
French Interior Minister Threatens To Quit as PM Pushes Voting Reform
Bruno Retailleau seems more concerned with preventing Marine Le Pen’s party from gaining ground than with solving problems that are his direct responsibility.

Bruno Retailleau seems more concerned with preventing Marine Le Pen’s party from gaining ground than with solving problems that are his direct responsibility.

The political class is pretending to discover a phenomenon that has been denounced for decades by the national Right.

Retailleau’s credibility as the symbol of a renewed French Right may be only superficial.

French officials have been accused of dressing up old measures as ‘new’ so it looks like they are clamping down on mass migration.

With French politics in disarray, the man who revives the Right could have a shot at the presidency, boosted by Macronism’s collapse and Le Pen’s legal troubles.

The group imagines itself fighting a ‘necessary’ battle against the ‘far Right’ and Islamophobia but interior minister says: “Enough!”

The Left vigorously seized on the murder to denounce a climate of ‘Islamophobia,’ despite the accused’s lawyer saying there was no racial motive behind the slaying.

The shadow of Donald Trump’s policy of firmness towards the Latin American countries that initially refused to take back their nationals expelled from the U.S. hangs over Retailleau’s position.

London and Paris could stop illegal crossings “at a stroke” but are unwilling to take the necessary action.

Two years before the election, two men with little to show in terms of fully embracing right-wing politics vie for the leadership of Les Républicains.