In the midst of the presidential campaign, Ukraine will be honored this Wednesday in Parliament.

After the Italian parliament on Tuesday, it is the turn of the National Assembly and the French Senate to meet exceptionally and simultaneously at 3 p.m., despite the end of the parliamentary session, to listen to a live message from Volodymyr Zelensky, who continues interventions in national parliaments as his country faces the Russian invasion.

No less than three candidates for the Elysée, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, also deputies, will sit at the Palais-Bourbon for the 15 minutes that the Ukrainian president's video address is supposed to last.

Deliberately limited time for security reasons.

No debate after the speech

Ironically, these three candidates, to which must be added Eric Zemmour, are regularly ridiculed for their positions deemed pro-Russian.

However, there is no question of "instrumentalizing" Zelensky's message, assures an LREM parliamentary source.

“The global challenge goes beyond domestic politics”.

“There is an awareness of the French political class.

Ukraine is a subject that belongs to us because it is Europe that we are attacking, ”explains Frédéric Petit, Modem deputy of the French for Eastern Europe.

At the Palais-Bourbon as at the Palais du Luxembourg, no debate will be organized after Zelensky's message.

On the other hand, a parliamentary liaison committee will take place in the wake of Matignon.

But less than 18 days before the first round, there is no question of losing sight of the presidential campaign.

Marine Le Pen, who had initially announced that she was skipping this meeting, finally changed her mind.

“It shows that some are embarrassed at the corners”, mocks the parliamentary source LREM.

A fourth deputy also presidential candidate, the communist Fabien Roussel, is excused because of a family bereavement.

“Do not see it as a political choice,” he insisted.

In the Senate, all the group presidents should be present in the hemicycle, with the exception of the leader of the PS senators Patrick Kanner, on the move, which he "regrets".

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