The tone goes up a notch.
Socialist presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo estimated this Sunday that her right-wing rival Valérie Pécresse had crossed "one more Rubicon" by evoking in her meeting "the great replacement", a conspiracy theory relayed by the far-right candidate Eric Zemmour .
In her first major meeting at the Zénith in Paris, Valérie Pécresse affirmed that France was “at a crossroads”: “In 10 years, will we still be the seventh power in the world?
Will we still be a sovereign nation or an auxiliary of the United States, a counter of China?
Will we be a united nation or a fragmented nation?
Faced with these vital questions, there is no fatality.
Neither the big replacement, nor the big downgrade.
I call you with a start”.
“Serious” remarks according to Anne Hidalgo
According to Anne Hidalgo, these remarks are “serious”.
“It is one more Rubicon that is crossed by the right, which could have been this republican right, but which takes a reference from the far right, the sign undoubtedly for Valérie Pécresse of a frantic race behind Marine Le Pen and Eric Zemmour”, estimated the candidate from Le Lamantin in Martinique where she is continuing her campaign.
According to her, Valérie Pécresse “is taking an extremely serious turn for the political debate” which “is absolutely not in the lineage of a Jacques Chirac who has always (…) posed the red line not to be crossed”.
“Our country cannot sink into these fascist, fascistic ideologies.
This theory of the great replacement, we know that it led to the massacre in New Zealand in 2019 "of which the author was a follower, she added.
"I say it from Martinique, the land of Aimé Césaire who carried this message of tolerance and recognition of the identity of the other, not to be afraid of it but to make it a collective force", underlined Mrs Hidalgo.
Michel Barnier, supports Valèrie Pécresse, denies
Asked about the subject by LCI, the former candidate for the primary LR Michel Barnier, who became a support for Valérie Pécresse, disagreed.
For him, Valérie Pécresse on the contrary “used this word to say that she did not want it.
No misunderstanding possible.
She says she does (not) want Mr. Zemmour's theories, ”he hammered.
Eric Zemmour advocates the fight against the “great replacement”, a conspiracy theory according to which European populations are replaced by non-European populations.
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Presidential 2022: For her first big meeting, Valérie Pécresse tries to evacuate her "techno" image
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Presidential election 2022
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