Olivier Faure assured Sunday his opposition to “all forms of communitarianism” and he harshly tackled the criticisms formulated internally after the agreement with LFI for the legislative elections.
The boss of the PS Olivier Faure assured Sunday his opposition to “all forms of communitarianism” and he harshly tackled the criticisms formulated internally after the agreement with LFI for the legislative elections. “We are republicans, secularists and we are going to fight against all forms of fundamentalism and communitarianism”, affirmed Mr. Faure to the Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI. “There are sometimes suspicions, in such and such a municipality, of mayors who will flatter communitarianism, and this must be condemned”, he affirmed, rejecting the term of Islamo-leftism “which rather comes from the right and the extreme right to disqualify part of the left”.
But it is also necessary, according to him, “to defend a Muslim community which is always subsidized, ostracized when we do not know very well what we blame them for”. The boss of the PS said he was “against the burkini which is an instrument of propaganda” but “it has nothing to do with secularism” which “does not impose the clothing police”.
“The setbacks of the PS do not date from a few days”
As for the separatism law, “it was a communication law, which did not change anything in substance, in appearance” and which “can very well be repealed without any difficulty” Returning to the internal criticisms of the agreement with LFI, coming in particular from François Hollande, Mr. Faure underlined that “the setbacks of the PS do not date from a few days” and recalled, without naming him, that “a former president was not a candidate for his own succession “. “There is also a new generation” of mayors and presidents of departments “who approve of this direction”, he added, assuring: “I did not see what was the intellectual contribution of those who today today come to complain saying that we haven’t worked”. “We should now talk to the French and the French and stop being in this trench warfare”, he added, believing that “the French are disgusted by these rear guard fights” .
Because “there are people who want to know if tomorrow they will be able to feed their children, dress them, give them a future, the rest is a joke”, he said, assuring that “we are there to tell them ‘we heard you, we understood you, and now we are fighting for you'”.