Attal accuses Bardella of “stigmatizing” binationals and of investing candidates with a racist past

June 28 () –

The prime minister and presidential candidate, Gabriel Attal, accused this Thursday the proposal of the far-right National Rally, Jordan Bardella, of having “stigmatized” three million French people with dual nationality, after ensuring that they would be excluded from some public positions. in case of winning and having invested “more than a hundred candidates” with racist and homophobic records.

The far right is telling these people that “they are half as French” as the rest of their compatriots. She wants to “stigmatize three and a half million binational French people,” Attal reproached during the last debate before the early legislative elections this Sunday.

“You are creating second-class French people!” said Olivier Faure, secretary general of the Socialist Party, who attended the televised debate representing the New Popular Front candidate.

Likewise, Attal has continued to again accuse Bardella of having invested “more than a hundred candidates” with some racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic records. “That’s almost one in five,” he said, amid protests from the far-right leader who called him a “liar.”

Bardella has reproached his opponents for trying to “play on the fears” of voters just days before the elections. “When have I said that people with dual nationality are not truly French?” he asked.

Thus, although he has indicated that he does not question dual nationality, at the same time he has defended that such a circumstance “could pose a problem and would require a reinforcement of controls”, in regards, he said, to security issues.

French voters are voting Sunday in the first round of parliamentary elections called early by President Emmanuel Macron after his party’s poor showing in the European elections, which were won by the far-right National Rally.

According to polls, this would be the leading choice among French people, with more than 35 percent of the vote, followed by the left-wing coalition New Popular Front, which would win 29 percent of the vote. In third place would be Macron’s Renaissance party, with almost 20 percent.