Marine Le Pen (RN) and Mathilde Panot (LFI) judged Emmanuel Macron’s remarks “inappropriate” and “indecent” on Thursday, considering that Qatar was organizing the Football World Cup “very well” while this country is targeted by an investigation into suspicions of corruption in the European Parliament.
“The compliments made to Qatar (by the President of the Republic, editor’s note) when a very serious affair of corruption of European authorities by Qatar has just exploded seems to me particularly out of place”, declared the leader of the deputies National Rally , questioned on the sidelines of an interview at Matignon on pensions.
“Indecent” remarks for Mathilde Panot
Marine Le Pen’s party, formerly the National Front, has been the subject of several investigations and indictments for suspicions of fictitious jobs of European parliamentary assistants in recent years. Mathilde Panot, leader of the LFI deputies, judged on Public Senate “indecent that Emmanuel Macron and his government somehow endorse what happened in this World Cup”.
“Emmanuel Macron is one of those who said that Qatar organized this World Cup well, that Qatar was making progress on a number of points and, at the same time, you have a scandal like no other. has ever had, in the European Parliament”, she noted.
Emmanuel Macron assumes
What “shocks” is “not so much his presence (in Qatar) as the fact that he never had a word of criticism of this World Cup”, estimated for his part the ecologist deputy Sandrine Rousseau on LCI. “I never heard him denounce the 6,000 people who died building the stadiums” or “have a single word about ecology or LGBT people”.
The French president said Thursday “totally” assume the fact of going to support the French team in Qatar. Sporting events “are there to bring people together and so that sometimes nations that do not know how to talk to each other politically can talk to each other”, he added on Wednesday after the qualification of the Blues in the final of the World Cup, believing that Qatar was organizing “very good” this Cup.
“On the banned LGBT colors, there are plenty of things that we must continue to settle, plenty of countries where things have to be settled,” he said.