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Identity activist from the small far-right group La Bastide Bordelaise, Yanis Iva is running in the legislative elections in the 2nd constituency of Gironde. His opponents denounce his “hateful” and “extremely worrying” speech.
This is a controversial candidacy to say the least. In Bordeaux (Gironde), Yanis Iva, identity activist from the small far-right group La Bastide Bordelaise, is a candidate in the legislative elections in the 2nd constituency of Gironde.
On his profession of faith, where he poses with boxing gloves and a broad smile, the young man promises to “give a good right to the left”, claiming to want to “initiate remigration”, “fight the woke and green lobbies” , or even “stop financing progressive delusions”. A whole program condemned by its adversaries, from the New Popular Front (NFP) to the National Rally.
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Yanis Iva’s leaflets compile “the most hateful elements characteristic of the discourse of the extreme right of identity: the invitation to physically attack one’s political opponents, neofascist and white supremacist symbols such as the Celtic cross and slogans LGBTphobes”, denounces Nicolas Thierry, outgoing MP and environmentalist candidate of the NFP, in a press release.
According to France Bleu Gironde, Yanis Iva would be one of the leaders of La Bastide Bordeaux, a small group dissolved in February 2023 for its promotion of “a xenophobic ideology, calling for hatred and violence”, according to the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.
“Unfortunately, these people exist”
“Well yes, unfortunately, these people, they exist, deplores to our colleagues Guy Dupont, Lutte Ouvrière candidate for the 2nd constituency of Gironde. “We see them a little in broad daylight because until now, they were in the shadows. We saw them when they threw punches, like when they made certain interventions in working-class neighborhoods against workers or an immigrant population. There, they dare to run for elections on fascist ideas, on racist ideas, nauseating ideas.”
Same story with the National Rally: Flavie Fournier, RN candidate in this constituency, claims “not to know this gentleman” and considers this candidacy “scandalous”. “Yanis Iva is clearly putting on a show, it’s staging. You have to look at his campaign poster with his boxing gloves on, we are in a very serious election, it’s a turning point,” he said. -she denounces.
