For the penultimate confrontation before the Congress which must appoint the candidate of the party to the presidential election, the five contenders have, this time, exceeded the regalian framework on which everyone wanted to show his firmness for weeks.
Le Monde with AFP
Education, Handicap, Culture … It was necessary to wait for the third debate for the five candidates to the Republicans (LRs) for the Presidential 2022 leave somewhat marked themes on immigration and purchasing power who had vampirized their previous confrontations.
At ten days of the congress that will designate their candidate of the on December 4, Michel Barnier, Xavier Bertrand, Eric Ciotti, Philippe Juvin and Valérie Pécresse met on Sunday, November 21, on CNEWS and Europe1, a penultimate time, for a more animated debate than the first two.
Challenger of the competition, Philippe Juvin warned at the beginning of the show, while everyone could talk about the theme of his choice: “We have addressed fundamental questions that are security and immigration, but that can not by suffice “because” if we speak only of that, we will miniaturize ourselves “.
” An examination at the entrance of 6 e “, offers Valérie Pécresse
Choosing Education, Valérie Pécresse assured that “the fight against school dropout will be the great cause of [its] five-year” with “an examination at the entrance in 6 e ” and “The end of the unique college”. “We must help the teachers” who “are victims of” vague “,” she added, tacling “the dictatorship of a politically correct that rewrites our story”.
For Xavier Bertrand “The school is a sanctuary”. And “when a child does not want to attend the speaking course of the Shoah, it’s the parents that must be summoned” because “it can be a sign of a radicalization,” he added, ensuring that It “will not be the President of repentance”.
“We need to review school programs, one of the goals of the school is to make France love,” said Philippe Juvin, while Eric Ciotti defended his idea of a “ministry of National Instruction “While the programs are according to it” drifting to wokism “.
“There is an issue of civilization” in the face of “wokism ideology” that “wants to destroy the foundation of our national cohesion”, has abounded Michel Barnier.
A debate remained courteous
Xavier Bertrand has chosen for his carte blanche the handicap, promising “a great law” next to a “big cause” devoted to caregivers.
This debate, remained courteous, highlighted some known disagreements, on the right of blood, the number of civil servants or the sending of the army in the neighborhoods for example. But at the approach of the Congress, whose outcome is very uncertain, everyone also sought to stand out with some 150,000 members called to vote.
Michel BARNIER boasted his “energy” with a veiled tackle at his neighbor Xavier Bertrand. “Energy is not agitation, (…), it’s not talking stronger than the others,” he said, before launching immigration later: “Xavier Bertrand pretends not to understand! “
While Eric Ciotti, defender of a very right-handed line, boasted his “freedom to think” on the “subjects prohibited by the left”, Valérie Pécresse played the card of the synthesis: “I am in the process of Consensus with my proposal “migratory quota, has it launched. Xavier Bertrand supported him on his program of authority and social right summarizing, on the immigration he wants to limit: “I want to go quickly!”