On June 16, following President Emmanuel Macron’s call for snap elections, the French Freemasons of five organisations, under the initiative of the Grand Orient of France (GODF), issued a statement calling brothers and sisters to engage against the rise of Marine Le Pen’s party.
Their Grand Masters warned French society about the risk of “the most reactionary forces,” calling into question the Enlightenment philosophy’s fundamentals, which are sources of progress.
After Sunday’s vote and the decision of the republican parties, including the government’s Renaissance, the left and the Republicans, to establish alliances aiming to stop a far-right victory, the Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France (GODF) Guillaume Trichard urged French citizens to prevent the far-right from becoming a majority.
“Everything must be done to prevent the far right from becoming a majority next Sunday in the National Assembly. It is an absolute priority to safeguard #République and its principles of #liberté, #égalité and #fraternité. Then, it will be urgent to work to repair #République because the current political crisis has its roots in the real difficulties, even the distress, of French people,” Trichard posted on X.
“The #francsmaçons of @GODFOfficiel will engage in this approach, faithful to the History, principles and values of their Obedience,” he noted.
The 250-year-old GODF is the oldest and largest of several Freemasonic organisations in France, and it is considered the “mother lodge” of Continental Freemasonry, with 52 472 members (of which 6 147 are women). GODF has a notable engagement in all progressive battles in the country, including promoting the republican idea, secularism, fighting against the far-right, defence of immigrant and refugee rights and support for legalising same-sex marriage.
