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The mayor of Béziers calls for distinguishing violence from demands and mentions an over-representation of immigrants in incidents
Robert Ménard, various right-wing mayor of Béziers, defends the police, criticizes LFI for having fueled violence during mobilizations, and evokes an over-representation of immigrants among the rioters, while evoking the prospect of the presidential election of 2027 and the ambitions of the National Rally.
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The article addresses a new day of mobilization in France, Robert Ménard's criticism of LFI and the police, as well as the prospect of the 2027 presidential election and the ambitions of the National Rally with Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella.
Asked about this new day of mobilization, Robert Ménard, various right-wing mayor of Béziers, recalls that we must “distinguish violence from people's real demands”. “The high school students have real reasons, but LFI is throwing fuel on the fire. They are fueling violence, they don’t give a damn about their political demands,” he denounces on the Europe 1 set.
“LFI spends its life justifying abuses. It's not because we are poor that we have the right to break things. What contempt for people to explain that because their situation is difficult, they have the right to break!” he protests. “The people most scandalized by the thugs are honest people,” he defends.
He praises the courage of the 70,000 law enforcement officers deployed on the ground for the mobilizations and deplores the more than 2,000 injured police officers and firefighters. “I am amazed at their calm, their restraint. I tell myself that the guys are heroic. The guys threaten them, insult them, and they do nothing? There is no one who is as closely monitored as the police officers with the IGPN, so don't tell me that they have the right to do what they want. We must first thank them and tell them that we are behind them,” he insists.
On the issue of immigration, he says: “of course immigration is one of the central problems of our country. If the RN has such incredible scores it’s because people like Édouard Philippe didn’t talk about it for years.” In the latest mobilizations, “we cannot say that immigrants are the cause of the violence, but it is true that there is an over-representation,” he recognizes.
What the reigning president failed to do either in 2022, after his re-election, or in 2024, after his dissolution, the outgoing president would like to impose for 2027: build an authentic coalition capable of governing the country and, beforehand, of preventing the victory of the “extremes”. Except for this: Emmanuel Macron can no longer be either the organizer or the beneficiary.
In the coming weeks, the head of state will not intervene publicly in the preparation of the presidential election. His stated priority between now and the end of his mandate: to set up an alliance of countries which, from Canada to Australia, from Brazil to Kenya, refuse to be crushed by a dual Chinese and American hegemony. But, despite everything, it is another double hegemony, national this time, which obsesses him: that of Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Marine Le Pen will propose a government of national unity with Jordan Bardella as prime minister in the event of victory in the 2027 presidential election.
Likely · Within months
Emmanuel Macron will not publicly participate in the preparation of the presidential election in the coming weeks.
Very likely · Within weeks

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