Where we did not expect him. When we didn’t expect him anymore. At the heart of the summer, on the eve of a first weekend of Chasé-Croisé, while the deputies and the senators have left the banks of Paris for days: this is the moment chosen by Emmanuel Macron, Thursday, July 24, to announce that France was preparing to recognize the State of Palestine, in September, on the occasion of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). A less surprising announcement than its timing and the internal consequences it arouses.
Some see it as a communicational maneuver to regain control, according to the expression consecrated, on a political agenda where the controversies undermined the executive flourish. Exit the harsh criticisms of the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, in an interview with the far -right weekly Current values, Or the judicial affairs that aim for the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati. Also exit the petition against the DUPLOM law to nearly two million signatures.
However, this decision is only the fruit of a will already expressed by Emmanuel Macron for several months. On the sidelines of a trip to Egypt, in April, he declared on the France 5 channel that it was necessary “Go to recognition of the Palestinian state and therefore, in the coming months, we will go”.
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