This is the headline of L’Est Républicain: ” no traditional family photo for Elizabeth Borne’s first cabinet meeting yesterday, see the newspaper. Official government communication is already disrupted by the Damien Abad affair. And its roadmap – purchasing power, education, health, ecology – is eclipsed. »
“ The case of Damien Abad, new Minister of Solidarity, accused by two women of sexual violence that occurred more than ten years ago, has spoiled the beautiful family photo “, adds The Midi Dispatch. ” Even if one of the complaints had been dismissed, and there is to date no prosecution from the second person, the media and political noise has largely covered the small music of the Council of Ministers. »
For Releaseit is “ untenable “: ” this new case is a problem. A huge problem. The task of the government is such, the stakes of the moment so important (to rebuild the hospital, to rebuild the school, to rebuild the society) that this new team cannot start with lead soles. Damien Abad is entitled to the presumption of innocence, of course. (…) But if the Borne government wants to be able to get to work in peace, it must ask it to step back until all the light is shed on this affair. Why be intransigent? Because there has been too much abuse and impunity in the past, respond Release. Especially in the political world, because it is a place of power, and we know that power can drive people mad and take away any form of discernment. »
Purchasing power priority
Among the priorities of the new government, therefore, is purchasing power…” Macron in the spiral of purchasing power “, title Opinion. ” A bill on purchasing power, ‘everyday priority’, should be debated in July in Parliament. »
The cross wonders: ” Has Emmanuel Macron felt the wind of the ball, in the form of the score achieved by Marine Le Pen and her entire campaign devoted to purchasing power? Or is the reluctance of the bosses forcing him to speed up, at the risk of letting the public accounts slip away? ‘Pricing shield’ to protect the French from rising energy costs, ‘food voucher’ to mitigate that of food prices, but also fiscal measures, with the abolition of the audiovisual license fee, and salaries: everything is on Table. »
Retreats: when and how?
On the other hand, “ Emmanuel Macron maintains the vagueness on the pension reform » : this is the great title of the Figaro. ” Four weeks before the legislative elections, the head of state does not want to go to the front line to defend a file capable of once again setting the French against him. (…) The calendar has not changed. At the top of the state, we are still considering a review in the fall, to ‘aim’ for entry into force in ‘next January’. For the content, on the other hand, it is more vague. Especially on the starting age. This will be the subject of discussions with the social partners. »
However, comments Le FigaroIt’s urgent : ” in chronic deficit, our pay-as-you-go system is heading for disaster if nothing is done: whereas in the past, there were four working people for one retiree, this figure has fallen to 1.7 with the lengthening of life expectancy, and will drop further in the future. It is untenable over time. »
Uyghurs: Beijing’s obsession with security
Finally also on the front page, this investigation by World : “ Uighurs: at the heart of the Chinese repressive machine »
A survey published by 14 international media, including The world, therefore, based on thousands of Chinese police documents delivered to the German anthropologist Adrian Zenz by a source who demanded nothing in return. “ After several series of revelations published since 2019 by this same researcher and by NGOs, these documents shed decisive new light on the repression organized by Beijing in the Xinjiang region, peaks the evening daily. (…) They tell from the inside the obsession with security in the internment camps of the Muslim minority, which Beijing presents as training centers. Either the concrete implementation of the security apparatus intended to ‘stabilize’ Xinjiang, which the CCP says is threatened by the Muslim ‘separatists’. »
Imprisonment, handcuffs, chains, hoods, forced re-education: such is the daily life of thousands of Uighur prisoners. It is estimated that between 900,000 and 1.8 million Uighurs passed through the CCP’s internment system out of the 11 million residing in the region.