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While Emmanuel Macron commemorated this Thursday the Call of June 18 made by General de Gaulle in 1940, Jean-Louis Debré points to the "solicitation" of certain political leaders, Thursday on Europe 1. Son of Michel Debré, Prime Minister General, great admirer of Charles de Gaulle for having grown up with him, the former president of the Constitutional Council also evokes the heritage of a "visionary" president, so coveted within the French political class.
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How would General de Gaulle react to the current political climate in France? For Jean-Louis Debré, "no one can say what he would have done". "Everyone claims to be General de Gaulle today. Because no one really embodies the future and the rally. They are both incapable of proposing ideas to the French," said the former president. of the National Assembly.
"He had this fantastic intuition to foresee the future"
And Jean-Louis Debré to underline the acts of bravery of General de Gaulle, at his eposque: "When he launched his Appeal of June 18, he showed a fantastic capacity to imagine that this war was going to become a world war, that France had to be placed on the winning side. He had this fantastic intuition to foresee the future. He was a visionary. "
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80 years later, the entire French political class is still fighting over the Gaullian heritage. Like Marine Le Pen who landed on the Ile de Sein on Wednesday, where a hundred resistance fighters met to reach Great Britain. While the leader of the National Rally is said to be Gaullian but not Gaullist, Jean-Louis Debré points to the lack of "dignity and seriousness" of Emmanuel Macron's opponent in the second round of the last presidential elections.
"We must not take the French for the ignorant"
"I do not have to judge, but sometimes indecency sometimes exceeds the imaginable. Let us be serious, a political party of extreme right, which fought all its life against the general de Gaulle, which welcomed in its ranks men who tried to assassinate de Gaulle and who claims today the inheritance of the general ... One should not take the French for ignorant. Too much is too much! " protested the French politician.