“We have only invited the citizens of our country. We are talking to the French, it is a civic march that we are doing,” pleaded the President of the National Assembly on Wednesday.
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The presidents of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, and of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, assured, Wednesday November 8, that they “will not march alongside the National Rally” but will be “at the head of the procession”Sunday, during the march they initiated against anti-Semitism.
“It’s not a political gathering, it’s not a meeting,” said Yaël Braun-Pivet on TF1calling not to “not sully the message” of this walk “with sterile polemics.” “We only invited the citizens of our country. We are talking to the French, it’s a civic march that we are doing,” further pleaded the President of the Assembly. More than a thousand anti-Semitic acts have been recorded in France in one month, since the bloody attacks by Hamas in Israel, and the Israeli response against the Gaza Strip.
A “unique” banner
The political class is in fact divided around the participation of the RN in this march, which causes unease on the left and within the majority. Yaël Braun-Pivet specified that he “contacted a certain number of former presidents of the Republic, of the National Assembly, of Prime Ministers, so that the procession will be led by men and women who embody the Republic, who embody institutions”. “There will be a single banner”on which will be written “For the republic, against anti-Semitism”she clarified.
La France insoumise announced on Wednesday that its elected officials would not attend this march, justifying this choice by the presence of the extreme right. On Tuesday, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had put forward another reason for rejecting the invitation, writing on “friends of unconditional support for the massacre have their meeting” Sunday, “under the pretext of anti-Semitism”. “We are here to think of our hostages who are being held today”replied Gérard Larcher, also a guest on TF1 on Wednesday, in reference to the French people detained by Hamas in Gaza.