for François Hollande, “if we do not want there to be racist deputies, we must not vote for them”

“It’s an attack that has no place in the National Assembly”, confides Friday, November 4 François Hollande to franceinfo. The former President of the Republic, traveling to Bordeaux to sign his book Upheavalsreacts to racist remarks made by the deputy of the National Rally Grégoire de Fournas on Thursday. “There must be reactions to match what has happened”, continues the former head of state. The RN deputy received the heaviest sanction, voted by the deputies on Friday, that is to say “censorship with temporary exclusion”.

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François Hollande admits it, “the sanctions will necessarily appear limited since these are only days withheld and therefore without compensation for the parliamentarian who has engaged in this type of invective”. He adds and explains that“we cannot exclude a deputy from the National Assembly” since “a deputy came by the will of his voters”. For Francois Hollande, “if we do not want there to be possibly racist deputies in the Assembly, we must not vote for them”.

“Hasn’t this deputy said out loud what a good part of the National Rally is thinking to himself? Asking this question is already answering it.”

Francois Hollande

on franceinfo

For the politician, the fact that there is “90 deputies from the National Rally in the Assembly, that means that there are theses that will be uttered, stated, produced over the coming months” .A fact that worries him: “It wouldn’t be so bad if this movement was far from power but it can also get closer to it.”

And the former head of state to insist: “It is therefore very important – beyond legitimate indignation – that the major Republican political families mobilize to convince the French that they have solutions and that there is no need to take refuge in votes extremes”he concludes.