Marine Le Pen rejected on Sunday on LCI the idea of ethnic statistics, a prelude according to the president of the National Rally to "positive discrimination in the American way", and risking leading to "division" and "conflict" in the country. "We are going to set up in the American way the calculation of people based on their color? It is not my vision. I have a deeply republican vision," said the former presidential candidate. Government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye suggested Saturday to reopen "in a peaceful and constructive manner the debate around ethnic statistics", banned in France.
According to the president of the RN, "they are used to prepare positive discrimination in the American way" with for example "points", according to the skin color, to enter the university. "I know that this leads to division, conflict, violence" and "I want peace in my country, serenity, unity", insisted the member for Pas-de-Calais.
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"We must fight against all racism"
As for the idea put back on the table by the Minister of the City Julien Denormandie to delete the word "race" from the preamble of the Constitution, Marine Le Pen tackled it: "it is indeed an En Marche vision". "Deleting the word will remove the evil?" She asked.
In the protests against racism and police violence on Saturday, Marine Le Pen saw "a surge of hatred towards the police, and therefore towards the Nation".
Regarding the banner deployed in Paris by identity activists and bearing the inscription "Justice for the victims of anti-white racism", she held that "we must fight against all racism", while "we have the feeling that the victims of anti-white racism, which exist, are swept away. " Finally, Marine Le Pen protested against the deterioration of statues and monuments linked to French colonial history or the slave trade, in the sights of anti-racist activists: "there is no question of unbolting the statues, of rewriting the story".