“ The arm of honor to the people », launches in One the communist newspaper Humanity.
“ The big pension mess », Laments that of the economic daily The echoes.
Anger of some, desolation of others, the press, this Friday, March 17, is fifty shades darker than each other… In Paris as elsewhere in France.
“ 49-3 : real political crisis “, launches the front page of the regional daily Progress.
“ Will the 49-3 ignite France ? asks that of the Journal of Saone-et-Loire.
That of Good public dares to ask whether the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, is “ outdated “, in reference to the formula “ cross the line which means “ to go too far, beyond the reasonable “.
On the decision of President Macron, has the government therefore exceeded the limits ? To understand well – and since we are reviewing the press here – just a reminder :pMaybe you remember, in this same press review, Sunday March 12, we announced the front page of the Sunday newspapercrossed out with a simple number : “ 49-3 », in reference to this constitutional provision which allows the adoption of a text without a vote, if the government is not subsequently overthrown by a motion of no confidence.
Since Thursday, it is therefore done. The last four days have not been enough for the executive to find a safe majority in the National Assembly to adopt the pension reform wanted by Emmanuel Macron, the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, under the bronca of some of the deputies , has therefore engaged the responsibility of its government, under article 49-3.
And this morning, Release denounce the mess. “ All that to draw, after weeks of statements to the contrary, a shameful article 49.3 to avoid a vote that he risked losing. Immediate result, Thursday evening : a spontaneous demonstration place de la Concordewhere, on July 12, 1789, demonstrators will be violently charged to be evacuated from the square, which will soon host the guillotine “, remember Freed.
The Phantom of the Knitters
What can happen now ? Beyond the motions of censure which will soon be voted on, Release predicts that what is now to come is, pell-mell, a “ hardening of protests “, A “ rejection of the institutions of the Republic ” and an “ opening of the populist breach through which the far right could rush “.
Caution, warn Freed“ what markets hate most, in case the Macron of 2023 has forgotten, is instability. And it is in instability that his ill-gotten pension reform pushes France, its democracy and its workers “.
No ghosts of sans culottes or some knitters at the foot of the guillotine on the front page of Figaro, but a sense of waste. The adoption of the pension reform by means of article 49-3 gives “ all the same “to the said reform” the taste of failure “says the newspaper. The use of this article, yet constitutional “, contributed to” galvanize the opposition and the unions, already very reassembled. Faced with a front of massive refusal in the street, the polls and in the National Assembly, the executive is more than ever weakened “, underline Le Figaronewspaper according to which the right seems “ in the process of breaking up “while Macronism” trembles on its bases “, while the National Rally, “ lurking in the shadows and mute, knows that he would probably be the only one to benefit from a dissolution if it intervened soon “.
“ What a political fiasco ! “, So laments this daily. “ It is still too early to guess all the consequences of this sequence : what a longevity for Elisabeth Borne, as solid personally as politically weakened ? What future for LR, between fracturing or implosion ? Dissolution or not ? No one, in any case, comes out unscathed “, is heartbroken Le Figaro.
Pyromaniacs in spite of themselves
Failure, fiasco, of course, but whose fault is it ? Again, nuances. For The echoesno doubt, it is a failure “ for the prime minister “. According to the economic daily, Elisabeth Borne “ is weakened “.
For Humanityon the other hand, “ the arsonist of the Élysée is solely responsible (…) The stubbornness and brutality of Emmanuel Macron (…) expose the country to great democratic dangers “.
The newspaper The crosshe only discerns losers (…), the Prime Minister (being) far from being the only one to be damaged in this affair “. The Catholic daily will say no more, but its readers will have understood.