Renaissance, Emmanuel Macron’s party, returned to Bordeaux this weekend. A campus focused on the 2024 European elections, but the violence in Israel has obviously impacted the program. The presidential majority gave its support to Israel and attacked La France insoumise, accused of appeasement with Hamas.
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With our special correspondent in Bordeaux, Julien Chavanne
“ Before we begin, I suggest that we express to the Israeli people our solidarity, our support… » Impossible for Stéphane Séjourné to start his speech any other way. The boss of Renaissance repeated his condemnation of the attacks against Israel all weekend.
Support and political controversy. The former head of government and mayor of Le Havre, Édouard Philippe, targeted La France insoumise and Jean-Luc Mélenchon, accused by the “macronie” of justifying the Hamas attack: “ When we want to firmly condemn these attacks, we do not put a caveat, we do not associate immediately after the condemnation a “but” which would come… I don’t know what else. We strongly condemn terrible, inexcusable attacks. »
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Anti-Semitism?
Response also from the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne: “ On the far left, verbal violence is assumed, the search for chaos claimed, and the ambiguities revolting in the face of the drama of these last hours. »
“ Anti-Zionism » of LFI is “ sometimes also a way of masking a form of anti-Semitism », asserts Élisabeth Borne a little later on BFM, the head of government determined not to let Jean-Luc Mélenchon miss anything.