"native french" : majority candidate creates controversy (VIDEO)

The case was a mess. Pascal Rifflart, the legislative candidate for the presidential majority in the Somme’s 1st constituency, presents himself as a “French stock” in his campaign brochure. The use of this controversial expression, which is often used by the extreme right, caused confusion. The Macronist candidate defended himself with BFM TV on this statement: “Now these words have a connotation. But a tense, it means a tense. You have to put the terms in their context, I used them to talk about Europe”justified it.

On Wednesday, May 25, columnists “Touche pas à mon poste” were invited to react to the use of the phrase and were not kind to politics.“Marine Le Pen got 30% of the vote in the constituency. So Marine Le Pen is going to flirt with her voters and I don’t think it’s good to do that because it’s purely electoral, purely demagogic, and I see that she’s given up on her beliefs in catching a few voices. So I completely debating the debate. I understand”argued Gilles Verdez.

Same story with Guillaume Genton. “I think he misunderstood. It has to go to Eric Zemmour or Marine Le Pen. I find the expression ‘French stock’ intolerable. It implies that there are good and bad French. Pure French and less pure French, as if having foreign ancestors was a dirty thing. Either he made a big mistake and needs to apologize, but obviously he doesn’t, or he needs to switch sides.” he guessed. “I will ask you to exclude“, for his part, endorsed Bernard Montiel, who was close to Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron.

Géraldine Maillet was more nuanced. “My husband (Daniel Riolo, editor’s note) is not of French descent. At the age of 18 he fought for the possession of French newspapers. And when we call him ‘Italian descent’ rather than ‘French descent’, that’s not a problem for him. He does not feel excluded, stigmatized. ‘French’ today has a lot of connotations, but I think that expression should be put into perspective.”he explained.

LT