"A threat to France": Laurent Wauquiez calls for a "sanitary cordon" around LFI

The leader of the Les Républicains group in the National Assembly , Laurent Wauquiez , currently campaigning to become party leader, called in the JDD "to establish a cordon sanitaire around LFI", accusing Jean-Luc Mélenchon's movement of "a threat to France".

In an interview published online on Saturday evening, May 3, on the JDD website , the Haute-Loire MP accuses La France Insoumise of having "exploited" the assassination of a Malian in a mosque in the Gard last week and of using the term Islamophobia "to flatter Islamism."

"I have no respect for Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his allies. They are breaking with the Republic. They are a threat to France: they are the party of national destruction, a Trojan horse of Islamism," accuses the former president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional council.

He therefore calls on the "republican parties" to establish "a cordon sanitaire around LFI" by renouncing any political agreement with the left-wing party.

The Socialist Party has already finalized its break with the Insoumis (Rebellious Party). But on Saturday, in an interview with the website Journal.info, Olivier Faure's main opponent, Rouen Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who is a candidate for the leadership of the party, reaffirmed that with him at the helm of the Socialist Party, there would be no alliance with LFI in the event of its dissolution.

In the JDD, Laurent Wauquiez, who has decided to present a very conservative face to make up ground in the polls on his rival for the leadership of the LR, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, also calls for "the creation of a commission of inquiry into the links between La France Insoumise and Islamist networks."

"A form of red privilege reigns in our country: a culpable media and political tolerance of the excesses of the extreme left and its connections with Islamists," he denounces.