The member for the Oise called, Wednesday, candidates for the nomination of the party to overcome the influence of the extreme right polemicist Eric Zemmour on the public debate to give their overall vision of France to five months of the presidential election.
Le Monde with AFP
The Deputy of the Republicans (LR) Eric Woerth lamented, Wednesday, November 17, the importance taken by the themes related to national identity, safety and immigration in the public debate and between contenders of his party to the presidential investiture.
“In the preamp, all themes, moreover deeply drawn by [the far-right polemicist] Eric Zemmour, take a preponderant place and probably disproportionate compared to what they represent, even if they are Important, “said Woerth, Member of Parliament for the Oise and former budget minister and then work under the chairmanship of Nicolas Sarkozy, before the Association of Parliamentary Journalists (AJP).
Chairman of the National Assembly Finance Committee, Mr. Woerth considers that the next President of the Republic will have “to show how we stabilize and how to improve the state of the country’s public finances, (…) Taking commitments that will last this time whatever happens “. Recalling that it is not “stakeholder” of the race to the inauguration LR behind this or that candidate, that they are “all friends”, Mr. Woerth said that the contenders should give their “vision” From France to 2030 horizon and go “beyond the questions put by the journalists”. He lamented that LR lost “five years” to define a program and promote a candidate to wear it.
A “vision rather than televisions”
The five candidates for Inauguration LR – Xavier Bertrand, Valérie Pécresse, Michel Barnier, Eric Ciotti and Philippe Juvin – will be separated by a vote of the members at the party congress of the er at December 4th. During the second of the four debates organized before this deadline, broadcast on BFM-TV and RMC, Sunday, November 14, two-thirds of the time of debate were devoted to exchanges on immigration and safety, leaving little room for other themes planned – The place of France in the world and the purchasing power of the French have also been discussed.
“In a precampancy, you have to fix the vision you have from the country. What is France of 2030 and how do you have a candidate, this France, I contribute to the building,” he has Argue, pleading for a “vision rather than televisions”. “Everything revolves around a closed, fearful France, a pessimistic description of the country, we are at the edge of the civil war. (…) Do not describe a country of bisounours (…), but our predecessors on this beautiful land of France have settled it from much harder [problems] than ours and much more violent “, exposed Mr. Woerth.
“There are false debates, all these ideological debates around” Wokism “(…), all that interests only 0.5% of the population. Let’s stop spreading them in all directions, with bad Intellectual or intellectual devouted, let’s try to take back a little common sense and look at the talents that are ours and the reforms that must be done, “he still felt in front of the journalists.