2023-10-12 00:35:52
After the attacks against Israel and the emotion in public opinion, Emmanuel Macron decided to bring together party leaders for lunch, this Thursday, October 12 at the Élysée, at 12 p.m., to take stock of the situation, particularly that French residents or on vacation there. Information confirmed by several participants.
“A typical Saint-Denis meeting format, advanced,” confides one of them, while the Head of State had initially planned to receive all the political forces at the end of the month to talk about everything else. subjects, decentralization and referendum. This Thursday, it will only be about the situation in the Middle East and its national repercussions. The presidents of the National Assembly, the Senate and the Cese are also invited. Retained in Aveyron, Gérard Larcher will be replaced by senator Hervé Marseille, already invited to the lunch as president of the UDI. He intends in particular to question the Head of State, as he already did in the hemicycle on Wednesday during current questions to the government, on “the financing of Hamas by Iran and Qatar”.
Manuel Bompard present at lunch
After refusing to qualify Hamas as a terrorist organization, the Insoumis are under fire from criticism from the entire political class, including on the left. However, the coordinator of France Insoumise, Manuel Bompard will be present at this lunch.
Eighteen French people of whom “we have no news”
While a plane is due to repatriate French people this Thursday, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced this Wednesday that ten French nationals have died and 18 are missing. Among them, she continued before the parliamentarians, “several French children” were “probably kidnapped” by Hamas.
“I want to have a special word for our ten deceased nationals and the 18 of whom we have no news,” declared the head of government during the government questions session in the Senate. “We are in constant contact with the families,” she added, addressing “all (her) thoughts to the French community in Israel, who live in anguish.”
A few hours later, Emmanuel Macron will address the French in a speech at 8 p.m.
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