The Ukrainian president emphasized the duty of hexagonal companies to leave Russia. A measure that divides the French political class, before the presidential election.
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Emus parliamentarians, words for history and a war that continues to dominate the French political debate. At eighteen days of the presidential election, the intervention before the National Representation of the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wednesday, March 23, recalled that the war in Ukraine would mark the election campaign, perhaps until the end. “It will make tomorrow a month that Ukrainians are fighting for their freedom,” said Zelensky.
From the Palais-Bourbon to the Luxembourg Palace, MPs and senators gathered in numbers in their respective hemicycles listened for over fifteen minutes, at the same time solemn and martial, of the President of the Ukrainian Republic. Camped behind his office, in kyiv, and dressed in his eternal Khaki military t-shirt, the blue and yellow flag of Ukraine at his side, Mr. Zelensky took to witness the elected officials but also through them, the Together French citizens on the war led by the Kremlin. Between several references to French history and culture, the Ukrainian president requested support for weapons equipment.
Especially, he called on French companies still present on the Russian market, like Renault (who decided to suspend his industrial activity in Russia Wednesday, March 23rd to the evening), Auchan and Leroy-Merlin, to leave him. “They must stop being the sponsors of the Russian War Machine,” said Zelensky.
His speech – whose understanding has sometimes been made difficult by simultaneous translation – was preceded by a remarks of the President of the Senate, Gérard Lacher, and then the President of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand. “Ukraine belongs to the European family”, greeted the first, when the second condemned “indiscriminate bombing targeting civilian populations”. Several bursts of applause and a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the conflict punctuated this unprecedented moment, also marked by the presence of the Ambassador of Ukraine in Paris, Vadym Omélchenko.
An additional step in this unprecedented tour of the Western parliaments, started by Mr. Zelensky in the aftermath of the beginning of the Russian offensive in Ukraine on February 24. European Parliaments, British, Canadian, then the American Congress, the Bundestag, Germany, the Knesset, in Israel, the Italian and even Japanese parliaments yesterday and today … The Ukrainian President has thus addressed to all elected representatives of G7 Member States.
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