During her first speech since the appointment of her government, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne denounced the “perfectly caricatural” side of the far right and the criticism of Pap Ndiaye.
Elisabeth Borne denounced the “perfectly caricatural” side of the far right which on Friday focused its criticism on the new Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye, accused by Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour of wanting to “deconstruct” the country.
“It’s perfectly caricatural, which does not surprise me from the people you mentioned”, underlined the Prime Minister on TF1, in reference to the head of the RN and the president of Reconquête!.
“Pape Ndiaye is a very committed Republican, someone who believes in the values of the Republic and that is obviously what he will carry as Minister of National Education”, she added.
Immediately after the nomination of Pap Ndiaye, a respected academic born to a Senegalese father and a French mother, the extreme right multiplied criticism.
“The appointment of Pap Ndiaye, an assumed indigenist, to National Education is the last stone in the deconstruction of our country, its values and its future,” said Marine Le Pen, presidential finalist, on Twitter.
“Elect as many deputies from the National Rally as possible to protect our youth from the worst ideologies!”, Added the leader of the RN.
For RN President Jordan Bardella, “Pap Ndiaye is a racialist and anti-cop activist”. “His appointment is an extremely worrying signal sent to French students within the National Education, already undermined by communitarianism. With this #reshuffle, Emmanuel Macron is accelerating the dislocation of the Nation”.
Strong criticism from the far right
Gilles Pennelle, RN head of federations, and Julien Odoul, spokesman for the RN, described the new minister, a historian specializing in the social history of the United States and minorities, as an “immigrationist activist”.
“An immigrationist activist to re-educate our children to ‘live together’ with migrants and deconstruct the history of France. This appointment goes beyond the bounds of provocation,” wrote Mr. Odoul.
“Emmanuel Macron said that the history of France had to be deconstructed. Pap Ndiaye will take care of it,” reacted the other far-right presidential candidate Eric Zemmour.
“He participated in meetings prohibited to whites, he is a real indigenous intellectual, a real woke”, added the ex-candidate of Reconquest! on CNews.
According to Mr. Zemmour, “it’s the whole history of France that will be revisited in the light of indigenism, woke ideology and Islamogauchism”. The Minister of Education “will be responsible for reformatting the minds of young French people to teach them that whites are eternally guilty, that blacks are victims and that we are a land of immigration and that we must above all continue to be”.
“The government of Macron? The clan of careerists. With a premium for leftism embodied by the new Minister of National Education: Pap Ndiaye, the promoter of minorities and migrants”, wrote the ex-LR and vice-president of Reconquest! William Peltier.