Regional in France: the bad joke of an RN candidate panics the campaign even more
A week after the more than encouraging remarks of Marine Le Pen who came to support him, Julien Odoul made the headlines for a completely different reason.
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Two weeks before the first round of regional in France, the campaign is panicking.
Complaint against the RN candidate in PACA, tense debate in Hauts-de-France and a bad joke that turns into a political affair in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
At the heart of the turmoil, the RN candidate with more than awkward words whose
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the newspaper
Liberation
disseminates.
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“
Bourgogne-France-Comté is in the top 3 of the regions that we can win
.
A week after the more than encouraging remarks of Marine Le Pen came to support him, Julien Odoul made the headlines for a completely different reason.
It is
Liberation
which launches the case.
The daily reveals the content of a meeting in 2019 during which the head of the RN list is ironic about the suicide of a farmer.
“
Was the rope French?
», He had launched to try to make laugh the room, according to
Liberation.
Embarrassing remarks for the representative of a party which wants to be the defender of the rural cause and which his political opponents immediately seized.
"
How can a politician make such abject remarks?"
», Indignant the boss of the right, Christian Jacob, a farmer by training.
. @ JulienOdoul, what indignity.
How can a politician fall into such baseness and make such abject remarks?
Your cynicism is vile.
Each farmer's suicide is a personal and family drama that reveals great distress.
https://t.co/LTdkW4lnOd
- Christian JACOB (@ ChJacob77) June 4, 2021
“
Odious.
The true face of the RN is also that of contempt,
”added the deputy LaREM Yaël Braun-Pivet.
Odious.
The real face of #RN is also that of contempt.
#JeNeVotePasRN https://t.co/Z5YpoAOTQB
- Yaël BRAUN-PIVET (@YaelBRAUNPIVET) June 4, 2021
"
Stinking balls
", "
commando operation
", responds Julien Odoul that the last survey gives well in the lead in the first round.
Marine Le Pen, she remains silent.
Since the release of a survey giving me largely in the lead of the regional, the stink balls of a panicked system have been released: desire to dirty with a 14-year-old video, investigation of my home in Sens, despicable accusations.
And tomorrow my bedroom?
- Julien Odoul (@JulienOdoul) June 4, 2021
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