The President of the Republic spoke with the new Prime Minister, arousing the indignation of certain Nupes deputies.
The snapshot of Emmanuel Macron shaking hands with the new Italian President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, in Rome, makes people react. The photo, posted on Emmanuel Macron’s Twitter account, is accompanied by a message: “As Europeans, in neighboring countries, as friendly peoples, with Italy we must continue all the workcan we read. Succeeding together, with dialogue and ambition, we owe it to our youth and our peoples. Our first meeting in Rome, Giorgia Meloni, goes in this direction.And this tete-a-tete between the two political leaders is far from having won unanimous support in France.
“There is a complacency with fascism and the far right which is still incredible in Emmanuel Macron“, regretted Sandrine Rousseau, Monday, October 24 on France 2. “He is the first head of state in Europe to go see her. We could have expressed disapproval, the fact that we do not cooperate with regimes that claim to be part of the history of Mussolini,” lambasted the Green MP. The criticism joins that of certain Nupes deputies who denounce the “irresponsibilityby Emmanuel Macron.
For Bardella, this meeting “should reassure us»
“Freewheeling French fascists surf indignantly on Lola’s death. They are spreading all over Europedenounced Mathilde Panot, president of the group La France insoumise at the National Assembly. What is Emmanuel Macron doing? He runs to talk to the Italian fascist leader Meloni.And the elected representative of Seine-Saint-Denis Thomas Portes adds:Everywhere this weekend identity thugs accompanied by neo-Nazis demonstrated in the streets of the country shouting racist cries.The MP then denounced the “silenceby Gérald Darmanin and Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with the “fascistGiorgia Meloni: “Dykes become bridges.“And to the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure to conclude:”Without nuance or reservation. The trivialization without borders of the extreme right.»
On the other side of the political spectrum, the candidate for the presidency of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, estimates on LCI that this meeting “should reassure us“: “We tried to infantilize Italian voters by explaining that the post-fascists were at the gates of power. Then you realize that everything is going well (…) I hope that this Italian government will succeed in stemming this wave of migration that the whole of Europe is undergoing.»
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