Valérie Pécresse's objective was clear: to extinguish the controversy without backpedaling, or even a mea culpa, but simply by explaining the text.
The LR presidential candidate, criticized for having evoked the conspiracy theory of the "great replacement" on Sunday, denounced on Tuesday a "controversy mounted" by her opponents on what she described as a "theory of hatred and fear" .
According to her, since she was nominated as a candidate, "there has been an unhealthy game between Emmanuel Macron and Eric Zemmour and Marine Le Pen to try to get them to come face to face".
"Let's be very clear, I am the real Republican bulwark to the theory of the" great replacement ".
(…) I hate her, I fight her”, declared the candidate on France 2. It is a “controversy mounted with an expression that I have been using for months to say that I am fighting against this” great replacement “” supposed of the European population by a non-European population.
"I don't legitimize it since I say I don't want it," she insisted.
Sarkozy "remains a very strong reference"
“Uncontrolled immigration and failed integration” can “break a nation apart.
I want order and harmony, ”she further reaffirmed.
“This line that I defend is the same” with “order, freedom, Republic”.
“I want to wash this thing publicly: I alone have the solution” and “she is a Republican.
Without migratory quotas, how will we manage to regulate flows, to control uncontrolled immigration?
".
Finally, on Nicolas Sarkozy, who had criticized her in remarks reported by Le
Figaro
, Valérie Pécresse said her “conviction that he (her) will support”.
"I am a totally free woman, I follow my path, but Nicolas Sarkozy remains a very strong reference and I want him to support me, (…) everything separates him from Emmanuel Macron".
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