Recognition of the State of Palestine: in France, the "common base" a little more shaken

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Laurent Wauquiez and Bruno Retailleau, June 2 at Matignon. (Magali Cohen/Hans Lucas. AFP)
Recognition of a Palestinian state? A no-brainer for the government's restless supporters. The "Gaullist political family" has "always been in favor of it, " LR swears in a press release. "We've been saying this since François Mitterrand," adds left-wing Macronist MP Ludovic Mendes, referring to the Socialist president's address to the Knesset in 1982. Except that nothing is clear anymore when it comes to Emmanuel Macron's decision to proceed with it in September , during the United Nations General Assembly.
The right is offended to see the head of state take this step without obtaining the preconditions
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