The National Front is not a party like the others, let the would-be sorcerers from all sides be convinced of that. Let us remind some that there is no normalization of the far right in France and others that red-brown alliances have always led to tragedies.
To refresh our memory, it is enough to recap the reminders (I refuse to call them “slips”) imposed on us by the Le Pen team throughout the current campaign:
– The new interim President appointed by Marine Le Pen herself, the discreet Jean-François Jalkh, turns out to be a gas chambers denier. For those who, like me, have visited Auschwitz a dozen times, these remarks are nauseating.
– In the same vein, a few weeks ago, the PACA regional elected official Benoît Loeuillet shared his skepticism about the reality of the Holocaust.
– The homophobic diatribe of Jean-Marie Le Pen regarding the policeman killed by Islamists on the Champs Élysées, remarks all the more scandalous since they were not officially condemned by the candidate and served as a teaser for Marion the niece’s anti-gay marriage speech.
– The candidate herself exonerates Vichy from any responsibility in the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup, going back on a consensus courageously established by Jacques Chirac.
These statements not only recall the intrinsic harmfulness of far-right ideology but also its capacity to contaminate the social body with the complicity of some irresponsible political leaders. Thus, at the beginning of the campaign, I had denounced on this blog the missteps of the Fillon and Hamon teams (see my post from March 11, 2017).
At the last National Council of the PRG, it’s also the incredible anecdote that a large city in the north elected official shared with me. While explaining to a left-wing elected official that he was going to vote for Macron, she replied, “But you’re not actually going to vote for the Jewish bank!” Where are we headed?
Vichy was not a temporary illness that the Republic got rid of at the Liberation; it is a deep evil lurking in the entrails of a France filled with resentment and hatred. The far right is its visible symptom.
Let us eradicate it next Sunday.
by Patrick Mottard, president PRG PACA
