Facing the pike of the candidate of the right, Pierre Hurmic denounces “political” and “gutter” arguments.
Reading the Figaro Thursday morning, the EELV mayor of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic jumped up. One platform was particularly the object of his wrath: that of Valérie Pécresse. Two days before Christmas, the presidential contender LR is championing the values and cultural significance of Christmas for Europe against those she calls the “Wokists, indigenous people, (and the) green ideologues ”, which would be “The new craftsmen of this vast enterprise of making the French feel guilty.”
In this text, the city councilor of Bordeaux (Gironde) is directly targeted. “My indignation is also that of a Frenchwoman who notes that the same injunction to no longer be what we are is made to our people. It also targets the same symbols: didn’t the mayor of Bordeaux also want to dismiss Christmas by depriving the people of Bordeaux of their Christmas tree?“, Pretends to wonder Valérie Pécresse. Last year, in September 2020, Pierre Hurmic had indeed caused controversy by removing the Christmas tree from Place Pey Berland, qualifying it moreover “dead tree“.
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Faced with this attack, the mayor of Bordeaux wanted to retaliate. “It seems so far removed from reality that I cannot let these inaccuracies so above ground pass”, pin the ecologist. And take out the claws: “There are more interesting things to say than playing petty politics.” In the context of the presidential campaign, Pierre Hurmic even considers that Valérie Pécresse “Runs after Ciotti and Zemmour”. What to accuse him of being in “a gutter operation. ” And to refuse to undertake any “wokist” approach – “It is absurd and unworthy of someone who wants to be at the head of the state” -, inviting the president of the Ile-de-France region to “Come a little to the provinces”.
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If he acknowledges having done “A mistake in speaking of a dead tree», Pierre Hurmic does not understand why he was treated of“anti-christmas or anti-fir … “ Believing that “His opponents on the left reproach him for being too practicing Catholic”, he is exhausting “Lack of culture“Of the right which attacks it on its” non-respect of the Christian traditions “: the fir”is a secular act, not a religious one“.
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A remote-controlled platform?
In order not to arouse the same controversy as last year, the town hall handed over this year, in the center of the city, a work in the shape of a metal tree eleven meters high, made of glass and steel. “For me, the page of the Christmas tree has been turned. You really have to have a twisted mind to come back on that, it’s politics ”, squeaks the mayor of Bordeaux who believes that Valérie Pécresse did not make this forum at random. “She has Nicolas Florian in her team (predecessor and main opponent of Pierre Hurmic Editor’s note), he has every interest in fueling the controversy ”, concludes the chosen one.
Valérie Pécresse’s column was also a response to the controversy over the ban promoted in a Council of Europe guide to use the qualifier “Christmas” to evoke the holiday of December 25. The term was not considered “inclusive enough”. For the candidate of the right, Europe, “It is a common culture before being a common market.“