Party nomination candidates The Republicans faced in a third television debate on Sunday on CNEWS. Most of the topics once again seemed dictated by the far-right polemicist, not without creating discomfort within the party.
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Three weeks they present their ideas and personalities behind desks or beating the platform, a microphone by hand. Three weeks that pretenders to the investiture of the Republicans (LR) for the presidential election debate on television, to try to convince the members of the party, who will vote in the Congress between the . and the December 4th. If they are five to compete, a sixth invited in the debates, the shadow of Eric Zemmour hovering on this internal competition.
More time proposals than others on security issues, will maximize immigration, martial postures, all among LR candidates gives the impression that it must answer. Of him that they must distinguish themselves. Or to him that they must compare in order not to spend too laxists or far from the diagnosis drawn up by the far-right polemicist, obsessed with immigration and identity.
The third television debate, Sunday, November 21 on CNEWS, has not been an exception. Even if the first part of the show was, for the first time, devoted to the health crisis. Then, again, the President of the Hauts-de-France, Xavier Bertrand, the president of Ile-de-France, Valérie Pécresse, the ex-European Commissioner, Michel Barnier, the Mayor of La Garenne-Colombes ( Hauts-de-Seine), Philippe Juvin, and the member of the Alpes-Maritimes, Eric Ciotti, were interviewed at a long time on security and immigration issues.
“What a pity not to talk about health or education “
If the chains have a responsibility in the choice of subjects, they decide nothing without having discussed it and agreed beforehand with the candidates. On 17 November, Eric Woerth, MP LR of the Oise and former Minister of the Budget, regretted this situation before the Association of Parliamentary Journalists: “In the Precampancy, all themes, moreover, derived by Eric Zemmour, take a preponderant place and probably disproportionate compared to what they represent, even if they are important. “
Saturday, at the National Council of the Party which looked at length the five contenders, the president of this internal body, Annie Genevard, MP, and number 2 of the LR, has also deplored that the television debates focus on the regalien. “What a pity not to talk about health, culture, or education issues”, where “we also have things to say,” she launched. “We talk a lot about it because it is the most serious subjects,” said Michel Barnier, that it is a “prerequisite” to “quickly engage the reconstruction on the other subjects”.
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