“We have only invited the citizens of our country. We are talking to the French, it is a civic march that we are doing,” the President of the National Assembly further pleaded 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,” declared Yaël Braun-Pivet on TF1, calling for no “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,” argued Yaël Braun-Pivet again, while more than a thousand anti-Semitic acts have been recorded in the country in one month, a record, since the bloody attacks by Hamas 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 uneasiness on the left and within the majority. Ms. Braun-Pivet specified that she had “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.
The leader of the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for his part, ruled out any presence of his people by declaring that “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 the TF1 news, referring to the French people held by Hamas.