
The LR candidate for the presidential election visited the General's grave in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises
Bruno Retailleau, LR candidate in the presidential election, believes that Charles de Gaulle would take an “extremely severe” look at current France, deploring the divorce between the bureaucratized state and the nation as well as the recurring political impotence.
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Charles de Gaulle was President of the Republic from January 1959 to April 1969. Bruno Retailleau visited his grave in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises to discuss Gaullian heritage in the context of the presidential election.
How would Charles de Gaulle view France today? Bruno Retailleau tried to answer this question on Monday in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, where he came to pay his respects at the grave of the General, President of the Republic from January 1959 to April 1969. “His gaze would be extremely severe, because Charles de Gaulle is the opposite of defeatism. He would be surprised to see this divorce between the bureaucratized State and the nation, a State which no longer pursues the general interest. »
The Republican (LR) candidate for the presidential election also believes that the recurring spectacle of political impotence would be a reason for Gaullian disappointment. According to him, in such a context, the General “would enter into resistance”, because France is no longer “a true democracy”. “How many in the political-media class consider today that France is finished? And that we should move on to another France, including a new France? »

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