NARRATIVE – Part of the left presss some mayors to suspend their partnerships with Israeli cities, invoking the humanitarian emergency in Gaza. Initiatives far from fortuitous with the approach of the municipal elections of spring 2026.
As often when the left is tearing, everything leaves Jean-Luc Mélenchon. In early June, the rebellious leader welcomes, a supporting photo, on the social network X, of a supposed rupture of the links between Val-de-Reuil (Eure) and the Israeli city of Meitar, with which the municipality is, a priori, twin. In his eyes, this gesture expresses the “protest” of the Norman municipality “Against the genocide of the Palestinians perpetrated by (Benyamin) Netanyahu » And translates his concern to the humanitarian emergency in Gaza. Problem: this twinning had in truth ended over twenty years ago, as the mayor PS Marc-Antoine Jamet recalled. A break, said the latter, which was not justified by considerations “ideologicalBut for strictly reasons “Administrative and financial”.
The rectification may come from the councilor himself, she struggles to convince the rebellious, starting with Alma Dufour, deputy of Seine-Maritime, who quickly caught up in her colleague …
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