The office of the National Assembly was to decide on Wednesday on the transformation of the study group on Palestine into a friendship group.
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The office of the National Assembly opposed on the morning of Wednesday, May 15, the transformation of the France-Palestine international study group into a France-Palestine friendship group by 11 votes against, eight for, we learned. franceinfo to parliamentarians.
The PS group in the Assembly, which had supported the approach, indicates “regret this decision”. Some deputies, particularly from the left, were in favor of it and saw in this creation of a France-Palestine friendship group, like the one that exists for France-Israel, a step towards recognition by France of the State of Palestine.
“I voted for its transformation into a friendship group and regret that this development did not receive a majority vote”specifies on X the socialist Valérie Rabault, vice-president of the National Assembly.
