PCF presidential candidate Fabien Roussel on Thursday, February 17, described the program of far-right candidate Eric Zemmour as “little brown plagueand urged voters to “don’t be wrong with anger“.
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Asked on Cnews about the remarks of the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot, who estimated on Sunday that Eric Zemmour “made the jew of service for the antisemites” and “the extreme right which was only waiting for such a representative to free up speechFabien Roussel argued that he “will never talk like that“. “Eric Zemmour represents the little brown plague in our country, but I never qualify people according to their origins“, he explained, saying “prefer(er) to attack his project, his vision he has of France, which recalls that of collaboration, Vichy and Pétain“.
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Exhortation to “not be mistaken in anger”
This term “brown plague», «it’s a story, it’s fascism, it’s Pétain, it’s the blackshirts, and I know that Eric Zemmour refers to it and it’s serious and dangerous», Developed Fabien Roussel. By calling it “little brown pest», «I’m not talking about his size – that wouldn’t be good -, I’m talking about his program, and it’s a little brown plague his program“, he then insisted on BFMTV: “he rehabilitates Pétain, the one who set up the Jewish code during the War and who organized the roundup of the Vél d’Hiv’, (…), he dares to divide our fellow citizens according to their first name and to stigmatize, in doing this, our Muslim fellow citizens, who have built France in the same way as many of our French, Italian, Spanish fellow citizens, whatever their religion“.
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Eric Zemmourrepresents a threat” and “I want to explain it most sincerely to our voters“, added Fabien Roussel, urging them to”don’t be wrong with anger“. “They are angry and I understand their anger, but it will not bring hope by voting for the extreme right, for the Zemmour and the Le Pen“, he assured. The RN candidate Marine Le Pen is given the second round of the presidential election against Emmanuel Macron by the polls which credit her with some 17% of the voting intentions, ahead of Eric Zemmour, given at 14% and neck and neck with candidate LR Valérie Pécresse.
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