Elected since 2013, the Franco-Israeli MP Meyer Habib lost his seat. He was beaten by the Macronist Caroline Yadan, in the 8th constituency of French people abroad, which includes several countries around the Mediterranean: Italy, Malta, Turkey, Cyprus and especially Israel, Meyer Habib’s stronghold.
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem, Sami Boukhelifa
” It’s only a good bye ” reacts Meyer Habib following his defeat. He appears in a video in Jerusalem, at the foot of an Israeli flag at the Wailing Wall, the holiest place in Judaism. In the part of the city annexed by the Hebrew state.
He spoke out to attack in particular his opponent Caroline Yadan, from the presidential majority, who won the seat of the 8th constituency of French people abroad. Although she is also Jewish, he accuses her of having allied herself ” has the anti-Semitic far left ” to snatch this victory.
A member of parliament close to the Israeli religious radical right
Meyer Habib, close to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuleads campaigns exclusively focused on Israel. He is known for relaying the language of the Israeli religious radical right. For example, he refutes the illegal colonization of Palestinian territories by Israel. In 2022, he even received at the National Assembly in France, the Israeli deputy Bezalel SmotrichJewish supremacist, self-proclaimed racist and ” proud homophobe “, who has since become Minister of Finance of the Hebrew State.
During the last legislative elections of 2022, Meyer Habib did not hesitate to involve rabbis in his electoral campaign. In France, the Constitutional Council had also annulled his election, noting “ irregularities and maneuvers “, of a nature to alter” the sincerity of the vote “.
Meyer Habib was finally re-elected in 2023, but he now loses his seat after eleven years in the National Assembly.
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