2024-08-04 02:54:37
French MP Sophia Chikirou, close to the leader of the radical left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has sparked outrage among senior Socialist figures, and their leader has accused her of provocation after she republished a post paying tribute to the leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement. Hamas” Ismail Hania, reported France Press, quoted by BTA.
Haniyeh was assassinated on Wednesday in the Iranian capital, Tehran, in what is believed to be the handiwork of Israel.
Screenshots from the personal Instagram account of Shikiru – a People’s Representative of the “Disobedient France” party from Paris – were published on the “X” platform. The MP did not deny that she had shared a four-page post paying tribute to the Hamas leader, originally published by the civil society organization Urgence Palestine.
The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, accused the MP of “provocations, the only result of which is to provoke a controversy that sabotages collective work”, and noted that her comments “engage only her”.
The program of the New People’s Front (NNP) – an alliance of left-wing parties, created for the early parliamentary elections held at the end of June and uniting “Rebellious France”, the socialists, the environmentalists and the Communist Party – is clear, said Faure in “X”.
Another left-wing coalition, the New Environmental and Social People’s Union, emerged after the bloody attacks carried out by Hamas in southern Israel on October 7 last year, with the French Disobedient party making condemnation of Israel’s war on Gaza a central campaign theme and was accused of “flirting” with anti-Semitism in defense of the Palestinian cause.
In its program, the New People’s Front categorically condemns the “terrorist massacres carried out by Hamas.”
The chairperson of the Socialists from the Occitania region (south-west France) Carole Delga, an advocate of breaking ties with “Rebellious France”, also expressed her indignation. “Disgusting,” she wrote in X, calling the repost an “apology for terrorism” and a “mouthpiece for Jew-hatred.”
“I will not work with MPs or a party that approves or refuses to condemn such positions,” said Rouen’s Socialist mayor Nicolas Meyer-Rosignol, who openly opposes an alliance between his party and Mélenchon’s.
The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism condemned Shikirou’s sharing of the post, and the Union of Jewish Students in France said it was filing a complaint for “glorification of terrorism”.
France still does not have a new government after parliamentary elections, the second round of which took place on July 7, in which the New Popular Front came out on top, but far from an absolute majority.
After long and difficult negotiations between Recalcitrant France, the Socialist Party, the NNF proposed the largely unknown senior civil servant Lucie Caste as prime minister, but President Emmanuel Macron said he would not appoint a new government before the end of the Paris Olympics in mid- August.