The statements of this close to Laurent Wauquiez on the Petain Marshal’s policy shocked his party colleagues the Republicans.
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The Lyon right is in the crisis, because of the ambivalent remarks on the Vichy regime held by Etienne Blanc, Senator The Republicans (LR) of the Rhône and former candidate at the Town Hall of Lyon. Pascal Blache and Pierre Oliver, Miscellaneous Mayors Right and LR of 6 e and 2 e Arrondissements of Lyon, have requested the resignation of Mr. Blanc of the right opposition group Center and Independent, the Municipal Council. “An irreconcilable dispute opposes the group’s president and the vast majority of its members,” said the two elected officials in a release issued on Friday, November 5th.
The breakup follows an ultimate meeting, held on Thursday night. “Etienne Blanc was summoned before the group, we asked him to apologize and withdraw his remarks. He was not clear in his answers,” says an elected Lyonnais who participated in the exchange of a time. “He can not embark on this adventure, that he leaves alone,” adds Pierre Oliver.
For several weeks, Etienne Blanc distille by tweets and allusions his attraction for the ideas of Eric Zemmour. Without calling into question the theory of “great replacement”, the former Mayor of Divonne-les-Bains (Ain) says that the former journalist poses “good questions”, and that his party would take a risk not to Treat frontally. The honorable senator crossed a CAP, Sunday, October 31, in an article of the JDD, devoted to his ambiguous position in this pre-presidential period. “In signing the armistice, we did not give the Jews the means of protection which for two years allowed to flee the Nazi regime? I can not answer,” said Etienne Blanc in the columns of the weekly. The formula passes very badly in the capital of resistance.
The memory of Charles Millon
Old alternate from Charles Millon in the Ain, then right arms of the President of the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Laurent Wauquiez during the previous Regional Officer, Etienne Blanc revives the nightmare of the right Lyonnaise, durably leaded by the alliance Mr. Millon with elected representatives of the National Front after the 1998 regional elections. Contact, Etienne Blanc did not wish to follow up. The former candidate at the Town Hall of Lyon published a statement, Thursday, November 4, in which he hopes “Clores a controversy [‘he] judges unfounded”. “As I explicitly indicated, Vichy’s anti-Semitic decrees do not distinguish between French and foreign Jews and I recover the words of Eric Zemmour,” said Senator Lr.
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