Gauthier Delomez
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10:43 a.m., January 13, 2022
The mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard, who supports the National Rally, underlined Thursday in Europe Matin his differences with the party candidate, Marine Le Pen, in the presidential election on the management of Covid-19. “On health issues, Marine Le Pen is totally wrong,” said Robert Ménard.
If he will call to vote for Marine Le Pen in the presidential election, the mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard does not forget the differences he has with the candidate of the National Rally. guest in Europe Morning Thursday, the support of the RN criticized the positions of the candidate on the management of the Covid-19. “On health issues, Marine Le Pen is totally wrong”, he judged at the microphone of Sonia Mabrouk, a few days after receiving the RN deputy in his city, in Béziers.
The vaccination pass is “the right answer”, assures Ménard
On Europe 1, Robert Ménard reaffirmed that the vaccine pass was “the right answer” to fight against Covid-19, and that he was even in favor of compulsory vaccination. Positions very different from those of Marine Le Pen who opposes the government’s strategy and the very philosophy of the vaccine pass. “If vaccination is the obligatory passage point to no longer be able to wear a mask, we go through it”, added the mayor of Béziers, who did not question the restrictions on freedom, unlike his left.
“On the side of my own camp, those who say that and who applaud (Vladimir) Poutine by saying that he is a great man, you have to be a little less stupid”, launched Robert Ménard, who relied on his past experience at Reporter Without Borders (RSF) and which he allowed to travel to countries where there are restrictions on freedoms.
Marine Le Pen “is also wrong on economic issues”
“I don’t agree with her, and I tell her publicly,” said the mayor of Béziers vis-à-vis Marine Le Pen, adding that the candidate “is also wrong on economic issues”. Despite these criticisms, the co-founder of RSF wanted to assure him of his support. “Who today seems the most desirable? (…) On the rest, she provides the answers which are those which my country needs”, he declared, returning to his past distancing from the candidate RN.