The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, demanded from “master of clocks” Emmanuel Macron that he “set the record straight”, after statements by two of his ministers about the National Rally. On franceinfo Tuesday June 21, he targeted in particular the Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, and the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau.
He was thus indignant “to hear Éric Dupond-Moretti explain that we have to seek the voices of the far right in Parliament”. Sunday evening, on BFMTV, the latter mentioned the possibility of“to move forward together” on certain texts, while he faced the European deputy RN Thierry Mariani. “Do you really think that there is a possible majority with the extreme right, do these people really mean what they say?”he protested. “Some time ago, they were explaining that [l’extrême droite] it was the anti-Republic”describing the behavior of ministers as “historic fault”.
“How could they have come to this? What drift did they get into?”
Olivier Faureat franceinfo
“Is there a possible majority with the far right? What a historic fault! The far right throughout history is against the Republic”, indignantly Olivier Faure. “How can we achieve this degree of confusion? What drift did they get into?” pic.twitter.com/LRNjmgLhwW
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As for Marc Fesneau, Olivier Faure accuses him of having “Explain”Monday on franceinfo, “that he would ultimately have a preference for the far right at the head of the finance committee, rather than someone from the Nupes”.
“The presidency of the finance committee in the National Assembly goes to the most important group of the opposition”said the Minister of Agriculture. “Even if I don’t like it, whether it’s the National Rally, it’s binding on us, it’s binding on me”, he added. In reality, the regulations of the National Assembly only stipulate that this function falls to a deputy who belongs to an opposition group, without specifying that it falls to the most important.
If the deputy of Seine-et-Marne, re-elected on Sunday, recognizes that “everyone must do their part” in the historic breakthrough of the National Rally, he believes that “the shares are not equal”.
“You have a President of the Republic who presented himself as the dam against the far rightcontinues Olivier Faure. And in these legislative elections, we ended up in this kind of total confusion with people in his party, the Prime Minister himself, who explained that we had to face extremes, as if we could put in this country a trait of equivalence between the left and the ecologists and the extreme right. He melted the Republican front.”
Historical breakthrough of the RN ➡️ “Everyone must take their shares but the shares are not equal. E. Macron melted the Republican front” by making people believe that “we could draw a line of equivalence between the left and the ecologists and the extreme right”, denounces O. Faure. pic.twitter.com/oAU8GGArjk
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