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An identity activist from the 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, an identity activist from the far-right group La Bastide Bordelaise, is a candidate in the legislative elections in the 2nd constituency of Gironde.
In 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”, affirming that he wants to “initiate remigration”, “fight the woke and green lobbies”, or even “stop financing progressive delusions”. A whole program that his adversaries, from the New Popular Front (NFP) to the National Rally, condemn.
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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 is one of the leaders of La Bastide bordelaise, a small group dissolved in February 2023 for its promotion of “a xenophobic ideology, calling for hatred and violence”, according to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.
“Unfortunately, these people exist.”
“Well yes, unfortunately, these people do exist,” laments Guy Dupont, candidate for the Workers’ Struggle in the 2nd constituency of Gironde, to our colleagues. “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. Now, they dare to run for election 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.
