She will eventually have come from abroad.
National union, often invoked, had until then refused to Emmanuel Macron.
What do the crises that have littered his five-year term matter?
From "yellow vests" to the coronavirus pandemic, including terrorist attacks ... His opposition will never have truly disarmed to support him.
This was without counting the attacks suffered in recent days by the Head of State from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Who, in yet another provocation, accused him of having a
"problem"
with Islam, even prescribing
"mental health exams."
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Somewhat lonely in the face of these excesses on the European scene, the Élysée did not, on its own soil, denounce these
“unacceptable remarks”
in a solitary manner.
The head of state will have found support among his usual scorners on the national scene.
First of them, Marine Le Pen.
The president of the National Rally (RN), never stingy in arrows against the executive, has been among the most critical of the government's management of the Covid-19 epidemic.
In the aftermath of the Conflans-Sainte-Honorine attack, it was the first to sweep away any idea of
“national union”
.
And yet.
Guest of the “Grand Jury RTL-
Le Figaro
-LCI” on Sunday, the member for Pas-de-Calais assured:
“Obviously, faced with this direct attack by Mr. Erdogan, I am defending the President of the French Republic.”
On the set of "4 Vérités", on France 2, this Monday, the vice-president of the RN, Jordan Bardella completes: facing this
"Islamist sultan, it is not Emmanuel Macron that I approve, but the president of the Republic.
Because it is France that is under attack ”.
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Erdogan, an aggressive sultan who challenges the European Union
More united
Criticism of the Head of State, including the day after the assassination of Samuel Paty, the leaders of the Republicans party will have shown themselves, this time, more united.
"We must support the Head of State,"
assures
Le Figaro
the head of the LR delegation to the European Parliament, François-Xavier Bellamy.
It is not so much a political support, as an absolute refusal of this blackmail by Erdogan who wants to make Emmanuel Macron pay for his firm opposition to his destabilization operations in the Mediterranean. "
Guest of the Sunday program of France 3, "Sunday in politics", the leader of the deputies LR Damien Abad also hammered:
"These are intolerable insults towards the President of the Republic
.
Our role is to differentiate the fundamentalist from the Muslim, and in fact, Erdogan makes a voluntary amalgamation to encourage Islamism. "
These are intolerable insults towards the President of the Republic.
Our role is to differentiate the fundamentalist from the Muslim, and in fact, Erdogan makes a voluntary amalgamation to encourage Islamism.
Damien Abad
Even within the ranks of the Socialist Party, it is as a whole behind the Head of State that we react to the remarks of the Turkish president.
"Mr.
Erdogan is used to these turpitudes,
replied to the microphone of
Sud Radio
Monday the Socialist deputy of Landes Boris Vallaud.
He is in a confusion of values and feelings.
His base invective impress no one! "
On Twitter, the national secretary of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, outbid:
“President Erdogan insults France and our values inherited from the French Revolution.
We will not be intimidated by anyone.
And even less by those who flout, at home, the elementary rules of democracy and freedom of expression. "
To this rivalry of testimonies of support for the Head of State and of charges against the Turkish authorities, a political official however preferred to take issue: Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Guest of the morning of France Inter, Monday morning, the leader of La France rebellious refused to support Emmanuel Macron:
“I have done it several times, I will not do it again.
He's totally lost control of the situation,
he snapped.
France is demeaned, humiliated and ridiculed.
What is Macron's international strategy?
What does he plan to do apart from tweets? ”
An exit which will not help its political formation to come off the label of "Islamo-leftist" of which its founder complains so much.
