Geoffroy Lejeune, Christine Kelly, François-Xavier Bellamy, Jordan Bardella, Stanislas Rigault and… Hugo Clément. In this family photo from the conservative right, the star ecology journalist looks like a hated child. This Thursday, at the Palais des Sports in Paris, Valeurs Actuelles organized its “Great Debate of Values”. The opportunity for the media of the union of the rights, to bring together the Parisian nationalist ecosystem. In the public, in addition to the readers, a few Frontist deputies and representatives of Reconquest. And before the start of the show, all these little people greet each other warmly. Marion Maréchal discusses at length with Manuel Valls or gets annoyed, in the middle of an exchange with the deputy RN Hervé de Lépinau, against a journalist who left his microphone lying around. Understand: no media here. The conservative right is behind closed doors, like at home, and has the right to talk to each other away from the cameras.
On the program of this great raout, therefore, exchanges and debates. The first, on the theme of “civilization” opposes François-Xavier Bellamy, long applauded by the public, to the former Prime Minister Manuel Valls. Leaning on his desk, the MEP thanks the ex-tenant of Matignon for his “courage to have attacked the excesses of a certain left which makes a pact with Islamism and communitarianism and wokism.” And to add: “Why not have gone further and have campaigned for the right to vote for foreigners, in the face of the civilizational emergency?”. “Sold,” chanted in the audience. Justifications by Manuel Valls, who specifies, moreover, that his work will be “on sale at the exit”.
Entry, then, of Jordan Bardella and Hugo Clément, to talk about ecology. “The public will discover that you are green”, quips the mediator to the president of the RN. “No ! He is a hunter,” retorts the public. A very urban debate ensues between the two almost thirty-somethings on the need to preserve the “common house”. The first calling for “not to behave like the left behaves with immigration, that is to say in denial”, the second asking for “the management of this subject by the whole of the political spectrum whatever be our vote. Jordan Bardella’s conclusion: “Maybe we need less Sandrine Rousseau and a little more Hugo Clément.” Applause in the room. Conclusion of Hugo Clément: “If I accepted to come, it is because VA agreed to make a donation to a charity association, so thank you for participating this evening in the fight against hunting with hounds.” Stupor in the room.
A discussion follows between Jordan Bardella and Olivier Babeau on artificial intelligence. Then a show by Geoffroy Lejeune on guitar to thank the absent “Alice Coffin”, “Louis Boyard” and “Pap Ndiaye”, to an air of “Pas là” by singer Vianney. Stanislas Rigault, president of Génération Z and representative of Reconquête (Marion Maréchal preferred to stay near the stand of Issep, the school she founded, rather than going on stage) and Charles Consigny, columnist from the right , close the evening under the applause of the public. The curtain falls, hands are tightened, and frontists, zemmourists as well as some representatives of a harder fringe, like the identity Aurélien Verhassel, go upstairs to enjoy, far from the cameras, a glass of wine. intimate friendship. RN and Reconquête toast together, taking care not to insult the future. It is far from the presidential campaign. This is also the union of rights.