Come to support Gilles Platret in Dijon this Thursday, June 24, the elected Republican has systematically crushed his competitors in order to reposition these elections in a national perspective, proposing “a responsible alternation, consistent and adapted to the changing needs of the country” .
Coming as a neighbor, since Aube borders the Côte-d’Or, François Baroin (LR) made the trip to support the regional candidate Gilles Platret (LR) during a last campaign meeting this Thursday June 24, 2021 at the Dijon Convention Center.
While deconfinement allows the organization of this public meeting, François Baroin applauds the mayors present in the room for their commitment to the general interest during “failures of the State” during the health crisis.
The president of the Association of Mayors of France also indicates that he has not forgotten the petition “Balance your mayor” launched on social networks by Walkers in 2018 to denounce local increases in housing tax.
The tone is set. In a polished but not smooth speech of twenty minutes, alternating between historical references and features of humor, François Baroin will target one by one the competitors of Gilles Platret.
Just will he address a sympathetic word for the political personalities of Côte-d’Or which are François Rebsamen (PS) and François Patriat (LREM), the first being seen as a supporter of a “amiable social democracy” , the second as an “honorable veterinarian” having “presided over the destinies of this region”.
The theme of the defense of secularism
“We won the municipal elections, we won the senatorial elections, we are on the way to winning the regional”, launches the elected representative of the Republicans to reassure the troops.
Locally, the president of the AMF focuses on the political action of the mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône: “I liked what he did on the burkini, I appreciated that you opened the debate on school canteens, together we supported the general framework of the reflection around a code of secularism that the association of mayors had proposed to ensure that we know precisely what it means, in the French Republic , the law of 1905, a public service and the general framework to consider that to have a fervor, a hope, a belief related to the intimate and that, in the public sphere, the general framework, it was neutrality ”.
A comment on secularism that will come back in the background of the speeches systematically arousing the applause of the audience.
“A nation is an indivisible, perpetual collectivity which is part of the long term”
Faced with the merger of the lists between the Socialists in particular and the parties of political ecology on the evening of the first round, François Baroin declares that “the protection of the environment is a necessity which belongs to all political formations: the quality of the ‘water, household waste monitoring, wastewater treatment plants, daily quality of life, preservation for future generations, the use of new energies ”. But nothing on climate change or the erosion of biodiversity dear to environmentalists, issues yet addressed by Gilles Platret in his own speech.
Nevertheless, the mayor of Troyes has a nice game to tackle the mayor of Rouen whose “idea is to unbolt the statue of Napoleon”. In Rouen, socialist Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol was elected after a merger with environmentalists. In September 2020, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol let it be known that he would welcome the fact that the equestrian statue of Napoleon I undergoing renovation did not return to its place in front of the Town Hall to be replaced by a work. of art dedicated to Gisèle Halimi.
François Barouin thus intends to denounce the culture of erasure: “’we have the truth, we are going to rewrite history and we are going to impose our conception of life and your happiness on you’; it is the opposite of the nation. A nation is not a people at a given moment, it is not green extremes who must speak their truth and take revenge on the failure of their Marxist project of the 1970s. A nation is an indivisible, perpetual collectivity that is part of the long term, which means that, in our history, there are parts of shadow and light. We try to learn from the experience of the shadow part and to somehow tame the dominant part of the light part ”.
The controversies over the mayors of Lyon, Bordeaux and Poitiers are also reviewed as well as their connections with people whose proposals are presented to the audience as more eccentric than the others, which greatly amuses the room.
“Behind, it is a sectarian project, a Marxist project, a project of exclusion”, launches François Baroin, resuming a serious tone, “this is what the outgoing president is creating to constitute in order to constitute a majority ( …) Which will not be at the service of its project, it will just be taken hostage by a project which will be the opposite of your daily life, which is a real threat to the future of this region ”.
“Voting National Rally is a dead end”
The National Gathering? “Let go, it’s a waltz”, launches François Baroin, in reference to the participation of Marine Le Pen in a pan-German corporations ball in Vienna in 2012, before slipping on the subject of “arabesques” performed by Julien Odoul in an intimate video that conveniently resurfaced during this regional campaign.
“Voting the National Rally is a dead end”, insists with a muffled voice François Baroin, who prefers to consider that “Gilles Platret will be able to do a lot” with the skills of the Region.
“We will take back power”
Last to be crushed, “the power in place”. “Him, it’s never his fault. (…) The results which are bad are not his fault. The inconsistency of weakening democracy is not its fault. As if, having humiliated the parliament, having been the government which produced the most ordinances, drawing lots of citizens, using the establishment of convention, bypassing the intermediary bodies, battling with us the mayors who embody the République, they walk around and are not responsible for anything, ”explains François Baroin.
“What is the outcome of these four years? A weakened democracy, a country that wonders, ”he sums up.
“Macron is a child of Holland and 66% of the candidates for the legislative elections came directly from the Socialist Party,” he analyzes. Those from the Republicans? The “debauchery” of “jackets”!
“We will take back power,” suddenly launches the speaker, triggering a round of enthusiastic applause. And François Baroin concluded that “for the moment, it is the regional” with “an extremely encouraging mobilization because it will write the conditions for the possibility of having a responsible, coherent work-study program adapted to changing needs. from the country”.
Jean-Christophe Tardivon
Gilles Platret wants “to ensure that the Republicans can be the force of alternation tomorrow”
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