Bruno Retailleau discusses the ban on La France insoumise and accuses the party of insurrection

“We have a party that is fascinated by violence, we have a party that calls for sedition, and we even have a party that tries to organize insurrection,” declared the president of the Republicans. According to him, “what is happening today in front of high schools is the dress rehearsal for what could happen in 2027 if Madame Le Pen won, they would organize an insurrection in the country”.

“It’s no longer possible”

Bruno Retailleau then toughened his tone to the point of mentioning the ban on La France insoumise, which supports the high school protest movement. “I think today that a question arises: it is the question of the ban on LFI. I know that it is very difficult in law, but I am asking it, I am launching it into the public debate because we can no longer act as if nothing had happened, it is no longer possible. “There is a legal framework that exists in the Internal Security Code, (…) a certain number of conditions are required, are these conditions met?”, he added.

Bruno Retailleau finally cited several grievances against LFI: “to show solidarity with the Young Guard, to call for insurrection, to call into question our institutions, to put a target on the backs of our gendarmes and our police officers”. He called on the left “at its most republican” to “dissociate itself in the clearest way”.