Invited Monday evening by CNews, the European MP (Reconquest) judges that if the Minister of the Interior “has not yet moved a comma”, he has “raised immense enthusiasm on the right”.
It’s off to a flying start. Appointed a week ago at Place Beauvau, Bruno Retailleau is stepping up to impose his style. Hérault from a conservative right and firm on the migration issue, the Minister of the Interior has antagonized the left and a large part of the presidential camp, one of the components of the government coalition, by ensuring this weekend in the JDD : “The rule of law is not intangible or sacred.” “The source of the rule of law is democracy, it is the sovereign people”. If France’s top cop is accused of having once again crossed a red line, after his comments on AME or “double punishment”, he is applauded by his camp and a fringe of the nationalist right.
Faced with the National Rally, whose discretion this Monday is probably linked to the opening of the trial in the case of the assistants of its European parliamentarians, the Zemmourist party is advancing its pawns. Guest of CNews, Sarah Knafo claims that Bruno Retailleau “could have been at Reconquête”. And develop a speech “which could have been carried” by the formation created in December 2021. Considering that the former leader of senators LR “has a chance” to be at “power” and “act», the MEP notes that “what he said caused immense excitement on the right”.
“Now we want action”
Without being a blank check, this support contrasts with the criticism that Reconquête addressed to the former Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin. “That says a lot: he (Bruno Retailleau) hasn’t even moved a comma yet, he hasn’t even made a single decision yet, but he made us happy, continues the vice-president of the party. That shows how unhappy people are to see themselves lied to.”
A plea that Sarah Knafo extends by drawing a parallel between the controversial sentence of the Vendéen, which “simply said what the French see, feel”, and the work The judges’ coup published at the end of the 1990s by Éric Zemmour, then an essayist. “On many subjects other than migration, he wrote well before all the others. And today, these topics are in the news every day, more and more people are recognizing how much of an impact he had.she boasted. While the dissolution of June 9 caused Reconquête to implode – four MEPs left and a laughable score (less than 1%) in the legislative elections – Sarah Knafo wants to reassure herself: “It’s only a step (…) It’s very good to already be a right-wing think tank, to win the battle of ideas, now we want action.”
