After the king, the sovereign pontiff. Emmanuel Macron will meet with Pope Francis during his visit to Marseille which begins Friday. Several left-wing elected officials then called on the President of the Republic to seize the opportunity to listen to the Pope’s “courageous” welcoming message on migrants.
“If Emmanuel Macron can open his ears to the message delivered by Pope Francis on migrants, that would be good news but he is not taking the path at all,” judged LFI MP Clémentine Autain on LCI. “It is a message of humanity and we are at a time when the President of the Republic has decided to put on the agenda yet another law which will further tighten the reception conditions” of migrants, he said. -she lamented.
A “brave” greeting
La France insoumise is organizing a rally in Marseille on Friday evening “in solidarity with the victims of anti-migrant barbarism”. It will be a “secular contemplation echoing the action of the believers who came together in the ceremony with Pope Francis”, specifies LFI.
“His message on welcoming migrants is extremely courageous,” said ecologist Sandrine Rousseau on Sud Radio. “He has a word that we hear less and less, which is a word of sensitivity to ‘other,’ said the Paris MP.
“We have a utilitarian discourse on economic immigration which would serve us, we also have a discourse of rejection, with the idea of a completely fantasized great replacement. And there, we have something that puts the church in the middle of the village, which is to say “a man is a man, a woman is a woman and whatever his skin color, he has the same essential needs” “, she congratulated herself.