Nadine Morano: her embarrassing remark on Jean Castex's accent: Femme Actuelle Le MAG

Nadine Morano does not have her tongue in her pocket. Known for her many slippages, the European deputy and member Les Républicains was talked about again on Monday July 6. While she was the guest of Big mouths of RMC, she took the opportunity to give her opinion on Jean Castex, the new Prime Minister, who replaced Edouard Philippe, elected mayor of Le Havre. Politics notably skidded concerning the accent of the new right-hand man of Emmanuel Macron. "I love the accent of Jean Castex, I feel like I'm on vacation, I think it's great. I loved that of Charles Pasqua. But that's not the subject, we don't judge a person on his accent, " she said, causing astonishment on the set.

Jean Castex victim of glottophobia?

Since his appointment to Matignon, the Prime Minister from Gers, has been criticized on social networks because of his accent from the southwest. Sure BFM TV, Michel Feltin-Palas, editor in chief at The Express and co-author of the book I have an accent, so what? returned to this discrimination based on language, also called glottophobia, Monday, July 6. "Poor Jean Castex, simply because he does not speak with the traditional accent of power has been discredited as if there was an equivalence between accent and competence. It is penalizing. Everyone must be judged about what she says and not how she talks, " he said. And to continue: "It is an issue of power and it is the bourgeoisie of Ile-de-France which has succeeded in imposing its way of speaking and immediately discrediting anyone who does not speak in the same way."

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