In France, a string of Left-leaning French mayors said that the concept of monarchy is against the French republican system, and that they will not lower the flag at half-mast at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of England.
After the death of Elizabeth II on September 8, French President Emmanuel Macron became one of the first heads of state to express condolences for Britain's longest-lived monarch, SIA refers to foreign media. The next day, flags were lowered to half-mast in the building of the Presidential Office (Elysee Palace). Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne ordered City Hall and other public buildings to lower the French flag to half-mast next Monday. But this order was not applied among some mayors of the country.
"I respect the sorrow of our English friends but I will not put up the French flag at half mast over the municipal buildings of Bourges," Yann Galut, the chairman of the "Burges" socialist party, emphasized that France is a republic.
Faches-Thumesnil mayor Patrick Proisy, a member of the left-wing "La France Insoumise" party, also said he would not comply with the order: "No concept is further from equality than that of monarchy."
Patrice Leclerc, the chairman of the Communist Party in Gennevilliers, Paris, also announced that he would not comply with Prime Minister Borne's order.
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