The show lasted more than two hours. This Thursday evening, Jordan Bardella and Valérie Hayer, respective heads of the National Rally (RN) and Renaissance lists, debated on the set of our colleagues at BFMTV. The two candidates notably fought over solutions to the ultraviolence of young people.
Two opposing visions
Avoiding the gaze of her opponent by evoking the murder of Matisse, Valérie Hayer does not hesitate to go on the offensive. “I would like to recall the words of the father of Matisse. ‘Let’s not mix everything up. Pay attention to all the parties on the right or elsewhere who appropriate this kind of thing. It’s the dignity of a father facing the indignity of a camp, yours, Mr. Bardella,” she accuses.
Opposite, Jordan Bardella admits to seeing this drama as a social fact. “For years, you have turned a blind eye to this explosive cocktail between the collapse of state authority and lax migration which means that, today, immigration has become the worst fuel for violence in street and insecurity in our country”, he exclaims in front of his opponent. A link between immigration and insecurity contested by the head of the Renaissance list.
A subject that will be discussed with Gabriel Attal
“I do not essentialize migrants. I do not consider that in principle, a migrant is a delinquent,” she responds dryly to the head of the National Rally list. “There is an elephant in the living room. You are the only one who does not see it. There is a link today, no longer just obvious, but statistical, between anarchic immigration and insecurity,” replies then Jordan Bardella.
And the subject of hyperviolence, particularly among young people, should certainly be at the heart of the future tense debate between Jordan Bardella and the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal.