France Opinion

Macron's ever-changing stance in face of the far-right

The remains of the Communist wartime Resistance members Missak and Mélinée Manouchian were transferred to the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris on Wednesday, amid an official ceremony of homage led by President Emmanuel Macron. Prior to the event, he called on members of the far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party to abstain from attending, adding in an interview that they were not part of France’s “republican arc”. But that was simply tactical, argues Mediapart political correspondent Ellen Salvi in this op-ed article, for Macron’s positions in face of the far-right, which he has helped normalise, resemble shifting sands.

Ellen Salvi

Emmanuel Macron has a habit of varying his positions, but rarely as often as when he talks about the far-right.

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