Italy: France attentive to "respect" for human rights and abortion, promises Borne

Europe 1 with AFP 11:56 a.m., September 26, 2022

France will be "attentive" to "respect" for human rights and the right to abortion in Italy after the victory of the post-fascist party of Giorgia Meloni on Sunday in the legislative elections, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne warned on Monday.

"Of course, we will be attentive, (with) the President of the European Commission (Ursula von der Leyen), that these values ​​on human rights, on respect for each other, in particular respect for the right to abortion, be respected by all", she declared on the BFMTV channel.

Ms. Borne, however, considered that it "should not skip the stages" and recalled that it "is now up to the President of the Republic (Sergio Mattarella) to appoint the President or the President of the Council". 

Meloni congratulated by Le Pen and Zemmour

In the camp of the presidential majority, the president of the MoDem (center) François Bayrou affirmed on FranceInfo that "we feel the kind of wave, of drift in all Europe. There is a very great concern among the peoples to whom we must respond".

The French far right, on the other hand, hailed the victory of Giorgia Meloni in the legislative elections in Italy, where for the first time since 1945 a post-fascist party came to power.

"The Italian people have decided to take their destiny into their own hands by electing a patriotic and sovereignist government", wrote Marine Le Pen of the National Rally (RN) on Twitter, congratulating Giorgia Meloni and the head of the League Matteo Salvini, "for having resisted the threats of an anti-democratic and arrogant European Union".

On RTL, his niece Marion Maréchal, former RN deputy who became vice-president of far-right polemicist Éric Zemmour's party, Reconquête!, denied that Fratelli "is a factually far-right party", while pleading for " a right-wing coalition" in France like the one that won in Italy, but also in Sweden two weeks ago.

"We cannot transpose the Italian or Swedish system to the French system", affirmed for his part on Public Sénat the mayor LR of Chalon-sur-Saône Gilles Platret.

"I am not in a logic of union, we must rebuild a republican right and it is around this that we can rebuild the confidence of the French people", added Mr. Platret, "still in reflection" on the idea of ​​running himself as a candidate for the presidency of LR.

For MEP LR François-Xavier Bellamy, "it is madness to make people believe that 25% of Italians are fascists. Also excluding the idea of ​​a union of the rights, he estimated that "in France what matters is to unite the right, not by bringing together the parties, but the voters, and by rebuilding a right-wing party capable of finally attracting all right-wing voters". "The real danger for Europe this n 'is not Giorgia Meloni, it's that the