Ordinarily and for 120 years,
L'Huma
never questions a sitting president.
This Friday, February 16, on the occasion of the upcoming entry of the communist resistance fighters Missak and Mélinée Manouchian into the Panthéon, Jaurès' newspaper made an exception.
For Emmanuel Macron therefore, to whose policies he strongly opposes.
In the interview published this Sunday, the President of the Republic first gave some details about Wednesday's ceremony.
It
“will mark three beats to punctuate the three major stages of Manouchian’s life.
(...) Firstly a child of the Armenian genocide, which France recognized.
He was also a worker, an internationalist, a communist, a poet.
And he was this great resistance fighter, taking all the risks for his ideals until he perished “without any hatred”.”
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To the newspaper, which asked him if the presence of Marine Le Pen,
“political heir of the executioners of Missak Manouchian”,
did not risk undermining the meaning of the ceremony, Emmanuel Macron replied that his duty was to invite
“all representatives elected by the French people”
but that those of the RN would be well advised to obey a
“spirit of decency”
and not to come.
Contradicting thereby, although in a discreet way, the recent declaration of Gabriel Attal according to which
“the republican arc is the Hemicycle”
.
The Republican arc is not the RN
For Emmanuel Macron, the RN or Reconquest, as well as
“certain people from rebellious France”
, are leaving the republican arc because they would fight its values.
Criticized by
L'Huma
who accused him of borrowing the language of the extreme right - under the pretext that he, among other infamies, used the term
"decivilization"
- Emmanuel Macron came up with a response annoyed:
“
The process of civilization is a concept of Norbert Elias
.
You are sometimes strange censors.
You end up seeing the world through the lens of the extreme right.”
Asked to justify the end of land rights in Mayotte, the Head of State recalled the context
: “it is a French department in the heart of the Comoros.
Families travel there and arrive in France, via Mayotte, where they have access to services completely unrelated to the socio-economic reality of the Archipelago.
This causes a huge draft of air.
»
Our colleagues also questioned the president about inequalities, which he accuses him of having widened.
“I reject that factually,” he replied, “inequalities have not exploded.
(...) We have reset the public services.
We spent more than 60 billion on the hospital, increased the salaries of nurses, caregivers and doctors, but also teachers like never before since 1990.”
On international policy, the head of state said he was
“open”
to recognizing a Palestinian state but wanted to do it when
“it would be useful”
.
Emmanuel Macron said he was exerting
“pressure”
on the Israeli government, believing that a democracy such as Israel
“cannot do what Israel is doing”
in Gaza.