The Assembly office votes against the creation of a France-Palestine friendship group

With eleven votes against, and eight for, the office of the National Assembly said no to the transformation of the France-Palestine international study group (Gevi) into a France-Palestine friendship group, Wednesday May 15, learned franceinfo from Richard Ramos. The MoDem deputy and current president of Gevi fought to include this point on the office’s agenda, and pleaded for the creation of this friendship group. He saw it as a measure “symbolic“, while there already exists a France-Israel friendship group.

But the office, made up of 22 deputies and reflecting the balance of the Palais-Bourbon, rejected this possibility. Some deputies, particularly on the left, were nevertheless in favor of it, such as the socialist Valérie Rabault, vice-president of the National Assembly, who “regret” the office’s decision, as she writes on (ex-Twitter). The president of the socialist group Boris Vallaud, for his part, denounced “dincomprehensible and regrettable decision” on the same social network.