"The LRs are no longer a government party as they have gone to the extreme", tackle Gérald Darmanin

"The LRs are no longer a government party as they have gone to the extreme", tackle Gérald Darmanin

“A large part of right-wing and center voters no longer think like the LRs, which are no longer a government party, as they have gone to the extreme”. The attack is signed Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, in the columns of Parisian. This close friend of Xavier Bertrand, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, criticizes the members of his former party for stalling their steps “not on those of their fathers, but on the steps of the extreme right”.

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“When no one disputes the theory of the great replacement, it is the opposite of Gaullism. When they manage to organize debates to find out whether or not they should work with Éric Zemmour who says that Marshal Pétain was a good guy, that the first names of the French must be changed, it is the opposite of the Republican right !”, he enumerates. Asked about the best candidate from the right, Gérald Darmanin answers “Emmanuel Macron” and says he regrets that “intelligent people, who know the complexity of business, for having been ministers, who are patriots, like Valérie Pécresse, Xavier Bertrand, Michel Barnier , do not support the President of the Republic”.

Zemmour and Le Pen, "accelerationists"

“Marine and Le Pen and Éric Zemmour are forms of accelerationists” and their speeches feed “bad reflexes” and “deep impulses”, also declared to the Parisian the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin in an interview put in place. line on the newspaper's website. "When Marine Le Pen and even more Éric Zemmour consider that we must very, very quickly take power because we are going to be replaced or because it is going to be a war of civilizations, there is a form of discourse that legitimizes , I hope in spite of them, this theory”, he argued.

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Accelerationism "contributes to the passage to the act of a certain number of far-right activists", recalls the Minister of the Interior. Friday, a municipal employee of Montauban, aged 46, was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, in particular for "provocation to an act of terrorism". This man, who adhered to the so-called "accelerationist" trend, published very violent messages on the encrypted Telegram messaging system and explained that it was necessary to prepare, by arming oneself, for the civil war.

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