Embarrassment in the face of the historical legacy of the national rally over the state

What posture should we take before the extreme right? A strange uncertainty reigns over the state, after Emmanuel Macron abruptly replaced his Prime Minister, Elizabeth Born, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, in the Council of Ministers, who believed that on Sunday, May 28, the National Rally (RN. ) “Heir of Pétain”. THE “definition” He wanted to bring it from Slovakia on Wednesday, he did not have any trouble. “We can no longer defeat the far right in our democracy simply by historical and moral arguments.”– repeated the President of the Republic, although he usually proves it “Look history in the face”. “The Pétain label on Marine Le Pen’s forehead is a big mistake”pushes Elise’s advisor.

“We must humble ourselves” RN by raising his discrepancies rather than using them “moral positions”delivered Mr Macron’s lecture at the Elysee Palace on Tuesday, suggesting the two strategies against the far-right would be mutually exclusive. “You cannot convince the millions of French who voted for the far-right that they are fascists”he argued.

The presidential thunder in the Macronist camp is still incomprehensible. In Matignon, Elizabeth Bourne is said to have expressed no moral judgment. Unlike Emmanuel Macron, Bruno Le Maire is sticking to it on Wednesday“We can vividly recall, as Prime Minister, the RN’s history of fighting the RN on its proposals and ideas.”. Eric Dupont-Moret explains to him, the world that“We clearly have to confront the FN [Front national, l’ancien nom du RN] On his incompetence, on his permanent coups, on his final condemnation by the court in the campaign kit case. But also about its history, because the FN is the fruit of its history, a party founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen and Pierre Bousquet, formerly of the Waffen-SS..

Bourne’s “disgraceful” remarks

At the national rally, we put our hands on this speech delivered at the highest summit of the state. The tone was set by M.^I Le Pen, who sentenced M^I with a thick head “disgraceful” and “unworthy”One who believes he has dispelled the clouds of the past by changing the party’s name in 2018 and excluding his father after another anti-Semitic outburst three years earlier.

Party cadres are trained to respond to the collaborationist past of the founders of the National Front. It comes in two forms, deployed since Sunday: highlighting former resistance fighters who marched under the Frontist banner and reminding elected officials from other parties of Vichy friendships. “Some FN creators were certainly collaborators, amid others who were resistant”Louis Aliot claims, in 2010, the master of the demonization of the National Front. RN’s vice president describes these founders as “Far less involved in collaboration” Like the future Socialist President François Mitterrand or the future Gaullist Minister Maurice Papon – whose role in the deportation of Jews was revealed later in his political career.