“The spirit of decency, the relationship with history should lead them to make a choice,” argued the head of state in an interview with “L’Humanité”.
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Emmanuel Macron believes that the National Rally should refrain from attending the ceremony of entry into the Pantheon of foreign communist resistance Missak Manouchian on Wednesday, in an interview with the daily Humanity posted online Sunday February 18.
“Far-right forces would be advised not to be present, given the nature of Manouchian’s fight”declared the head of state.“As for the tribute to Robert Badinter from which the elected representatives of the RN were absent”at the request of the family of the former Minister of Justice, “the spirit of decency, the relationship with history should lead them to make a choice”argued Emmanuel Macron.
“But I am not going to decide on that through an arbitrary gesture”he added, believing that his “the duty is to invite all the representatives elected by the French people” without having to “sort them out”.
“I never considered that the RN or Reconquest were part of the ‘republican arc’”
In this interview, Emmanuel Macron returned to the debate which runs through the presidential majority around the integration – or not – of the National Rally into “the republican arch”. At the beginning of February, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal included the RN and more generally all the forces represented in the Assembly, arguing that behind these parties, there are “millions of French people who voted”.
“The National Assembly welcomes all the forces elected by the people. Do they all adhere to the Republic and its values? No. This is also true for far-left groups”he considered for his part, aiming “certain personalities of rebellious France” Who, “by their positions”, “fight the values of the Republic”.
“Even if I do not posit an equivalence between the two extremes. I never considered that the RN or Reconquest were part of the ‘republican arc'”, he clarified.