Juliette Planche, candidate of the National Rally for the departmental elections in Saint-Etienne (Loire), is suspended for having relayed anti-Semitic remarks. Information confirmed by Andréa Kotarac, RN candidate for the presidency of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
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She wore the colors of the National Rally in Saint-Etienne (Loire) for the departmental elections, but Juliette Planche will be suspended from participation in the campaign. The candidate relayed anti-Semitic comments on her Twitter account.
Alert ???? ???? Juliette Planche, RN candidate for regional and departmental in AURA, deleted her Twitter account in May 2021. There were anti-Semitic retweet and sharing of publications from Jeune Nation, a movement with a Pétainist tendency. They don’t change. pic.twitter.com/fDDkxDLggX
– Thomas Portes (@Portes_Thomas) June 8, 2021
“On June 10, the day after the day I was warned, I immediately seized the disciplinary committee of the National Rally,” Andréa Kotarac, RN candidate for the presidency of the Auvergne-Rhône region, told AFP. Alpes “by evoking remarks relayed by Juliette Planche which for me were not acceptable”, thus confirming information from Mediapart, who exposed this case.
Juliette Planche, in an eligible position (6th) on the regional list and candidate for departmental in the Loire, according to Mediapart “relayed
on his Twitter account, opened in January and closed on May 31, anti-Semitic and conspiratorial remarks by the ultra-right activist Yvan Benedetti, recently convicted of public incitement to hatred towards Jews, on a repeat “.
It “cannot be withdrawn from the lists which are deposited, but it will be suspended for the rest of the campaign”, announced Andrea Kotarac, former member of France Insoumise who became leader of the regional movement of Marine Le Pen.
He ruled that these tweets were “in relation neither with (his) values”, being “grandson of resistance, nor with those of Marine Le Pen”, and assured to have “followed the internal legal procedure of the party to ensure that it takes the appropriate measures “.
“The commission sent a summons to the person concerned,” he continued.
According to a France 3 poll, the RN, placed on the far right of the political spectrum, is credited with 23% of voting intentions in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, in 2nd position behind Laurent Wauquiez (37%), against 19% a month earlier.
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