On March 8, International Women's Rights Day, Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Gisèle Halimi at the Paris Courthouse.
The President of the Republic has announced his desire to include abortion in the Constitution.
“
I want today (...) to engrave the freedom of women to resort to voluntary termination of pregnancy (in the fundamental law).
(...) To solemnly assure that nothing can hinder or undo what will thus be irreversible,
” declared Emmanuel Macron.
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His son and also a lawyer, Jean-Yves Halimi, was present this evening on the set of “C à vous” to comment on this news.
"I think all feminist movements will be satisfied with it and I'm going to disappoint a few pissed off people on social networks, but she would have said
'Bravo Macron'
"
he declares as he has just seen the images of his speech at the ceremony honoring his mother.
“She was not radical”
As if to sweep away all suspicions of a possible assertion of political support, he recalls that Gisèle Halimi said
“
Bravo Jacques Chirac”
when the law on abortion was passed,
“Bravo Raymond Barre”
when the law better defining rape was passed, as she said
“Bravo Dominique De Villepin”
when the law on parity in politics was passed”
.
And yet, he emphasizes that she
“did not approve of the policy of any of these heads of government”
.
Jean-Yves Halimi remembers a
“free personality, in whom sectarianism was totally foreign”
.
He adds :
“She had this ability to defend her conventions with great energy, but she was not radical”
.
Serge Halimi absent from the ceremony
The other son of Gisèle Halimi, the journalist Serge Halimi, was however absent from the tribute paid to his mother.
A refusal motivated by political news and more particularly by the pension reform which has mobilized France for several weeks.
“An extremely unfair pension reform of which women who occupy the most difficult jobs will be the first victims
” as he declared to Agence France Presse (AFP).
Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine then questions her guest about this division of opinion within her family.
Cautious, the lawyer says he does not want to argue, before saying:
“For a few days, he has lost my telephone number, but as he is a very orderly boy, he will surely find it.
But I would simply say two things to him: a man is prevented, and it is sometimes useful to strengthen his superego
.