For Louis Aliot, this theme is “of great ambiguity” because “it pleases the most radical or folkloric elements, but installs in the minds of many a malaise”.
The RN mayor of Perpignan Louis Aliot, candidate for the presidency of his party, harshly criticized “the most determined followers of the ‘great replacement’» qualified as «identitarians“, Friday, in a forum at Opinion.
“The French have electorally condemned the worrying line carried by the most determined followers of the ‘great replacement’“, he says, a tackle in particular to the president of Reconquest!, Eric Zemmour, who essentially campaigned for the presidential and legislative elections on this theory of a replacement of European populations by a population of foreign origin.
“Cut the rope”
For Louis Aliot, this theme is “of great ambiguity” because “he is a fad who transforms his ambassadors into ‘right-wing Sandrine Rousseau’“, in reference to the Green MP. “It pleases the most radical or folkloric elements but installs in the minds of many a malaise“, and “leads inexorably to defeat, even blind violence“, he assures, condemning a formula”so widely used that it prevents any thoughtful and proportionate response to forty years of uncontrolled immigration“.
“We are not ‘identitarians’“, insists the elected official who is a challenger against Jordan Bardella in the race for the presidency of the National Rally. Jordan Bardella, already president – but only interim – of the RN, for his part has already publicly taken over the “great replacement theory“, in August 2021, while Marine Le Pen has expressed several times her circumspection of the expression and its concept. Louis Aliot also believes that “the French do not expect radical nostalgia» and that they have «rejected the excesses practiced by the National Front of another time“.
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“Marine Le Pen has always advocated a break with this approach, which is politically ineffective. It is now up to us to cut the cord of a tumultuous and ambiguous history which will allow our movement once and for all to reach its full maturity by speaking to French people of all origins and all religions.“, adds the one who had joined the youth organization of the National Front in the early 90s alongside Jean-Marie Le Pen.
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