The mayor of Béziers and support of Marine Le Pen returned Robert Menard, Thursday April 14 on CNews, on the program of his candidate in the second round as well as the future of France.
Robert Ménard, in great shape, explained on CNews that he found the re-demonization that is set in motion against Marine Le Pen “unbearable”: “We can disagree with one or the other without doing of Marine Le Pen the new incarnation of the devil or evil. Known for his independence of speech and spirit, the mayor of Béziers added that he “disagrees with her on a certain number of points” while regretting that we have “the gift in France of transforming the political debate in civil war. »
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He also castigated the anti-RN call from the University of Nantes: “It’s scandalous. Can you imagine for a second if a head of a university called for Le Pen to vote against Macron’s ultraliberalism? It would be the revolution, in all the media, he would not stay long at the head of his university. “Ditto for artists and athletes, who have signed platforms against the candidate:” Artists I can not anymore. From the top of their miraculous seals, come and teach the people a lesson…Athletes too. Antoine Dupont, I have an admiration for him, I adore him, but does he and do they need to do this? I have the impression of finding myself in 2002, but Marine Le Pen is not her father. »
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This was followed by the question of constitutionality, Marine Le Pen often criticizing the weight that the Constitutional Council has in France. Robert Ménard said that “it poses a real question”, and continued: “The Constitutional Council has a weight that it did not have when it was created at the beginning of the Fifth Republic. The power should not be this Council but remain in politics […] But the answers [de Marine Le Pen] are they the right ones? I’m not always sure. »
Some substantive differences with the RN candidate
The mayor also pointed out some substantive differences with the RN candidate: “I am willing to be critical of Marine Le Pen, as on retirement where I do not agree because we will end up working until 65, the same for the ban on the wearing of the veil. Yes I agree to criticize it while voting for it, but I expect people to be less caricatural. He blasted those who say his program is ‘racist’ and claimed that, unfortunately for this party, ‘there are no political heavyweights around it’
Robert Ménard first attacked Marine Le Pen’s vision of foreign policy: “On foreign policy, she says things out of time, then she is in her party and she does as she wants”, while affirming “that ‘She is better prepared, she has worked better, she is calmer. She is better and has learned from her failures. Mr. Macron will have more difficulty. »
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And Frexit? Arlesian or possibility? “No, because it would complicate our relations with other countries. What she says about Germany is complicated, but to say that she wants to leave Europe, of course not. On Russia, it is neither audible nor acceptable. Putin is a dictator responsible for war crimes. But from there to reproach him for economic ties… ”
What about legislative? Can she ally with “Reconquest! »? Can she win the second round? “I hope that electorates will find themselves. Éric Zemmour’s excesses of language explain the 7% he made, and she must keep her distance. But voters are something else […] She is appeased in the face of a somewhat feverish power. It will be very, very complicated for her, but there is such anti-Macronism…”