The head of state will participate on Saturday, October 9, at an official ceremony with Robert Badinter. The opportunity for him to defend “a major civilizated advance”, while Eric Zemmour, in dynamics in the polls, says “philosophically favorable” to his recovery.
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It’s a historical commemoration, which will take an eminently political dimension at six months of the presidential election. Emmanuel Macron planned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the abolition of the death penalty in France, Saturday, October 9, in Pantheon, Paris. On this occasion, the head of state will be displayed alongside a personality on the left, which alone embodies the law promulgated on October 9, 1981: Robert Badinter. The tenant of the Elysée and the former Minister of Justice of François Mitterrand will visit together the exhibition devoted to this “Capital Combat”, which stands at the Pantheon until January 2022, before pronouncing a speech. “Robert Badinter will speak and the President of the Republic will answer him,” says an executive advisor.
From his entourage, Mr. Macron hears “commemorate a major civilizational advance”, paying tribute to the three main craftsmen of the end of the death penalty in France. First Robert Badinter, so. Forty years earlier, this lawyer who became Minister of Justice had imposed as the iconic figure of the fight for abolition. His advocacy, on 17 September 1981, to the National Assembly, had convinced parliamentarians to vote the end of the use of guillotine, the next day, by 363 votes to 117. Mr. Badinter had put all his eloquence. To denounce a “justice that kills”, in a famous speech. At the time, France was only on the 35th of the world to abandon this practice, and the last of the European Community of the time.
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Other personality in the spotlight: the socialist president of the time, François Mitterrand, who promised this measure during the 1981 election campaign. “An important delegation” of the Institut François-Mitterrand, conducted by the Former Socialist Ministers Hubert Védrine and Jean-Louis Bianco, will present Saturday in the Pantheon, according to the Elysée. According to his entourage, Mr. Macron should insist on the “courage” of MM. Mitterrand and Badinter, who then led this struggle, despite a public opinion mostly favorable to the death penalty. The action of Jacques Chirac, who had the abolition in the Constitution in 2007, will also be welcomed.
During his speech, Mr. Macron should, like Mr. Badinter, plead for the death penalty to be abandoned anywhere in the world. Of the 198 United Nations States, three-quarters have abolished it. If its use goes into the world, it still remains practiced in several countries, such as China, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia or in some states of the United States.
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