“There are no French people on paper”, reacted this Friday in the morning of CNEWS Stanislas Guérini, general delegate LREM, after the controversial remarks made by Valérie Pécresse during her meeting in Paris on February 13.
The candidate LR has since said she is the victim of a “Pécresse-bashing”, according to her orchestrated by “the Macronists” in order to discredit her. Valérie Pécresse has in particular been strongly criticized for having evoked the conspiracy theory of the “great replacement” and says she wants “French people at heart and not only French people on paper”. A speech generally used by far-right candidates.
Words “unbearable[s]»
“I hope that she will still not end up telling us that the advisers of the President of the Republic rigged her teleprompter in the speech she was able to give last Sunday”, reacted Stanislas Guérini. The LREM general delegate also believes that the term “French paper” is “unbearable”.
“There are no paper French […] There is no Frenchman whose nationality one could tear up like one tears up a sheet of paper. I’m sorry, but this vision is terrible. What is behind the paper French? The native French? Is that the implication?”
Believing that these words “were not put in [la] mouth” by Valérie Pécresse “by others than herself”, Stanislas Guérini concludes: “When we do politics, when we are destined for the highest functions in the country, we know that words have a meaning”.