
Responding to Emmanuel Macron's accusations, RN deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy considered that the head of state was "entirely responsible" for the situation.
Accused by Emmanuel Macron of having favored the “disinhibition of racism”, the National Rally placed the blame on the president, accusing him of having allowed hateful ideologies to flourish in nine years in power.
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Emmanuel Macron had accused the RN and LFI of promoting the disinhibition of racism and anti-Semitism during an interview.
The National Rally (RN), accused by Emmanuel Macron of having participated in a “disinhibition of racism”, responded Thursday through the voice of its deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy that it was the president, “very problematic”, who had allowed “hateful ideologies” to flourish.
“Mr Macron, it is he who has managed France for nine years, it is he who allows hateful ideologies to flourish”, retorted on TF1 this close friend of the candidate Marine Le Pen. “It is under his mandate that anti-Semitism unfortunately reached record highs, homophobia reached record highs and other forms of hatred reached record highs. So he is entirely responsible for the situation,” added Jean-Philippe Tanguy.
He assured that Emmanuel Macron “himself is a very problematic person” and “was protected a lot by people who had an interest in his election”, without specifying who he was talking about. The MP notably cited a joke made by the president in 2017 about kwassa-kwassa, boats used to transport migrants to Mayotte.
Emmanuel Macron denounced in an interview on HugoDécrypte, Wednesday, the role of the RN in a certain “disinhibition of racism”, and that of La France insoumise (LFI) for the “disinhibition of anti-Semitism”. The RN, and more broadly the far right, is accused by its detractors of having fueled a racist climate of which the Trappes attack last week is one of the manifestations.

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