Othman Nasrou, advocate of “a right that assumes itself”, answerable for the struggle towards discrimination | EUROtoday

Even on the final minute, Othman Nasrou all the time is aware of tips on how to make himself out there to talk for his occasion Les Républicains (LR) on TV units.^er September, on BFM TV, the vice-president of the Ile-de-France area defends the present line of his political household: no authorities coalition with Macronie. “I have no intention of participating in this big reality TV show organized by the President of the Republic”he says. Three weeks later, this Franco-Moroccan was on the Elysée Palace, on Monday, September 23, to attend his first council of ministers as Secretary of State for Citizenship and the Fight towards Discrimination. He had the chance to shake Emmanuel Macron's hand, whereas in May, he was important of his actions, confiding in World : “History will judge him harshly.”

At 37, the native of Casablanca, Morocco, embodies one of many new faces of the proper. An avowed liberal on the financial degree, this HEC Paris graduate is far much less so on societal points. In a message revealed in 2015, on the social community X, the person who was then against marriage for all had judged “brave and realistic” the proposal of the present president of the Ile-de-France area, Valérie Pécresse (to whom he’s shut), to repeal the Taubira regulation. A message exhumed in latest days by LGBTQ+ associations. Until the final second, his title made a part of Macronie tense and the pinnacle of state warned Prime Minister Michel Barnier about his profile.

A key determine inside LR, the brand new Secretary of State has been working carefully for 2 years with Bruno Retailleau, who till then was the chief of the LR senators and who’s now his supervisory minister. Like the brand new Minister of the Interior, Othman Nasrou says he’s combating “woke ideology”, “assume that this country has an identity” and is alarmed by “the rise of communitarianism”.

Never elected in his personal title

Although he studied in Versailles when he arrived in France on the age of 15, the thirty-year-old discovered one other land of alternative in Yvelines: Trappes. An opposition elected official since 2014 on this working-class commune, he accuses the vast majority of Mayor Ali Rabeh (Génération.s) of encouraging the ghettoization of sure neighborhoods. “Left-wing and far-left elected officials, for electoral reasons, have concentrated social housing for decades in order to build up a captive electorate”he denounced in 2023 in an interview with Point.

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