Laure Lavalette
Role at the time: Member of the National Assembly for the Var (Rassemblement national), in a post on her X account
Statement summary
Lavalette called Nuñez incompetent and questioned whether he should be the one organizing the presidential election.
“So it is this incompetent Nuñez who is supposed to run the organization of the presidential election? (Translated from French. Original: Et donc c'est cet incapable de Nuñez qui est censé gérer l'organisation de l'élection présidentielle ?)”
The Rassemblement national deputy posted this on X on the morning of October 18, 2026. An hour earlier she had posted that it was 10:52 on October 18 and Nuñez had still not resigned.
Why we used this label
The reference point is Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez's preparation and policing of the October 17, 2026 protests in France. Lavalette calls the minister incompetent the morning after the violence and, in posts the same day, said he still had not resigned. Calling him incapable of the job is a criticism of his handling, so we labeled it as condemning.