr. Zemmour “addresses real issues”, for example, “our integration capabilities and assimilation are saturated.” The parliamentarian also recognizes that it constitutes “an electoral phenomenon”. “It is a mirror that we tend millions of French who reproach us our sacrifice, especially on migration, insecurity and identity,” he says. In his view, “there would be neither Le Pen nor phenomenon phenomenon Zemmour better if we had addressed these issues.”
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