The candidate LR, criticized for having mentioned the term “great replacement”, denied Thursday any “ambiguity” vis-à-vis the far right and denounced “the unhealthy game of the macronists”.
Asked about LCI about possible ambiguities, Valérie Pécresse assured that “there is none, and there never has been. What ambiguity?she asked. “My whole journey says so. Stop, stop the witchcraft trials!“, she urged, claiming to be”the Republican antidote to this great replacement theory“. The candidate has been widely criticized since her meeting on Sunday for having mentioned this theory, and for having also said she wanted to “French people at heart, not just French people with papers“.
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She argued Thursday that this expression of “French papers», «it is not at all the discourse of the extreme right; the discourse of the extreme right is “Native French”it’s not at all the same as minewhich is to say “let’s all be united“, she defended. Asked to know if she was not however under the tutelage of her lieutenant Eric Ciotti, with very right-wing positions, she denied, putting on the contrary into question “the unhealthy game of macronists“. “What the macronists want, what Emmanuel Macron wants, is to come face to face with the extremes, to demonize all his opponents and make believe that all his opponents are extreme“.
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On the contrary, “I am the alternation, I am neither Macron nor Zemmour, I am the third way, I am the republican order and I am the freedom and progress to which the French aspire“. “I will not resign myself to this Macron / Zemmour duel“, because “to vote Le Pen or to vote Zemmour is to have Macron at the end“, she insisted. On immigration issues, she reiterated her proposal not to give any visa to the “country of origin which does not take back its illegal immigrants», as well as that of establishing quotas. “Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen say “zero immigration”, it is not possible, it does not work. They say “remigration”it is not possible, it will not work“. As for Emmanuel Macron,today he is powerless” on migratory subjects”, she criticized.
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