2023-10-11 17:42:46
He will speak Thursday evening, at 8 p.m., during a televised address. Emmanuel Macron “will address the French” pour “return to the terrorist acts committed in Israel and following his meeting with party leaders”declared the presidency to Agence France-Presse on Wednesday October 11.
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A little earlier, she had made it known that“following the terrorist acts committed in Israel” by Hamas on Saturday, the head of state had decided to once again bring together the leaders of the political parties represented in Parliament “this Thursday October 12 at noon, at the Elysée Palace »for a meeting at “exceptional Saint-Denis format”.
As during the first meeting, the presidents of the constitutional chambers, namely the presidents of the National Assembly, the Senate and the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, are also invited to the discussions.
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The ambiguities of LFI criticized
Following the unprecedented deadly attack launched on Saturday against Israel by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, the executive called on Wednesday, after a council of ministers, not to “import the conflict” In France. The government spokesperson, Olivier Véran, pleaded for a “need, in the period, for unity, cohesion of the nation”.
Since Saturday, the positions taken by La France insoumise on the Hamas attack against Israel have been criticized as ambiguous, even complacent, by the right and the government, as well as by its left-wing partners within Nupes. The movement founded by Jean-Luc Mélenchon refused to qualify the Islamist movement as “terrorist”but condemned “war crimes” perpetrated, according to her, both by Hamas and by the Israeli army.
A first meeting of this type was held on August 30 in Saint-Denis, behind closed doors, at the initiative of the President of the Republic. All political forces responded. Another meeting in the format of the Saint-Denis meetings is scheduled to take place on October 30. The international situation prompted the head of state to add Thursday’s meeting “in exceptional Saint-Denis format”in the words of the Elysée.
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