Members and senators played the unit’s card during the discussion without a vote convened by the Prime Minister Jean Castex. Jean-Luc Mélenchon and others were accused of “compromises” against Russia.
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Haro on extremes and nationalisms. In Parliament, on Tuesday, Deputies and senators unanimously condemned the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, on the sixth day of an armed offensive that now stacks Kiev, the Ukrainian capital. “France condemns the most absolute way this cynical and premeditated aggression,” said Prime Minister Jean Castex, inaugurating in the haemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon nearly seven hours of declarations, on behalf of Article 50- 1 of the Constitution.
A debate without vote or direct exchanges, listened attentively, from the stands, by the Ukrainian Ambassador Vadym Omelianko, installed between two flags in the colors of his country. At the National Assembly, six presidents of parliamentary group, two presidential candidates and three deputies from the Foreign Affairs and European Affairs Committees have succeeded the Tribune. “We know it: this war will last and leave traces,” said the President of the group the Republic in March (LRM) at the National Assembly, Christophe Castaner.
Where usually the criticisms of oppositions are heard against the decisions of the executive and the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, the parliamentarians have targeted this time in unison the speech “complacent “From some to the Kremlin. Damien Abad, the leader of the deputies The Republicans (LR), denounced “unhealthy fascination for the Putin model” of “Mr. Zemmour, M Me Le Pen and Mr. Mélenchon, who Throw an irreversible discredit on their ability to run our country “. Before him, the president of the group freedoms and territories, Bertrand Pancher, pushed the same door: “Now they make believe that they are for peace, do not let us know, what they admired again and admire to Putin, C ‘ is its brutality and renunciation of democracy. “
Jean-Luc Mélenchon Hue
Present in the hemicycle, the candidate France unsuitable for the presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, had to answer the accusations of “compromises”. Taken up in recent days between its past positions and the reality of a war at the expense of Ukrainians and the West by Vladimir Putin, he declared himself unfavorable to the European Union’s will to send weapons to the Ukrainian people. “Or diplomacy or total war”, he warned in his message of support “to peace”.
Hue from all benches except those of his colleagues “Insoumit”, Mr. Mélenchon has given up a sentence in his entirety in his speech: “Whatever the causes of the invasion of Ukraine, and We know the long genesis in the NATO extension policy, nothing can excuse it. “The argument has certainly made long fire in a hemicycle acquired to the transatlantic strategy. “Some would like, in this assembly or outside, to return back to the back NATO and Russia: they go wrong,” defended the President of the Socialist Group, Valérie Rabault.
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