the shock wave extends to French politics | EUROtoday

LHemicycle standing and loud applause, as an indication of help for the individuals of Israel, after the unprecedented assault carried out on Saturday by Hamas. Tuesday, in the Assembly, the deputies of La France insoumise (LFI) have been the final to arise. They ostensibly remained with their arms hanging or crossed. In an on the spot, every thing was mentioned, whereas the disaster shaking the Middle East irrigates the French political debate, throwing harsh mild on the ulterior motives of every camp.

By placing Israel and Palestinian Hamas again to again, whereas refusing to characterize the latter as “terrorist”, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the “rebellious” have been inflicting indignation since Saturday. This technique – already at work at the time of city riots or on the topic of police violence – goals to appeal to an electoral clientele, whereas Mr. Mélenchon achieved, in 2022, vital scores in neighborhoods the place the Palestinian trigger is embraced by younger individuals from North African immigration. But it threatens an already moribund New Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nupes). Some members of the left alliance are actually brazenly asking the query of remaining there, whereas the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, has continued, since Saturday, to distinguish himself from his LFI ally.

“Rebellious” radicalism has one other, mirrored consequence: it completes the try at normalization by the National Rally (RN) which, for its half, condemned terrorist acts with the best firmness and despatched a delegation on Monday to the Trocadéro. , at the demonstration of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France. Tuesday, in the Assembly, Marine Le Pen reaffirmed “solemnly” its help for the individuals of Israel, victims of “pogroms”whereas criticizing those that “excuse” Or “relativize”. She additionally referred to as for “protect the French Jews”.

This operation was rigorously ready, each phrase rigorously thought of. Condemning with the best firmness the Hamas assault, whereas declaring the ambiguities of LFI, permits the chief of the RN to flip the web page on the anti-Semitic or negationist outbursts of which Jean-Marie Le Pen was customary, thus persevering with the liquidation of the paternal inheritance. “She makes exactly the same remarks as the government parties, with an added security and anti-Muslim touch”notes François Hollande’s former advisor, Gaspard Gantzer.

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Consequence: the pariah cloak which has lengthy enveloped the shoulders of the leaders of the RN is now discovered on these of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the “new scarecrow of French politics”, in accordance to the secretary basic of the Jean Jaurès Foundation, Gilles Finchelstein. The strategists of the far-right get together, who know that there can’t be two “devils” at the identical time, need to see this as a turning level. At the RN, we additionally cite the latest work of IFOP pollster Jérôme Fourquet, during which the latter describes a shift to the proper, and even to the excessive proper, of a Jewish voters which, traditionally, voted on the left.

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