The international, often anaesthetized debate loses even more intensity at a time when the pension reform crisis is taking a new turn. Yet quietly he continues to criss-cross the political class. Tuesday March 21 morning, on Franceinfo, the coordinator of La France insoumise (LFI), Manuel Bompard, questioned about the issuance of an international arrest warrant for war crimes against Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court (ICC), estimated: “I’m not sure , whether it brings much, I find China’s initiative to propose a peace plan more interesting, it is something that can be a solution. “France had better try to participate in a coordinated initiative,” he added.
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The passage startled Renaissance MEPs and reactivated divisions over the Ukraine conflict at a time when the Hague is accusing the Russian president of “deporting” thousands of Ukrainian children. Val-d’Oise MP Arnaud Le Gall (LFI), adviser on international affairs to the parliamentary group, explains: “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 Ukraine. »
The Val-d’Oise MP has long argued the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court, but adds that “it sends a strong message to remind people that Putin committed war crimes.” As for China, “it is trying (…) to play a mediating role while maintaining its relations with Russia,” he says, noting that “Beijing has pushed its calculations through the blank space left by the West in the field of mediation , looks relieved. The “rebels” see the statements of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as proof of this: The latter rated February 24 as “positive”, “that China is starting to talk about Ukraine”.
forever divided
The position of the LFI remains at odds with that of the majority of deputies in the National Assembly. The debate on Ukraine is also scheduled to return to the plenary chamber next week. On Tuesday evening at the Palais-Bourbon, MEPs from the Macronists, Les Républicains, Socialistes, Ecologists and the group Libertés, Independants, Overseas and Territories (LIOT) gathered for a conference in anticipation of the trial of the transpartisan in a week’s motion for a resolution “to recognize and condemn the great famine of 1932-1933 [en URSS], known as the Holodomor, as genocide”. Either all members of the “Republican arc”, we emphasize on the Renaissance side. Communists, “rebels” and members of the National Assembly will not participate.
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