The announcement surprised everyone on Saturday April 20, including the person concerned. Marine Le Pen, visiting the 101st French department, announced that the head of the National Rally there would appear on the party list for the European elections, undoubtedly in an ineligible position. Saidali Hamissi is unknown in mainland France, but he is a well-known local Mahorese political figure for his radical positions.
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Saidali Hamissi, candidate for European elections has Mayotte, made very ambiguous remarks about a supposed “natural submission of women” and virulently rejected Covid vaccines. He also, in March 2022, sent a message in praise of Vladimir Putin. Six months later, he then wrote a post calling it “ vermin ” and of ” cockroaches », immigrants targeted by a law enforcement operation.
These words, unearthed by the newspaper Release, were all published on Saidali Hamissi’s Facebook account. They do not surprise at all a local executive of the LR, his former party, according to whom Saidali Hamissi “ radicalized » in recent years, and not only on social networks.
Radio silence from the campaign team and party leadership
But now, these excesses are all examples of what the RN absolutely wants to avoid in its standardization enterprise. SO, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella Did they know? Was the National Rally aware of all kinds of slippages by its departmental delegate? Impossible to get any response in the last few hours. From the campaign team and the party leadership, there is radio silence.
A cautious MP close to Marine Le Pen admits a certain embarrassment, but will not go further, the party being in an electoral period.
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