Violence of October 17: Bardella affirms that neither he nor Marine Le Pen will participate in the meeting of party leaders around Lecornu

The president of the RN Jordan Bardella announced Monday October 19 that neither he nor Marine Le Pen would participate in the meeting of party leaders around Sébastien Lecornu organized after the violence committed on the sidelines of the October 17 mobilization.

The National Rally will “most certainly be represented by one of its vice-presidents,” said Jordan Bardella about this meeting mentioned by Emmanuel Macron on Sunday evening, but the date of which has not yet been announced.

“The ultra-left is the cancer of our democracy”

During this same press conference, he called on the government to allow members of the RN to participate “in healthy and normal security conditions” in the party congress which is being held next weekend in Orléans. Jordan Bardella once again strongly attacked LFI whose “ultra-left has become the armed wing”. “The ultra-left is the cancer of our democracy,” he insisted. He called on “Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his elected officials to condemn the violence, to move away from ambiguity and to say whether or not they are on the side of the Republic and on the side of honest people or on the side of insurrection and civil war.”

For him, "Mr. Mélenchon's objective is not to be President of the Republic, it is the civil war in France." He even estimated that France should request the placement of "ultra-left groups on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations." In order to “protect the right to demonstrate of peaceful French people in the face of violence”, we must put in place “for the thousands of ultra-left activists on file S the treatment successfully applied to fight against hooliganism, their ban on participating in these gatherings”, he also recommended.