2023-07-04 20:33:25
Mathilde Panot (LFI), during the session of questions to the government at the National Assembly, July 4, 2023. JULIEN MUGUET FOR “THE WORLD”
The criticisms aimed at La France insoumise (LFI) for its refusal to call for calm, after the violence which followed the death of young Nahel M., do not weaken. Tuesday, July 4, before the deputies of the Renaissance, Horizons and MoDem groups, constituting the presidential majority, Elisabeth Borne said “very shocked by the words of La France insoumise which refuses to condemn the violence”, “additional proof”in his eyes, that this party “does not position itself in the republican field”.
The Prime Minister criticized the leader of the LFI deputies, Mathilde Panot, who had left a meeting the day before at Matignon, before it ended. While the tenant of Matignon had met on Monday July 3 the presidents of all the parliamentary groups, in the interests of “democratic transparency [qui] is essential in a period like the one we are going through, for our republican unity and our national cohesion.she considered Ms. Panot’s attitude as a refusal to cooperate in the commitment of the political parties for the easing of tensions and the resumption of debates.
During a press conference at the National Assembly on Tuesday, Mathilde Panot defended herself by castigating statements that would have the sole purpose of making « diversion », while the government “refuses to learn the lessons of this tragedy” and face the “systemic police problem”. The MP for Val-de-Marne maintains the course set by the party and recalls that it “there will be no return to calm if there is no justice”.
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Divergences within the Nupes
Even within the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), where the position of Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been singled out, in recent days, new criticisms have also targeted the leader of the rebellious. On Tuesday, the national secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF), Fabien Roussel, insisted on distancing himself from him, accusing him of legitimizing the violence, even of justifying it. “I dissociate myself from the comments made by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and certain rebellious people, who refused to call for calm, some going so far as to say that this violence is legitimate, to the point of justifying it”declared Mr. Roussel, during a press conference at the headquarters of the PCF, in Paris.
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The latter went so far as to affirm his opposition to seeing the left assimilated to Mr. Mélenchon: “There are at least two lefts, his and ours. » The one that Mr. Roussel intends to embody is “the left that defends social progress, republican values and order and justice”. Unlike Mr. Mélenchon, the leader of the Communists did not “never said” what « the police tue ». No question of “mixing up” between the police “who have dangerous, racist behavior and the rest of the police”he insisted.
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