Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Tunisia: Alliot-Marie under fire from critics

The words of Michèle Alliot-Marie on Tunisia are likely to leave traces. After the NPA and the Left Party, has asked Europe Ecology, Tuesday, January 18, resignation of Minister of Foreign Affairs. In a statement titled "Michele Alliot-Marie, resign!", Jean-Louis Roumégas, spokesman for the Green party, said that "for proposing the 'knowledge' of our security forces on the Tunisian authorities, the Minister Foreign is not excusable.

" "What the minister about the UMP, is that it is a priori the side of power, even a dictatorship," he says. Martine Aubry has also joined the camp of critics, but demand the resignation of the minister. It held that Ms. Alliot-Marie "should itself draw the consequences of a serious error, which makes us lose credibility, not only in Tunisia." "I do not controversial, it probably does not mean that it would send troops, but finally, when people are trying to fight with extraordinary dignity to restore democracy and that France, land of freedom , the French Republic, is there on the withdrawal, it is incomprehensible to the world is incomprehensible to the people of Tunisia, is a mistake vis-à-vis her major, "he told the mayor of Lille France 2, Tuesday.

The group's president and Communist Party left the Senate, Nicole Borvo Cohen-Seat, has also asked Tuesday meeting, the resignation of the minister. "We ask you to honor your country MmeAlliot Mary draws conclusions and presents his resignation," said Senator of Paris, in a point of order, at the opening of the meeting devoted to a discussion on policy issues foreign.

Explanations of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, on France 2 Monday and Tuesday, the National Assembly, did not satisfy the critics. "My remarks may have been misinterpreted and distorted sometimes," she said before the members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, arguing that it had "meant one thing: my sensitivity to the suffering of Tunisians in these events.

" "I basically said that I deplored the disproportionate use of force", she has defended. Several members were concerned at the response. "We knew we were badly governed inside, but outside we see today that we have more diplomacy!", Launched the Socialist Gaëtan Gorce. "It will take considerable time for the The image of France is recovering from a political mistake like that, whatever the pedaling who can convince anyone, "rebuked the spokesman of PS members, Alain Vidal.

"The assessment of the situation in Tunisia, the government is not the only cause: there is a French oligarchy which had close ties with Ben Ali and said nothing (...). S ' is added to that position incomprehensible and scandalous Alliot-Marie, "insisted the sovereignty MP Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.

At right, several members of government are on the frontlines to defend the Minister of Foreign Affairs. "I would first like to express my confidence to Michele Alliot-Marie and dishonest exploitation regret that you make of his remarks," said Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, head of the PS group, which called on Mrs.

Alliot-Marie that she had drawn the consequences of his statements. "I hear the criticism that you made and I could, to respond, quote extensively from the very nice speech by Lionel Jospin in October 1997 when he received at Matignon President Ben Ali", has defended it. "I could also mention the good report given to the government by Ben Ali Dominique Strauss-Kahn in October 2008 just minutes after receiving the highest decoration a Tunisian president but I will not because it is not up to the challenge the Tunisian people faces! "Francois Fillon also launched.

"We need to stop making a false trial Michèle Alliot-Marie", also launched the European Affairs Minister, Laurent Wauquiez. He also blamed the Socialists for the delay to exclude the party of Mr. Ben Ali, the RCD, the Socialist International, where its representatives had "always been very well received, especially by the French socialists," he statement.

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