Marine Le Pen‘s far-right party National Rally suffered a major disappointment in the French parliamentary elections on Sunday evening, as it received considerably fewer seats at the National Assembly than polls predicted.
Simultaneously, far-left leader in France Melenchon announced, “A left-wing government will recognize the State of Palestine as soon as possible.”
French election dynamics
Friends of the Netanya Academic College Association Chairman Claude Brightman told Maariv, “As far as we are concerned, this is terrible. They do not hide it; they are Palestinians and the fact that there is a connection to the Islamic community and Macron’s [alleged intention] that part of the left and the center would be together.”
Reuters contributed to this article.
