the RN withdraws its nomination from Quentin Macullo after the controversy over his tweets | EUROtoday

The National Rally (RN) withdrew its nomination for the municipal elections in Belfort from Quentin Macullo, the far-right get together declared to Agence France-Presse (AFP), Monday February 9, confirming data from native radio Ici Belfort-Montbéliard.

Appointed in October, the 23-year-old candidate was caught up in his previous publications on social networks. In explicit a tweet courting from 2022, revealed by Mediapartby which Mr. Macullo counted “72% of foreign-sounding first names in the last birth census in Belfort”or 18 of the 25 newborns talked about within the municipal bulletin for June of this yr. “I didn’t even count Elijah and Samuel of Hebrew origin”he insisted.

Having turn into accountable for the RN youth motion and quantity two of the flame get together in his division, Mr. Macullo was additionally parliamentary assistant to the deputy (RN) Guillaume Bigot because the summer season of 2024.

Embarrassing precedents for the get together

Despite the controversy, his candidacy was nonetheless defended on the finish of January by an government of the motion: Jean-Philippe Tanguy judged these messages “not racist or anti-Semitic per se” and, after listening to the individual involved, “it turned out that wasn’t the case”he declared. Questioned initially of the yr about a number of instances, together with this one, the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, affirmed that his get together “will withdraw[it] the inauguration » to candidates if he was aware of elements “not discovered in the past”.

Since then, the get together has needed to crack down in Condat-sur-Vienne towards a candidate attributing the Oradour-sur-Glane bloodbath (in 1944) to “Nazified Ukrainians”and particularly in Carpentras towards the previous head of the record whose a number of sexist and racist tweets courting again to 2017 have been unearthed by the newspaper Release.

During the 2024 legislative elections, dozens of RN candidates have been singled out for feedback revealed on social networks, typically of a racist nature. Despite the size of the phenomenon, Jordan Bardella tried to attenuate the phenomenon by saying that it was “bad apples” within the ranks of the RN.

During a visit to the south of France, Mr. Bardella once more identified a minority of “personalities who try to graft”whereas hammering house that “ [sa] hand has never trembled and will not tremble » to exclude those who have “an attitude, remarks or political positions contrary to the party line”.