Presidential 2022: Darmanin strongly attacks LR candidates – The HuffPost

“A large part of right-wing and center voters no longer thinks like the LRs, which are no longer a government party, they have gone to the extreme”, declared the Minister of the Interior in Parisian, in an interview posted online on the daily’s website, on the eve of third debate between Barnier, Pécresse, Bertrand, Juvin and Ciotti.

The best candidate on the right? “Macron”

This close to the president of Hauts-de-France, candidate for the nomination of the Republicans for the presidential election, accuses the members of his former party of stalling their steps “not on those of their fathers, but on the steps of the extreme right ”.

“When no one disputes the theory of great replacement, it is the opposite of Gaullism. When they come to organize debates on whether or not they should work with Eric Zemmour who says that Marshal Pétain was a good type, that the first names of the French must be changed, it is the opposite of the Republican right! ”, he enumerates.

Asked about the best candidate of the right, Gérald Darmanin answers “Emmanuel Macron” and says he regrets that “intelligent people, who know the complexity of business, for having been ministers, who are patriots, like Valérie Pécresse, Xavier Bertrand, Michel Barnier , do not support the President of the Republic ”. LR members will nominate the right-wing candidate for the 2022 presidential election at the Party Congress from December 1-4.