A widely commented exit from the road on the left. The socialist president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, fierce opponent of Nupes, was the guest of France Info this Wednesday, June 7. Asked about immigration, the elected official took Kylian Mbappé and Yannick Noah as examples, declaring that they “are from other countries”.
“We have to stop conveying this image of immigration being nothing but a threat,” she said this morning. “Who are the favorite personalities of the French? It’s Kylian Mbappé and Yannick Noah, she says. They are from other countries. When the journalist tries to point out to her that Kylian Mbappé like Yannick Noah were born in France, Carole Delga replies that “their parents, these people I am quoting you, were not born in France”. Except that the mothers of the two athletes were both born in France. Trying to catch up, Carole Delga described immigration as “a wealth for France” as the government works on a new text on the subject.
Immigration law: “We must stop conveying this image of immigration which only represents a threat”, pleads the PS president of Occitanie, “favorable” to the regularization of undocumented migrants in jobs in tension but “perfectly opposed” to the reduction of the AME pic.twitter.com/FCvsBjLZGO
A false step which did not fail to react to his political opponents, in particular the Nupes. Jean-Luc Mélenchon deplored a “dismaying contamination by far-right clichés”. Manuel Bompard reacted in the same tone. “The anti-Nupes left is the one that says the same thing as the RN. On Twitter, Carole Delga made a point of apologizing: “I regret to have expressed myself badly”, she indicated.
My name is Delga. 1st, 2nd, 100th generation, we are all children of immigrants. Faced with those who brandish immigration as a threat, I recalled that it is an asset, a contribution to the genius and success of our country. I’m sorry for expressing myself badly.
