The former Prime Minister does not spare Emmanuel Macron. Edouard Philippe affirmed Thursday that the head of state had “killed the presidential majority” by deciding to dissolve the National Assembly, and that it would therefore be necessary to “create a new majority”. For their part, representatives of the left-wing coalition must present at a press conference on Friday noon the details of the costing of the economic program, which they intend to apply in the event of victory for their new alliance in the early legislative elections on June 30. and July 7.
Information to remember
⇒ Public deficit: Bruno Le Maire’s new promise
⇒ The costing of the program of the New Popular Front
⇒ For Edouard Philippe, “Macron killed the presidential majority”
Public deficit: Bruno Le Maire’s new promise
He keeps it as an achievable goal. The French Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, promised on Friday to reduce the country’s budget deficit to 3% of GDP in 2027 in the event of victory in the legislative elections, after being pinned down by Brussels on this subject.
“We must restore the public accounts (…) This is exactly what we are doing and, depending on the decisions that will be taken by the French people, we will return below the 3% deficit in 2027,” declared Bruno Le Mayor, during a meeting of EU Finance Ministers in Luxembourg.
Immigration: in the RN, the promise of an “emergency” law
In the event of victory in the legislative elections and appointment as Prime Minister, Jordan Bardella would make the fight against immigration one of his three “emergencies” with “purchasing power and security”, he said. he assures. According to his entourage, an immigration bill could be presented to Parliament in the summer during an extraordinary session, taking up amendments or proposals from outgoing RN deputies.
This text would include “the removal of administrative constraints which prevent the expulsion of foreigners”, “the reinstatement of an offense of illegal residence” with a fine and the transformation of “state medical aid” for foreigners in situation irregular in “vital emergency aid”, reserved for cases where the prognosis is vital. It would above all contain the “suppression” of land law.
Cazeneuve “angry” against “the alliance concluded on the left”
Former socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he was “angry at the alliance that was concluded on the left” for the legislative elections on Thursday during a public meeting in Charente-Maritime. “If I am angry at the alliance that was concluded on the left, it is not because I have ceased to be on the left, it is because I considered that the alliance had to be made between the democratic and republican formations of the left”, declared Bernard Cazeneuve.
“Never in its history, even at the time of the Popular Front, have we seen the left ally with the extreme left,” added the former Prime Minister. In front of several hundred people, Bernard Cazeneuve notably targeted rebellious France, which “cannot consider that Hamas is a terrorist organization”. But “the enemy of this election” remains “the National Rally”, according to the former Minister of the Interior from 2014 to 2016.
For Edouard Philippe, “Macron killed the presidential majority”
Questioned by TF1 Info about the surprise dissolution on the evening of the defeat of the Macronist camp in the European elections against the far right, the boss of the Horizons party, an ally of the Head of State, suggested his disagreement. According to Edouard Philippe, “it was the President of the Republic who killed the presidential majority”. “He dissolved it. It wasn’t me who left, it wasn’t rebels who upset him,” continued the first head of the Macron five-year government.
“He has decided to dissolve it. Very well, we move on, but something else cannot be exactly the same thing as before, so it is creating a new parliamentary majority which will operate on different bases. […] I’m ready for it and that’s what I’m trying to build,” he assured.
The cost of the New Popular Front program
The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon said Thursday in an interview At Figaro that the economic program of the New Popular Front would cost France 200 billion euros over five years, but would bring in 230.
“According to our party’s calculations, within five years, there will be a total of 200 billion euros in public spending and 230 billion in revenue for the State. How? By a boost to activity. Social spending creates well-being, which allows consumption, which in turn produces employment and tax revenue,” believes the founder of LFI. “Our program will increase purchasing power by freezing prices and reducing taxes for 92% of taxpayers,” he adds.
Investigation after the attack on an RN candidate in the Loire
An investigation into “meeting violence” was opened Thursday in Saint-Etienne, according to the city’s prosecutor’s office, after a “shustle” during which an RN candidate in the legislative elections told AFP that he had been attacked. “A stampede, insults and splashes of water and flour” took place around 11:30 a.m. on a market near the Labor Exchange, said the prosecution, adding that the investigation was opened by the police.
Questioned by AFP, Hervé Breuil, 70 years old and candidate in the 2nd constituency of the Loire, claimed that he had been “attacked” by “a group of masked individuals”. Wearing a pacemaker, Hervé Breuil then explained that he was taken to the emergency room of the CHU where he underwent examinations.