It's a controversial word: "survivor".
The term was used Wednesday in the National Assembly by Mathilde Panot, the president of the group of La France Insoumise (LFI).
She thus responded to the general policy speech of the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne.
“Madame Borne, it must be said, you are a survivor.
You are the worst elected Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic,” said Mathilde Panot.
In France, a Prime Minister is not elected but appointed by the President of the Republic according to the weight of the political groups in the National Assembly.
Mathilde Panot explains that she referred to the fact that the majority group in the lower house of parliament only has a relative majority, which is not a first under the Fifth Republic, but with a total number of elected officials that is particularly far apart. of an absolute majority.
Appointed before the legislative elections, Elisabeth Borne was however kept in office by the Head of State, Emmanuel Macron.
" Dishonest "
Several people, like the MEP Raphaël Enthoven, however denounce the use of the word “survivor”.
A Jew, Elisabeth Borne's father was deported during the Second World War (1039-1945).
This resistance fighter was sent to the Auschwitz camp by the Nazis.
Raphaël Enthoven wonders if it is "ignorance or deliberate monstrosity" on the part of the elected LFI.
He also refers to Jean-Marie Le Pen, former president of the National Front, which became National Rally, who made an anti-Semitic joke in the 1980s. About the politician Michel Durafour, he had spoken of Durafour-crématoire, in reference to the crematory ovens used in the Nazi extermination camps.
Dishonest.
I used the word in the sense of "saved narrowly by Macronie".
No reference to his terrible family history.
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– Mathilde Panot (@MathildePanot) July 6, 2022
Mathilde Panot says that Raphaël Enthoven's process is "dishonest".
I used the word in the sense of "saved narrowly by Macronie".
