One week before the second round of the presidential election, ” we do not give voting instructions “, said Bishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort to the newspaperThe Parisian Sunday. Archbishop of Reims, this prelate has just been re-elected president of the Conference of Bishops. On this Easter Sunday – the most important feast of Christianity – the head of the Church of France is therefore careful not to launch the slightest appeal to Catholic voters in favor of this or that. ” But we want everyone to question the meaning and consequences of their vote, for themselves and for the human family. “, he completes. If they vote, it is up to Christian voters to choose which ballot they will slip into the ballot box, but ” anyway, adds Bishop de Moulins-Beaufort in Le Parisien Dimanche, between the two candidates and their conception of life, neither is completely satisfactory from our point of view “.
The “ neither nor » by LFI
No more voting instructions from France rebellious. On the evening of the first round, its leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon said: “ not a voice for Marine Le Pen “. A week from the second, his party remains with this antiphrase.
“ We will not call to vote for Emmanuel Macron, who has destroyed our country for five years. It’s up to Macron to convince “, says the deputy Mathilde Panot in The Sunday Journal.
President of the LFI group in the National Assembly, the deputy of the 10and constituency of the department of Val-de-Marne, near Paris, mentioned elsewhere in The JDD the discussions to come within the left, ecologists included, with a view to the legislative elections next June. ” We want to be the majority to govern this country “, she says to the Sunday newspaper.
Vae victis for socialists
Discussions, yes, but not with the Socialist Party. Reproaching her candidate Anne Hidalgo for her frontal attacks against Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the last weeks of the first-round electoral campaign, Mathilde Panot slams the door in the face of the socialists. With the PS, there will be no discussions, and this refusal is final “, she decides in The JDD. Vae victis…
The France of beavers
We see the absence of voting instructions for next Sunday becomes a point of political tension in this final stretch of the presidential election. For the weekly Paris Match, for example, if Nicolas Sarkozy’s call to vote for Macron in the second round is contrary to the “ni-nor” advocated by many of his friends, this “alliance” with Emmanuel Macron is, according to the former French president, “ the only way to prevent the disappearance of the right of government “, explains this weekly, in reference to the collapse, in the ballot boxes, of the party Les Républicains, have the candidate, Valérie Pécresse, collected 4.8% of the votes in the first round, last Sunday, below the bar of 5 % from which a party is reimbursed for its campaign expenses within the limits set by law.
But as Nicolas Sarkozy is not the only one to have called to vote Macron, Le Figaro Magazine quips on ” France of beavers “. Because, as this weekly underlines, “ most of the candidates called for “blocking the far right”. Here are the voters turned into beavers », teases The Fig Mag.
Sankara, the “He” African
Tribute, finally, to Thomas Sankara in the magazine press this week. The trial of the assassins of the former Burkinabè president now over, his successor Blaise Compaoré having been found guilty of his assassination, more than ever, Sankara is a true African icon. And not just in Africa.
In France also. This is what notices Mr. the newspaper magazine The world. Report in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris, where a 33-meter high fresco in the image of Thomas Sankara dominates a city street. Painted on the wall of a building, it represents the former president of the country of men of integrity, voluntary gaze, clenched fist. ” The revolutionary ideas of the man who opposed corruption as much as imperialism resonate strongly in France among young people and in pop culture. “, assures M. Magazine for which, also, Thomas Sankara is ” the African Che “.