French MP Sofia Shikirou, close to the leader of the radical left Jean-Luc Mélenchon has sparked outrage among senior Socialist figures, with their leader accusing her of "provocations" after she republished a post paying tribute to the leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. Ismail Hania.
This was revealed by France Press, quoted by BTA.
AFP recalls that Haniya was killed on Wednesday in the Iranian capital, Tehran, with the assassination allegedly being carried out by Israel.
Screenshots from the personal account on "Instagram" of Shikiru – People's Representative of the "Disobedient France" party from Paris – were published on the "X" platform. The deputy did not deny that she had shared a four-page publication in which tributes to the leader of "Hamas" were originally published by the civil organization "Urgents Palestine". (Emergency Palestine).
The first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, accused the MP of "provocations, the only result of which is to cause a controversy that sabotages collective work", and noted that her comments "engage only her".
The program of the New People's Front (NNP) – an alliance of left-wing parties, created for the early parliamentary elections produced at the end of June and uniting "Disobedient France", socialists, environmentalists and the Communist Party – is clear, said Faure in "X".
Another left-wing coalition – A new environmental and social people's union, emerged after the bloody attacks carried out by "Hamas" in southern Israel on October 7 last year, as the party "Disobedient France" made condemnation of Israel's war on Gaza a central theme of her campaign and was accused of "flirting" with anti-Semitism in defense of the Palestinian cause.
In its program, the New Popular Front categorically condemns the "terrorist massacres committed by "Hamas".
The president of the Socialists from the Occitania region (southwest France), Carole Delga, an advocate of breaking ties with "Rebellious France", also expressed her outrage. "Disgusting," she wrote in X, calling the repost an "apology for terrorism." and "mouthpiece of Jew-hatred".
"I will not work with MPs or a party that approves or refuses to condemn such positions," said the Socialist mayor of the city of Rouen, Nicolas Meyer-Rosignol, who openly opposes the alliance between his party and that of Mélenchon.
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The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism condemned Shikirou's sharing of the post, and the Union of Jewish Students in France announced it was filing a complaint for "glorification of terrorism.
France still does not have a new government after the parliamentary elections, the second round of which took place on July 7, in which the New Popular Front came out on top, but far from an absolute majority.
After long and difficult negotiations between "Rebellious France", the Socialist Party, the NNF proposed a senior civil servant unknown to the general public, Lucie Caste, as prime minister, but President Emmanuel Macron said he would not appoint a new government before the end of the Olympic Games in Paris in mid-August.