In the plane returning from Israel, Emmanuel Macron denounced "the extraordinarily guilty political speeches" which claim that France has become a dictatorship. "Go to a dictatorship, and you will see," continued the president at the microphone of Radio J, aimed at those who justify the violence to combat his policy.
"Today is installed in our society - and in a seditious way, by extraordinarily guilty political speeches -, the idea that we would no longer be in a democracy, that a form of dictatorship would have settled", accuses the president in this interview broadcast on Friday morning. And to launch: "But go into dictatorship! A dictatorship is a regime where a person or a clan decides the laws. A dictatorship is a regime where you don't change the leaders, never. If France is that, try the dictatorship and you will see! Dictatorship justifies hatred. Dictatorship justifies violence in order to get out of it. But there is a fundamental principle in democracy: respect for others, the prohibition of violence, hatred to be fought ”.
"We are a democracy"
According to Emmanuel Macron, "all those who today, in our democracy, are silent on this subject, are the accomplices, today and for tomorrow, of the weakening of our democracy and our Republic. "Asked about the violence, the head of state ruled that" those who carry this violence, those who, with cynicism sometimes, encourage it, those who silence any reproach that must be forgotten one very simple thing: we are a democracy ”.
Invited on RMC and BFMTV to say who was targeted by the presidential remarks, government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye assured that there was no question for Emmanuel Macron to "cast anathema on so and so". She reported having heard herself "a union official from SUD who justified a form of violence in the demonstrations", or "local CGT officials".
"All democracies" are in crisis
In the political sphere, she continued, "especially in La France insoumise, you have people who basically support the idea that there would be a" regime "that would impose its law on the rest of the population. "On Radio J, Emmanuel Macron stressed that" in a democracy, we have a duty of respect towards those who represent and vote for this law, because precisely, we have the power to revoke them. We have a ban on hate, because we have the power to change them! "
Asked when he returned from Israel where he participated in the commemorations of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi camp on Thursday, the French president also clarified his analysis of anti-Semitism, which he linked to the economic and social crisis. "All Western democracies are experiencing a crisis, and it is a crisis that is exacerbated by the great contemporary fears," he said, citing digital transformation and climate change.
According to him, "anti-Semitism is the most advanced form, each time the most radical of fear of the other". In an exchange with a Figaro journalist on board the plane, the president described anti-Semitism as "a passageway between the extremes" of the right and the left.
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