“The rule of law is not intangible or sacred. » The exit of Bruno Retailleau in the JDD led to strong condemnations on the left, bristled in the presidential camp, and caused distancing within the government itself. And now, even the far right is criticizing the tenant of Place Beauveau, who believes that his comments have been “used for false debates”.
“I must express a major difference with our Minister of the Interior. It is not the rule of law as such that must be contested, it is quite the opposite. We are the guarantors of it, in the sense given to it by the most brilliant European philosophers of past centuries,” launched Marine Le Pen during a meeting in Nice.
Jordan Bardella criticizes “sterile controversies”
“The rule of law is the submission of all to democratically defined rules, and it is one of the immense conquests of European civilization,” retorted the three-time presidential candidate to the words of Bruno Retailleau . “What is questionable, on the other hand, is the way in which they have overturned this notion to make it an instrument of submission of people who would no longer have the democratic freedom to develop the law. We will never accept this,” continued the leader of the RN deputies.
Jordan Bardella, the president of the party, castigated the “sterile controversies” which followed the minister’s interview with the JDD. “When the law protects our fundamental freedoms, when it guarantees the proper exercise of democracy, the rule of law must be protected (…) But the rule of law is also the possibility of changing the law in the State when it malfunctions,” he added to the RN activists in Nice.