Since the start of this week, and the announcement of the program by Jordan Bardella, the controversy around binational French people has continued to swell, fueled by the slippages of the RN. Thursday evening, it was the outgoing deputy Roger Chudeau, specialist in education issues at the RN, who explained on BFMTV that the appointment of Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Franco-Moroccan, as Minister of National Education had been “a error “.
“I think it was a mistake, and not a good thing for the Republic,” insisted Roger Chudeau, for whom “ministerial positions must be held by Franco-French people, period.” And to add: “What did she do? She destroyed the public college and above all she wanted to institute Arabic classes in CP,” he added. “She herself said that she was a sort of gateway, a bridge, between Morocco and France. She claimed it as a quality,” he said, highlighting, according to him, “a problem of dual loyalty at a given moment”.
“We must be outraged by these things.”
After the controversy surrounding the RN’s proposal to ban dual nationals from “extremely sensitive jobs” – a measure which would be unconstitutional – Marine Le Pen’s party is obliged to condemn new remarks which have outraged the political class, unless of 72 hours of the first round. “The position that I expressed regarding Ms. Vallaud-Belkacem on BFMTV is a strictly personal opinion and in no way commits the National Rally,” Roger Chudeau even had to correct on X.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal denounced words that “stigmatize” on BFMTV this Friday morning, saying that the far-right party should withdraw Roger Chudeau, the outgoing MP for Loir-et-Cher, from his nomination for the legislative elections.
Questioned on CNews, Marine Le Pen castigated the comments of her own MP. “I am a little stunned that our colleague can express an opinion that is personal to him and which is totally contrary to the project of the National Rally,” she assured.
“This statement is not admissible because if he is an elected member of the National Rally, and gives his personal opinion while knowing full well that it is not the National Rally’s project, I consider that it is a serious error,” she added later in the day, before announcing that she wanted to refer the matter to the “party conflicts commission.”
“We must fight with force and we must be outraged by these things,” reacted the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, from Brussels where he was attending a European summit. “This creates a doubt which has no reason to exist” and does not correspond to the “position” of the party, explained Jean-Philippe Tanguy, also an outgoing RN deputy, specifying that “his opinion is not prohibited by our laws” rejecting the accusations of “xenophobia”.
“Incompetence, racism and lies”
Regarding dual nationals, Marine Le Pen admitted that she “could, in the past, have considered this solution and I gave up on it several years ago.” […] because I realized that dual nationals felt a form of suspicion of disloyalty towards France […]. I found it unfair to them.”
For her part, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem joked about X: “I find you a little harsh towards Mr. Chudeau. I want to thank him for this beautiful overview of what the RN would bring to power: incompetence, racism and lies. »
