Emmanuel Macron affirmed this Tuesday, May 30 before the Council of Ministers that the far right should not be fought “by moral arguments”, seeming to distance himself from Elisabeth Borne who had considered that the National Rally was the “heir of Pétain,” participants reported. “You will not be able to make millions of French people who voted for the far right believe that they are fascists”, launched the head of state in the presence of his Prime Minister, according to these participants who confirm comments reported by The Parisian And Le Figaro.
In an interview broadcast on Sunday by Radio J, the head of government attacked the National Rally, which she said did not believe in “normalization”. “I think you shouldn’t trivialize your ideas, your ideas are always the same. So now, the National Rally is putting the forms in it, but I still think it’s a dangerous ideology,” she said. judged, ensuring that the party of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella was “heir” of Philippe Pétain, head of the Vichy regime which collaborated with Nazi Germany.
“The fight against the far right no longer involves moral arguments,” assured President Macron in the Council of Ministers. According to him, “we must discredit” the RN “by the substance and the inconsistencies” rather than by “words from the 90s which no longer work”. The President and the Prime Minister then had lunch alone at the Elysée Palace, as they do every week.
Emmanuel Macron had already estimated in the past that it was necessary to “respond to the challenges of the country” to stem the rise of the RN. “Marine Le Pen will come” to power “if we do not know how to respond to the challenges of the country and if we install a habit of lying or denial of reality”, he said at the end of April in Le Parisien.