Jordan Bardella “condemns in the strongest terms the threats and intimidation” against elected officials

Jordan Bardella declares on France Inter to condemn “this violence from all margins, whether they come from the ultra left or the ultra right”.

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Jordan Bardella, on France Inter, May 15, 2023. (RADIO FRANCE / FRANCEINFO)

The president of the National Rally Jordan Bardella assures Monday May 15 on France Inter that he “Condemns in the strongest terms the threats and intimidation of which the mayor of Saint-Brévin and all the elected officials of France have been victims, and in particular the local elected officials who are very helpless in the face of this feeling of violence” .

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“We are touching here on the authority of the State and therefore on a form of hierarchy and norm in our society” , adds Jordan Bardella. The National Assembly paid tribute to this mayor last week, all political groups stood up except those on the benches of the far-right party . “The subject is not to get up, the subject is to protect elected officials”defends the boss of the RN. “I condemn this violence, and I condemn this violence from all margins, whether it comes from the ultra left or the ultra right”adds Jordan Bardella.


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