Legislative, remarks by Emmanuel Macron… The 8:30 am franceinfo of Éric Zemmour and Jean-François Copé

The president of Reconquête and the mayor LR of Meaux were the guests of “8h30 franceinfo”, Tuesday June 25, 2024.

Éric Zemmour, president of Reconquête, and Jean-François Copé, LR mayor of Meaux, were the guests of “8h30 franceinfo”, Tuesday June 25, 2024. Legislative, remarks by Emmanuel Macron… They answered, one after the other, questions from Salhia Brakhlia and Jérôme Chapuis.

“When we have two peoples who stand on the same soil, we are inevitably heading towards civil war,” according to Éric Zemmour

Invited to react to Emmanuel Macron’s remarks on the risk of “civil war” in the event of victories of the “extreme” in the legislative elections, the president of the Reconquest party Éric Zemmour reacted with “a little ironic smile” since it is a term that the far-right polemicist says he uses “for a long time”.

According to the Head of State, the programs of the National Rally and the New Popular Front lead “to the civil war”he said in the “Génération Do It Yourself” podcast broadcast on Monday. “I think that it is not the programs of the extremes which lead to civil war, it is the fact of having let in for 20 years, 30 years, and with an acceleration under Emmanuel Macron, people who, for many, do not have our morals and our culture and who want to impose it on our country”says Éric Zemmour. “When we have two peoples who stand on the same soil, we are inevitably heading towards civil war”, he continues. These “two peoples” being “the French and the Islamo-leftist people led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon”according to him.

“We are on the path to destruction”unfolds Éric Zemmour, pointing “deep fundamental problems which are the emergence of two peoples on the same soil”. “The New Popular Front is only the political and personal incarnation of this new Islamo-leftist people”, he repeats. For the 2022 presidential candidate, “the confrontation is inevitable if we do not stop this crazy immigration”, via the return to “physical borders”.

“Emmanuel Macron left history” by deciding to dissolve the National Assembly, according to Jean-François Copé

For Jean-François Copé, mayor of Les Républicains de Meaux, “it’s the decision” taken by Emmanuel Macron who “leads to a radicalization of positions.”Emmanuel Macron has left history” by deciding to dissolve the National Assembly, measuring “the madness of this decision in light of what is currently happening.” The LR mayor of Meaux now calls the president “to show responsibility and therefore not to resign”while Marine le Pen and other elected representatives of the National Rally are calling on him to resign if he does not obtain a majority in the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7. “The seriousness of the situation being what it is, he is paradoxically, by virtue of his function, the only one who can avoid the worst”he explains.

“As for us, we understood that we had to try as best as possible to save the ideas that we defend, the values ​​that are ours”, continues Jean-François Copé. Asked about the alliance between Éric Ciotti and the RN, he recognizes that his party “continues its descent into hell” started “For years”. Furthermore, Jean-François Copé refuses any coalition with Emmanuel Macron’s camp after the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7. “It’s a joke, but you think Emmanuel Macron will win there? The subject is above all to save France in a situation which is catastrophic”, he says. “We must tell the French: be careful, the risk is there for your children”continues Jean-François Copé, “making the bet” that the LRs reach “all the same to have enough parliamentarians to prevent the irreparable”.

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