The Bardella affair, to which the mayor of Marmande refused to lend a room for his meeting, continues to make waves. After Joël Hocquelet attacked his opponent Les Républicains, Martine Calzavara, the boss of LR Lot-et-Garonnais steps up to the plate.
The socialist councilor had notably judged the desertion of the LR “disastrous” for the last legislative elections in the constituency of Marmande, while the National Rally deputy Hélène Laporte was very comfortably re-elected. “Your president, Mr. Gaëtan Malange, who is an ambitious young man, who is in the constituency and who is not running, it’s a little curious,” said the mayor, after having mentioned a “real non-aggression pact , perhaps in order, in return, not to have an RN list in the municipal elections of Marmande”.
Thursday, November 28, the person concerned, mayor of Saint-Barthélemy-d'Agenais, gave a long reaction. “I was coming out of a victorious senatorial campaign as a substitute, and I did not feel concerned by this early electoral deadline,” he said firstly, to justify his non-candidacy for the legislative elections.
“An insult”
To the mayor of Marmande who also accused him, during the Council, of having posed with Hélène Laporte in photos and of having “spent a good evening with the RN deputy during the general assembly of CR 47”, Gaëtan Malange responds with irony that he remembers seeing “Monsieur Hocquelet dining opposite Mme Laporte, even serving him a glass of water.”
Without really saying that there is no agreement with the RN for the municipal elections in Marmande, the boss of the LR sends Joël Hocquelet back to his political party, “which went astray by forming an alliance with La France insoumise. »
As for the decision of the Marmandais mayor to refuse a room to Jordan Bardella, he considers that it is “an insult to the 3,398 voters of his commune who chose the RN in the legislative elections. There are therefore 3,398 fascists and anti-republicans among the population of Marmande. They will appreciate it! »
