The international, an often anesthetized debate, loses even more intensity at a time when the crisis around the pension reform takes a new turn. Yet, quietly, he continues to cross the political class. Tuesday, March 21 in the morning, on Franceinfo, the coordinator of La France insoumise (LFI), Manuel Bompard, questioned on the issuance of an international arrest warrant for war crimes against Vladimir Poutine by the International Criminal Court (ICC) , estimated: “I’m not sure it brings much, I find the initiative taken by China to propose a peace plan more interesting, it’s something that can be a solution. » “France would do better to try to participate in a coordinated initiative”he added.
The passage made the MEPs of the Renaissance group jump, and reactivated the divisions around the Ukrainian conflict, at a time when the Russian president is accused by The Hague of the “deportation” thousands of Ukrainian children. The deputy of Val-d’Oise Arnaud Le Gall (LFI), adviser on international issues of the parliamentary group, develops: “We have nothing against this arrest warrant, on the contrary. But it is purely symbolic: the Rome Statute [signé en 1998, qui a créé la CPI] has not been ratified by Russia, the United States or even Ukraine. »
The MP for Val-d’Oise considers the legitimacy of the ICC disputed for a long time, while adding that“the fact remains that it is a strong message to remember that Putin has committed war crimes”. As for China, it “try (…) to play a role of mediator, while preserving its relations with Russia”he said, noting that “Beijing sees its calculations facilitated by the free field left by the West in the field of mediation”. The “rebellious” point to the declarations of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as proof of this: the latter saw as ” positive “ February 24, “Let China start talking about Ukraine”.
eternally divided
Constant, the position of LFI remains at odds with that of the majority of deputies in the National Assembly. The debate around Ukraine should also return to the Hemicycle next week. Tuesday evening, inside the Palais-Bourbon, Macronist deputies, Les Républicains, Socialistes, Ecologists, and the group Libertés, Independants, Overseas and Territories (LIOT) were gathered in a conference in anticipation of the examination, in one week, of the transpartisan motion for a resolution “relating to the recognition and condemnation of the great famine of 1932-1933 [en URSS]known as the Holodomor, as genocide”. Let all the members of the“republican bow”, we underline on the side of Renaissance. Communists, “rebellious” and deputies of the National Rally will not participate.
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