Deputy RN Grégoire de Fournas shouted “that he (s) return (s) to Africa!”, While Carlos Martens Bilongo, deputy LFI, asked the government a question about migrants.
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“We should no longer be able to be elected once we have made racist remarks”, offers Thursday, November 3 on franceinfo the spokesman of the PCF Ian Brossat after the racist sentence launched by the deputy Rassemblement nationale Grégoire de Fournas at the National Assembly. While a parliamentarian from La France insoumise, Carlos Martens Bilongo, asked the government a question about immigration in the Mediterranean, Grégoire de Fournas loudly launched: “Let them go back to Africa!”
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“I think it’s time to ask again the question asked by Fabien Roussel a few months ago, which is that of ineligibility for people convicted of racismbelieves Ian Brossat. If tomorrow this deputy is condemned for racism, he must be ineligible.
“It is not normal that there is a form of impunity for racist remarks, that we can hold it openly, including within the confines of the National Assembly, and continue to be an elected representative of the Republic.” Ian Brossat indicates that Fabien Roussel will resubmit his bill soon. “I hope the presidential majority will vote for it this time”insists the PCF spokesperson.
“There has been a form of slippage in our country for many years. We see racism and anti-Semitism everywhere in the public space. At some point, there is a Republican dike that has to pass through the ineligibility.”
Ian Brossat, PCF spokesmanon franceinfo
“We can turn things in 50 different directions and multiply the interpretations, the reality is cruel, these are racist remarks”, believes Ian Brossat. The president of the RN group tries to minimize by explaining on Twitter that her deputy “referred to migrants transported by NGO boats” and not the deputy LFI Carlos Martens Bilongo who spoke about illegal immigration. “These are comments that were made by a far-right MPrecalls the spokesman of the PCF. I want to say that it is in the order of things because I never imagined that the RN was anything other than a racist party.
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