From the questure hall of the National Assembly, this Monday, November 6, Yaël Braun-Pivet gives free rein to his emotion. The tenant of the perch, who came to greet three families of French hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, invited that day, recalls that what happened in Israel on October 7 is, in her eyes, a ” crime against humanity “.
Next to her, the European deputy (Les Républicains, LR), Nadine Morano, who accompanied the president (Renaissance) of the National Assembly to Israel at the end of October, is in tears. In front of the more than thirty deputies from the presidential camp, members of LR, the Socialist Party and the National Rally (RN), Yaël Braun-Pivet also wants ” to specify “ that the call for a big march, Sunday November 12, against anti-Semitism, which she launched the day before with the President (LR) of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, in a platform at Figaro, is not an initiative ” policy “ but an approach “citizen and civic”.
A point that the elected official from Yvelines, who is herself the target of anti-Semitic threats and insults, hammered home the 8 p.m. news on TF1, with Gérard Larcher. This walk “is not a political meeting”, “we did not invite any party but citizens”she said, assuring: “We will not march alongside the RN. » The procession which will set off from Les Invalides to the Palais du Luxembourg will be well guided by politicians, “Republicans”, she says, without specifying who is Republican or not. “Let’s not let the message we carry be tarnished (…) with sterile controversies »she swept away.
“Coming together is not about erasing your differences,” also recalled Gérard Larcher, who judges that the true “republican cordon” is to be tender “against anti-Semitism”. The plea of the representatives of the two houses of Parliament aims to find an improbable harmony within a political world hesitant, or torn, in the face of their initiative.
Part of the presidential majority and part of the left set conditions for their arrival on Sunday, disturbed by the attitude of the leader of the RN in the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen, who called on Wednesday ” all [ses] voters » to join the mobilization after confirming his presence and that of his faithful and president of the far-right party, Jordan Bardella.
“Republican cord”
“The RN has no place in this demonstration”, decided, on Wednesday, the government spokesperson, Olivier Véran, after leaving the council of ministers, recalling the impossibility of coexistence “good and bad anti-Semitism”. An allusion to the words of Jordan Bardella who refused, on Sunday, to describe Jean-Marie Le Pen as anti-Semitic, despite the multiple outbursts and condemnations of the co-founder of the National Front.
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