Almost unanimously, the National Assembly has just voted this Thursday morning in favor of a motion for a resolution recognizing and condemning the "
genocidal character of the systematic political violence as well as the crimes against humanity currently perpetrated by the People's Republic of China in the 'regard to the Uyghurs
'.
By 169 votes for, one vote against and five abstentions, France joins Canada, the United States and Ireland.
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“
To misname things is to add to the misfortune of the world
”, had launched the socialist Olivier Faure at the podium, considering that it was a “
duty to qualify the martyrdom that the Uyghur minority is undergoing today in China
" and that it was up to the French deputies to "
break the silence
".
This text carried by the PS group within the framework of its parliamentary niche does not however have a binding scope, but is of symbolic importance, two weeks before the opening of the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
The Insoumis group abstained
If the proposal received the support of the deputies of the majority, the four deputies of rebellious France present in the hemicycle abstained.
MP Clémentine Autain specifying that she prefers the term “
crime against humanity
” to that of “
genocide
”.
Reacting to this instruction, Patrick Mennucci, former PS deputy and member of Anne Hidalgo's campaign team, does not find it "
surprising that the Insoumis did not vote
", affirming that "
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is marked with the Chinese Communist Party
”.
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The communist deputy for Seine-Maritime Jean-Paul Lecoq also abstained from voting in this election, denouncing beforehand a resolution which was "
not up to the challenges
", and maintaining that the recognition of genocide "
does not belong to the legislator but to the international judge
", and that this motion for a resolution would maintain a kind of "
unhealthy memory competition
".
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