Villepin scandalizes the Macronists, Olivier Faure’s opponents rage – L’Express

It is a coincidence of the calendar: the European campaign will be held in parallel with the examination in Parliament of the bill on immigration. An LR leader, opposed to the text, explained to François-Xavier Bellamy that this national debate could reach him. “You will have to assume the same record as Macron in terms of European migration policy. The European pact is an EPP pact, and the president will pride himself on it. If you also have the same national record and we leave it to the RN the opposition’s monopoly on immigration, good luck to you!” The outgoing MEP, credited with 8.5% of the votes in a poll, is favorite to lead the list to the European elections.

Politicians learn nothing from their mistakes, always inclined to draw too quickly. One example among many others: Tuesday evening, Olivier Faure published a tweet in which he described the bombing of the hospital in Gaza as an “IDF war crime”. The First Secretary of the PS was forced the next day to delete his message: nothing says at this time that Israel is responsible.

Gérald Darmanin supports the amendment of LR senators which aims to replace AME (state medical aid for foreigners in an irregular situation) in AMU (emergency medical aid), which makes the government cringe. But we will also have to convince Edouard Philippe. “He reformed the AME when he was Prime Minister, he does not want people to believe that nothing has been done and is very attentive to this point,” explains a minister.

Is a referendum on end of life possible in the current state of the Constitution? Yes, says Yaël Braun-Pivet. The President of the National Assembly believes that there is a path forward depending on the way in which the bill would be written. No, answers Aurélien Rousseau. The Minister of Health has had the feasibility of the operation studied and considers that the text cannot fall within the framework of article 11, which defines the possible fields of the referendum.

At the PS, nothing was already going very well and tensions within the Nupes revived the battle at the Marseille congress. Problem, when it is necessary to oppose Olivier Faure, the opposition numbers are (almost) never there, which has the gift of annoying the clan of Hélène Geoffroy, the famous “TO1”. On October 10, during a high-risk national office since it was a question of the follow-up to be given to relations with LFI, Hélène Geoffroy’s “motion” had little taste in seeing that Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol’s comrades were for the most part absent… “Half of them were missing, always the same: Carole Delga’s team. It’s easy to play the opponent in the media, but when you have to do it at the time of decisions, “There’s no one left! You have to be there, otherwise we’ll leave the highway to Faure!” In the PS, even the opponents cannot agree…

Clearly, there is still friction between the new and old world. The Macronist troops, starting with the deputies of the Renaissance group, say they are “scandalized” by the comments of Dominique de Villepin on the subject of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On France Inter on October 12, the former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jacques Chirac notably described the Gaza Strip as an “open-air prison”, which did not please the members of the presidential majority at all. . “It’s the politics of old France seen from Paris, these are the same words that we could have used 25 years ago!, belches a manager of the Renaissance group. Really, we were all scandalized, but Villepin is working in the private sector now, he perhaps has other interests…”