Several Republican officials on Monday linked the victory in Italy the day before of Giorgia Meloni’s post-fascist party to immigration, while rejecting the idea of union with the extreme right.
The candidate at the head of LR, the head of senators Bruno Retailleau estimated on Facebook that “like the Swedes before them, the Italians have just sent a clear message to the European Union: Europe can no longer be that continent open to all migratory winds. “.
“Only a policy of civilization, which defends our borders, our ways of life but also our interests, will allow Europe to respond to the existential anguish of the European peoples,” he added, advocating “rebuilding a great, popular and patriotic party, which can bring together all the right-wing voters.”
“The real danger for Europe is not Giorgia Meloni”
“Looking at Italy, some say that the only future of the French right is to become subordinate to the agitated,” LR number 3 Aurélien Pradié said on Twitter, lashing out “the morbid fascination of those who, with us, no longer believe in it.”
“They have lost the demand for Gaullism. I believe in that,” added Lot’s deputy, the party’s presidential candidate for a popular and social line.
For MEP François-Xavier Bellamy, “the real danger for Europe is not Giorgia Meloni, it is that illegal immigration has skyrocketed in Italy”. But “it is crazy to believe that 25% of Italians are fascists,” he added.
Excluding the idea of a union with the extreme right, he estimated on Sud Radio that “in France what matters is uniting the right, not bringing together the parties, but the voters.”
“The Cry of a People”
Also for Senator Stéphane Le Rudulier, “the greatest danger for Europe is not the victory of certain parties but the explosion of mass immigration from outside Europe.”
For his part, the president of the young LR Guilhem Carayon estimated that “this vote sounds like the cry of a people who do not want to die and rebel against Brussels techno.”
“We cannot transpose the Italian or Swedish system to the French system”, clarifies the Public Senate Gilles Platret.
“I am not in a logic of union, we must rebuild a republican right”, added the right-wing mayor LR of Chalon-sur-Saône.
Source: BFM TV
