Mathilde Panot, president of the La France Insoumise parliamentary group, in Paris on June 17, 2026. (Credit: Guillaume Baptiste/AFP)
The parliamentary group La France Insoumise, through its president, Mathilde Panot, on Monday asked the government to organize a debate in the National Assembly on the situation in the Middle East, in a letter addressed to Sébastien Lecornu and published on X.
According to Panot, the signing of the memorandum of agreement between Iran and the United States on June 17 constitutes a "new diplomatic development" that "brings certainties and many questions."
"In this context, the national representation must be able to debate the situation and the role that France might be called to play," the group said.
LFI MPs consider in particular that France's possible participation in a mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz, mentioned by President Emmanuel Macron during the G7 summit in Evian, "would commit the Nation and fully justifies a debate before Parliament."
The group also wants clarification on the government's position regarding the renewal of the mandate of "more than 700 French soldiers engaged with UNIFIL in Lebanon."
Finally, LFI MPs want to discuss France's actions, which they consider insufficient, in favor "of maintaining the conditions for a viable and contiguous State of Palestine, ending the colonization of the West Bank and stopping the genocide in Gaza."
Mathilde Panot asked the prime minister to invoke Article 50-1 of the Constitution, which would take the form of a government declaration followed by interventions from each parliamentary group.
The debate would have no legislative value but could result in a vote that would not engage the responsibility of the government.
