On paper, nothing could be worse.
A World Cup organized in Qatar, a petromonarchy regularly accused of undermining respect for human rights and the ecological requirements imposed by global warming.
On its scale, the French left has never hidden its discomfort, torn between condemnation of the competition and infallible support for the Blues.
The equation became even more untenable on Wednesday evening with the thousands of French people who took to the streets - however freezing - to celebrate a new qualification for the final.
"I must say that no one can be indifferent to the popular jubilation that we have seen in the streets and which is a pleasure to see when there is incredible suffering in our country",
had to admit Mathilde Panot, the president of the LFI group, Thursday on France Inter.
The day before, the Insoumis deputies still organized a “happening” in the Assembly against this World Cup…
For months, the left has been staggering on its…
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