Stéphane Tapie, one of Bernard Tapie’s four children, spoke about current political life, a few weeks before the first round of the presidential election.
This Wednesday, January 26, Bernard Tapie would have been 79 years old. One of his sons Stéphane was on the set of BFM TV to discuss the complex legacy of the ex-businessman. He took the opportunity to analyze current political life.
If his father Bernard entered politics, ephemeral and emblematic Minister of the City of François Mitterrand, the fifties is not attracted by this environment. “I would go with my ballot like any citizen. I would never go in there,” he said. “Unless Zemmour is on the way to winning. I’m joking!”.
“My duty is to vote, my right to break”
If the far-right polemicist or the frontist leader Marine Le Pen reaches the Elysée, he will make a radical decision: to leave. “I’m still not going to stay in a country where there is Zemmour or Le Pen president. It is my right as a citizen. My duty is to vote, my right to break”. He finds Eric Zemmour “very intelligent” and “brilliant” but, he tempered: “it’s not hard to be brilliant. The political debate is weak. (…) It’s poor. The debates of ideas are poor”.
In his eyes, there is a lack of “ideas” but also “of respect for policies between them”. “I understand why there are so few people who vote. They don’t respect each other so much, it freaks me out. “Renaud Muselier, a very close friend, you will never see me outside saying ‘tu’ to him and calling him by his first name. He is the president of the region,” he explained. He has the same behavior with Senator Samia Ghali, to whom he is also very close. “I think it would be nice a bit, to respect the functions. And already so that we citizens respect their functions, that they respect each other.
He denies a recent meeting between Bernard Tapie and Eric Zemmour
Stéphane Tapie also revealed that he was approached by politicians, without giving names, eager to surf on the popularity of Bernard Tapie and the emotion aroused by his death after years of fighting double cancer. He also denied that his father organized a meeting with Eric Zemmour in September. “If you had seen him in September I think he had other things to do than meet Zemmour. And the two or three who saw him will be able to confirm to you that he was in no condition to speak with Zemmour or anyone. Pointing to a “Zemmour fantasy” he adds: “(Olivier) Pardo, Zemmour’s lawyer), is a very good friend of mine. Frankly I would know and it would even have gone through him if they had wanted to meet.
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