Resistance is organized against the France-Morocco friendship group in the Assembly, chaired by the RN – Libération

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Solid like Morocco

First group in, first served. The issue was above all symbolic, but the battle had lasted for weeks: the National Rally obtained on Monday January 13 the presidency of friendship groups of coveted countries in the Assembly, and in particular that of the France-Morocco group. Marine Le Pen’s entourage explained to AFP before this meeting that it was a “great country of diplomacy and economic development” and an actor “important in the fight against immigration”, with a “strong diaspora”. Obtaining it was therefore considered a “strong signal”. “I note with dismay the attribution of the presidency of the group to the RN”, castigated the deputy for French people abroad whose constituency includes Morocco, Karim Ben Cheikh. And the Génération·s deputy, who sits on the green group, explains that, “on principle”, he will boycott this group: “Because of the xenophobic ideas defended by this party that I have always fought, out of respect for the Moroccans of France and their families, I do not intend to sit