It’s crazy how the dissolution really clarified everything! This second five-year term is definitely like no other. The Attal government has already fallen, the European elections have barely ended when the president decides to call legislative elections. With the result that we know… And some sixty days later, here is Michel Barnier in Matignon. For how long?
Hollande label Bayrou
Since 2017, François Hollande has taken a look full of irony on his successor, which reflects him well. And his mockery often splashes on all those who have had the misfortune of supporting Emmanuel Macron. Example when, in front of his family, the former president declares, placidly: “There are martyrs of Macronism, François Bayrou is one: he participated but was never rewarded.” The interested party should not completely disagree with this analysis.
Attal-Wauquiez, armed peace
The election of an LFI deputy to the presidency of the Economy Committee will not leave a corpse in the closet of the new relations between Laurent Wauquiez and Gabriel Attal. In any case, this is the wish of the president of the Republican Right group: “He can’t blame me for anything and I can’t blame him for anything, we didn’t get along, that’s all, there is no had betrayal.” The idyll can continue…
Barnier speaks Brussels: “You arrive on time”
The Prime Minister, who is participating this Thursday, October 17 in a meeting of leaders of the European People’s Party, has almost unrivaled experience in France of customs and customs in Brussels. Hence the advice given by Michel Barnier – even the instruction – to the new delegate minister responsible for Europe, Benjamin Haddad, for his participation in the councils of European ministers: “You arrive on time, you do not leave in go ahead and obviously it’s a long time, you can look at your phone or your notes from time to time, but when the Latvian or the Dane speaks, you make eye contact with everyone, we listen to everyone.”
Marine Le Pen: to write or not
There are two events that have impacted the National Rally in recent days. The trial of Marine Le Pen and the publication of Jordan Bardella’s first book. The latter’s work has also awakened some ambitions in the boss of the far-right group. Isn’t it time she got back to writing? His autobiographical work, In Contreflotsremains praised by those close to him, most of whom encourage him to once again embark on a “personal story”. “The question comes up regularly, generally every two to three months,” admits a relative. But perhaps the 2027 deadline will decide it…”
The RN takes a liking to counter-proposals
After the budget, immigration. While a new immigration law has just been announced, the far-right party is already working on its own project which will contain the traditional proposals of the RN in this area. A Marine strategist would welcome a presentation “in January”. The only major constraint for the frontists: “This counter-project will have to be consistent with constitutional law.”
The rebels are hungry for cities
Gone are the days when Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s movement was only interested in the presidential election and nothing else. This time, focus on the municipal elections of 2026. “We can demonstrate that our national program can be applied locally. It’s the left by example”, justifies Manuel Bompard, coordinator of LFI. The Insoumis are looking closely at medium-sized towns, those with more than 10,000 registered on the electoral lists, and have analyzed the results of the last European elections… In 31 of them, the LFI list obtained between 30 and 40% of the votes. votes; and even more than 20% in 150 municipalities of this type. Enough to leave confident according to Mélenchon’s strategists, who are preparing for the contest in the major French metropolises and in particular Lille, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Montpellier and Marseille where the LFI list made more than 20% in the Europeans.
In these last two cities of the South, they are even ready to go against the outgoing left, led by the current mayors Michael Delafosse and Benoît Payan. “Since both of them don’t want us, we will present a list,” says Manuel Bompard. A duel between the two lefts in perspective for the greatest pleasure of their adversaries…
Hidalgo and Place Publique: the wedding is for later
Anne Hidalgo was seduced by Raphaël Glucksmann’s European campaign… So much so that some say she is still part of the essayist’s movement. “I feel very close to his ideas and those of Place publique. I even fully agree with them,” she said to Release in September, while ensuring, in the same breath, that “the fight to be waged is within the Socialist Party”. Those close to the former head of the list assure that the city councilor will soon take his card. But after all, the later the better. “If she announced her rallying to us now, she would weaken herself among her own people, analyzes a strategist of the new formation. And given that she must weigh on the next congress to remove the PS from its subservience to the Insoumis …” A condition, he said, to test the “confederation” project, which some in the PS are calling for between the two parties.
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