In a tweet published Friday morning, the former minister Nicolas Sarkozy attacks the "nonsense debited often in circus attire" Sibeth Ndiaye.

Two ministers and many MEPs LREM indignant on Friday a message published by Nadine Morano on Twitter, considered "racist", in which the MEP LR attacked the spokesman of the government, Sibeth Ndiaye.

"Openly racist" remarks

"The openly racist remarks of Nadine Morano are unworthy of a politician.You must withdraw them and apologize, under pain of prosecution.Support political and friendly Sibeth Ndiaye, on behalf of the deputies of the Republic on the march", s instigated the patron of the deputies of La République en marche, Gilles Le Gendre.

The overtly racist remarks of @nadine__morano are unworthy of a politician. You must withdraw them and apologize, otherwise you will be prosecuted. Political and friendly support to @SibethNdiaye, on behalf of MPs @LaREM_AN. https://t.co/AbRzJUhfYI

- Gilles Le Gendre (@GillesLeGendre) July 19, 2019

The Macronist MP referred to a tweet published Friday morning by the former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy, in which she attacked the "nonsense debited often in circus attire" Sibeth Ndiaye, described as "Senegalese very well born having obtained the French nationality 3 years ago ... obviously with big gaps on the French culture ".

Nadine Morano, re-elected MEP LR last May, concludes that the spokesman of the government was "unworthy of this government function in France."

"Do not say anything because she's black?" Answers Nadine Morano

Following the warning of Gilles Le Geendre, Nadine Morano asked herself in a new tweet: "Do not say anything because she is black, is that it?", Asking for her part to Sibeth Ndiaye an apology "to present to the French".

The Minister of Relations with Parliament, Marc Fesneau, for his part, denounced a "ordinary racism, ordinary slippages and amalgams, 'ordinary thought'. The "banality" that always leads to the worst. "Many MPs of the majority also supported Sibeth Ndiaye as much as they denounced the message of Nadine Morano, including Aurore Bergé, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Marie Lebec or Roland Lescure.

Nadine Morano had already been the subject of controversy on charges of racism, in 2015, when she said: "We are a Judeo-Christian country, General de Gaulle said it, white, who welcomes foreign people ". The sentence, which she did not want to remove, had cost her at the time the head of list of Regional in the Great East.