Against the choice of Michel Barnier as Prime Minister by Emmanuel Macron said Gaulikos, former Prime Minister of France, Dominique de Villepin.
Invited to the festival of the French Communist Party’s Humanité newspaper, its former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac did not hesitate to mock his former party, the Republicans. “It is a party that came last in the elections, but it forms the government,” said de Villepin, adding ironically: “We therefore recognize that this choice has value, because it gives substance to the evangelical saying: the first shall be last and the last first.”
Dominique de Villepin accused Michel Barnier a few days ago that he should “seek his legitimacy with his own hands, build it”.
The former prime minister even took the opportunity at the Humanite Festival to support the left-wing New Popular Front: “There was a force that emerged at the top, we had to give it a chance,” he told the left-wing audience, who burst into applause. He also estimated that it was not up to President Macron to judge whether a left-wing government “would last over time.”
The “invisible” Gaza
de Villepin, who went down in history as his foreign minister from France for the “no” vote to the 2003 Iraq war, he spoke of an “invisible war in Gaza” and of a silence surrounding the “greatest historical scandal” that “no one talks about anymore.”
“The drama of Gaza,” Villepin said, “which further aggravates the frustration of many peoples of the Global South, is the invisibility of death, the silence of the dead in Gaza.” As he said, “it is not a question of denying the horror, nor the brutality, nor the terrorism that appeared on October 7, but all these deaths have a face. How do we mourn these deaths that do not exist?”
Former Prime Minister under President Jacques Chirac between 2005 and 2007 and a staunch defender of balanced Gallic diplomacy, he has become the favorite “son” of the French left.
Relatively low-key until recently, de Villepin made a notable comeback in the media after the terror attacks in Israel. On October 12, he appeared on France Inter and said he was “surprised by the scale, the horror and the brutality” of the Hamas attack, but said he was not surprised by “this hatred that was expressed” from “this open-air prison” in the Gaza Strip.
