Agricultural Show: Jordan Bardella tackles Emmanuel Macron's “paranoia”
After Emmanuel Macron yesterday Saturday, it is Jordan Bardella's turn to go to the Salon de l'Agriculture this Sunday.
And the president of the RN began his two-day visit in a much more calm manner than the head of state the day before.
No whistles, no boos to welcome Jordan Bardella to the agricultural show this Sunday morning.
The leader of the National Rally for Europeans in June plans to spend two days at the show, an electoral field to plow for the RN.
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Jordan Bardella began a two-day visit to the Salon de l'Agriculture, Porte de Versailles, in Paris this Sunday morning.
Without whistles or scuffles.
The head of the list of the far-right European movement expressed his solidarity with the farmers and rejected the idea that some of yesterday's protesters could have been remotely controlled by his party.
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The leader of the National Rally (RN, far-right) immediately hammered home his ambition to “
change the software
” at the European level.
“We need to change the software” for French agriculture, declared Mr. Bardella. “
Obviously there is the question of income and work. But our farmers must be competitive. However, by being put in competition with products or sectors that do not respect any of the standards
imposed on them; “
it’s very complicated
,” he said.
Asked about Emmanuel Macron, who spoke on Saturday of “
people
” demonstrating at the Salon “
with a political project which is to serve the National Rally
”, the president of the RN replied: “
I am not here to argue.
I think he clearly no longer has the sensors of the country of which he is president.
And he probably doesn't realize the suffering his policies cause
.
We must understand the distress of the agricultural world and above all understand that behind the distress of the agricultural world there is that of rural France.
Mr. Macron suffers from a worrying schizophrenia... (he is) in a form of worrying paranoia with regard to the functions which are his
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Jordan Bardella at the Agricultural Show: “the anger of our farmers is perfectly legitimate”
Aurélien Devernoix
“
When the President of the Republic yesterday defended the principle, basically, of floor prices at the French level, and this text passed into a left-wing niche in the National Assembly, the Macronists out of sectarianism did not vote for it
,” said elsewhere declared Mr. Bardella, questioned about the announcements on Saturday by the Head of State.
While someone on a stand asked him if the RN still wanted to leave the European Union, the party boss replied: “
we want to change the rules in any case.
We can also push the European Union from within
.”
Finally, regarding the environment, “
Ecology is good, everyone agrees on ecology, but if tomorrow we are in the coffin and our hands are clean, that’s good but we will all be dead
,” quipped Jordan Bardella.
(and with AFP)
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