Bruno Retailleau, president of the Les Républicains in the Senate group once again regretted, Thursday, November 4 on franceinfo, the calendar chosen by his party to appoint the LR candidate for the presidential election of 2022. He must be elected at the end of the Republican Congress, “a closed primary” reserved for members, from December 1 to 4, ie 4 months before the election deadline. “The flaw in this choice of a very late schedule is to have created a void and this void served the pseudo false candidacy of Eric Zemmour”, estimated Bruno Retailleau.
“I was one of those who thought he would never cross the 10%, today he is beyond.”
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“He is strong in our weaknesses”, added the president of LR in the Senate. “For years, the right has disappointed its electorate because we were scared to carry values, because the media sometimes intimidated us and because we allowed ourselves to be intimidated”, he estimated. “Political correctness, single thought, is terrible”, continued Bruno Retailleau, convinced that today “France has never been so far on the right”. According to him, “there is a need for the right” and “it’s necessary [sa] right corresponds and responds to this need for solutions and values of the right that the French expect. “
“I was one of those who went to the forefront of the fight against Islamism, I had a certain number of texts voted in the Senate, in particular on the headscarf”, reminded the senator, according to whom Éric Zemmour “made a mistake” on this topic. He “fracture” and he “falls into the trap of the Islamists”, judged Bruno Retailleau. “When he says that we have to remake the French, I totally agree, we have to redo love France”, he continued, considering however that “if we really want to fight against Islamism”, we can not say “that the vocation of our French Muslim compatriots is to become Islamists”. For Bruno Retailleau, this amounts to saying “that true Islam is Islamism” and to “to agree with the Islamists who say that there is no other Islam than theirs”. “We need a vision and serious measures, not demagoguery, France must be brought together”, he concluded.