Aurélien Pradié (LR) and Jean-Paul Garraud 5RN), two candidates for the regional elections, had a heated argument on the sidelines of a political program from France 3 Occitanie.

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  • Sunday, the political program of France 3 Occitanie was dedicated to the right, in the presence of the candidates for the regional, Aurélien Pradié (LR) and Jean-Paul Garraud (RN).

  • After a lively debate on set, the two candidates had a backstage altercation, leading a journalist to intervene between the two men.

  • The LR candidate denounces the attitude and methods of his rival RN, when on social networks supporters of Marine Le Pen's party accuse him of wanting to make the buzz.

"Where is the right going?

“Was the theme of the program“ Dimanche en politique ”broadcast on March 21 on France 3 Occitanie.

During the recording, two days earlier, the debate had been lively on the set between the deputy of Lot, Aurélien Pradié (LR), and Jean-Paul Garraud (RN), both candidates for the regional elections next June.

But it was behind the scenes that the duel degenerated.

Information unveiled by Aurélien Pradié in a tweet posted on Sunday.

At the end of a debate on FR3 Occitanie, RN JPGarraud and his campaign manager sank into insult and physical aggression.

Journalists and security had to intervene.

Surrealist.

The varnish cracks quickly.

These agitators deceive the voters.

The sterile dead end.

- Aurélien Pradié (@AurelienPradie) March 21, 2021

A journalist intervenes

“During the debate, I wanted to show that I had no desire to merge with the National Rally, I recalled the Garraud amendment which wanted to weaken the rights of women while I am fighting to defend them in the Assembly.

As I left the set, I heard him shout and say "I was told he was a little asshole".

I turned around and told him he had the right to be hysterical, but that I wouldn't tolerate being insulted.

He continued to call me lousy, ”says Aurélien Pradié to

20 Minutes

.

Words and a first act confirmed by the presenter of the channel, Laurent Dubois.

But far from stopping there, the clash continued in the corridor of the public channel, "the tension has further increased to the point that we had to intervene physically to separate the two protagonists", explained the journalist this Monday on the air.

While the RN candidate goes to make-up removal, according to Aurélien Pradié, a member of Jean-Paul Garraud's team approached him by saying "you, we have to calm you down", before leaving the hall by the security of France 3. This is contested by the candidate of the RN for whom his campaign manager would have simply said "Hold on

", He indicated to the

Parisian

.

And to add on Twitter that the number 3 of the Republicans had only to file a complaint.

This individual who accuses me of threats, of aggression, of being "parachuted" was not even born when, as a young examining magistrate, I was fighting against delinquency in Toulouse.


Let him file a complaint and we'll see which is ridiculous!

https://t.co/0af7vrBcir

- Jean-Paul GARRAUD (@JPGarraud) March 21, 2021

“Well-known FN methods: intimidation, insults, violent attitudes… As with regard to me during meetings or at my home, in my private life… Yes, the extreme right attacks women, their rights, including that of having access to their body!

», Reacted for his part the socialist president of the region, Carole Delga, after the unveiling of this altercation between his two adversaries.

If on the side of the RN we denounce a voluntary "buzz" of the candidate LR, for his part Aurélien Pradié thinks that this shows "the contradictions of the RN who claims to be irreproachable, but you do not become president of the Region when you lose your nerves, and it didn't take him twenty-five minutes to unmask himself ”.

Three months before the ballot, the regional campaign in Occitania is already shaping up to be the most corrosive.

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