What do you think of the city of Brussels? What is your view of the capital of Europe?
“Brussels is part of my workplace. I come there regularly to carry out my mission as a European deputy, my mandate. I am a friend of Belgium, I come there very often. I find that it begins to take on the bad sides, the bad accents of Paris Between the traffic jams and the insecurity, especially around the Gare du Midi, I find that she is starting to take on the accents of Paris.
Several anti-fascist movements are currently demonstrating in front of Hungary House, where we are. Does this worry you?
“There are people in Europe who are nostalgic for totalitarian regimes and who would like to see Europe become a land of dictatorship where only their ideas could be expressed. Me, I lead a fight – that’s what I try to express in this book – for democracy, for freedom of expression I think that all opinions must be able to be expressed. I represent a political party which received 11 million votes in the last legislative elections in France. , which has the first group to the National Assembly, which has the first delegation here, within the European Parliament, in front of the German CDU So, it is normal that we can meet our readers And it is very paradoxical to see the left demonstrating against a. book. The next step, they’re going to burn the book, they’re going to do book burnings?”
In Belgium, there is a system to exclude the far right from political negotiations called the cordon humaine. What do you think?
“It’s strange. I think that we are not animals and that people who vote differently from the left are not intended to be treated like a disease, like plague victims. This concept is very far from the “I have the idea of democracy. These are very harsh, very severe, anti-democratic practices that shock me.”
As we speak, a sentence of ineligibility has been requested against Marine Le Pen. The president of the RN deputies faces up to ten years in prison and a fine of one million euros. Are you worried about the founder of your party?
“No, because I know that Marine Le Pen is completely innocent and that in reality, this procedure aims to prevent her from being a candidate in the presidential election, so the French are not fooled. In reality, on the merits of the matter, there is a difference of assessment between the French political parties and the European Parliament on the work of parliamentary assistants And moreover, this procedure in France concerns the National Rally, but it does. also concerns the former presidential majority and the So, we take turns defending our arguments and asserting our integrity.
