Marine Le Pen will attend the ceremony, against the advice of Emmanuel Macron

The president of the RN parliamentary group announced her intention to be present at the event. She also denounced “outrageous comments from the President of the Republic”. The latter had estimated, in an interview with “L’Humanité”, that the far-right group should abstain.

Marine Le Pen will attend the Pantheon entry ceremony for communist resistance fighter Missak Manouchian on Wednesday, her entourage informed franceinfo, Monday February 19. The leader of the RN deputies also denounced “outrageous remarks” of the President of the Republic. Emmanuel Macron estimated that the National Rally should refrain from attending the event, in a daily interview Humanity put online on Sunday.

“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 [auquel] 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 equate the two extremes, I never considered that the RN or Reconquest were part of the ‘republican arc’”, he clarified.