The leader of the national rally canceled his participation in the CPAC, “Conservative Political Action Conference” in Washington, after Steve Bannon made an apparent Nazi Hi during his speech this Thursday.
The president of the RN canceled his participation in a conference in Washington after one of his famous speakers, Steve Bannonex-advisor of Donald Trump During his first presidency, made a nazi salute to the crowd.
Jordan Bardellawas to speak this Friday at this annual conference organized by theAmerican Conservative Unionwhich takes place each year and brings together up to 10,000 participants.
However, he announced that he was withdrawing after Steve Bannon ended his speech with words “fight, fight, fight“And stretched his right arm upwards in what seemed to be a Hitler’s salvation.
Jordan Bardella was to address the links between the United States and France as well as the momentum that takes shape behind the “patriotic parties” in Europe at the conference. But in a statement published on Friday, he explicitly identified the reason for his decision to withdraw from the event, without mentioning Steve Bannon.
“”Yesterday, in the gallery, when I was not present in the room, one of the speakers made a provocative gesture referring to the Nazi ideology“He explained, adding that he had withdrawn”immediately“After Steve Bannon’s actions were brought to his attention.
Steve Bannon interviewed on the spot by French channels declared, in the midst of bird names, that it was not a Nazi salute, but a simple salute to the crowd gathered for the occasion. Regarding Jordan Bardella he said he was one “little girl “(sic), if he canceled because of what the mainstream press says about her speech“, and that it was”Not worthy of directing France“.
The RN however behind Trump
Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen, who heads the RN group in the French Parliament, have already celebrated the return to power of US President Donald Trump.
At the beginning of the month, Ms. Le Pen spoke during “Make Europe Great Again”, a conference organized by the Spanish far right party Vox, where she said that a wave of policies at the Trump swept the ‘ Europe.
“”The election of Donald Trump cannot be analyzed only as a simple alternation in a democratic country“Said Ms. Le Pen.” Or even only as the patriotic awakening of a nation which would rightly dismiss the forces of the decline. We are faced with a real global switch point “.
She also said that the parties gathered at the conference were the only ones in Europe to be able to communicate properly with the Trump administration.
Ms. Le Pen made these remarks more than two weeks after Elon Musk, a great ally of Trump, made a similar greeting during an inauguration event of Trump. Elon Musk also supported the German far -right party AFD, with which the RN refused to sit in the European Parliament.
The CPAC is an unmissable event in the Washington political calendar since the 1970s. Formerly information center for the vast American conservative movement and a key platform for the rising stars of the Republican Party, it is today closely associated At the Mag of Trump movement and regularly presents some of the most incendiary figures associated with it.