The horizon is clearing up for Olivier Faure at the head of the Socialist Party in France. He who directs it, curled the absolute majority in the first ballot of the Congress of this left formation. Second round, next Thursday. In a newspaper interview The Parisian, Olivier Faure appears confident. He points out that the activists have reinforced the PS’s desire to bring together the left and the ecologists, and that the exit of the Nupes, the left alliance, ” was only approved by a fifth of activists “.
Then Olivier Faure widens his field of vision to the questions of the day, in France. Starting, of course, with the pension reform. Recalling that even Emmanuel Macron, in 2017, had challenged the postponement of the legal retirement age, Olivier Faure believes that, if the President of the Republic was consistent in his convictions, “ he would march against this reform ! “, he says to the Parisian.
Finally, referring to the presidential election of 2027, in France, the boss of the PS intends that the common candidate of the whole of the left ” be a socialist “.
Peter Cherif in the box?
Terrorism, with the closure of a judicial investigation concerning a French jihadist and the requisitions of the prosecution against him. His name: Peter Cherif. According to the newspaper Releasethe National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office ” now requests the dismissal of Peter Cherif before a specially composed assize court “. As summarized by this daily, the criminal charges that justice imputes to him aim ” his potential role as jailer of three French nationals, members of the NGO Triangle Generation Humanitarian, kidnapped in Yemen in 2011, but not only…
A veteran of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Peter Chérif is a French man in his forties. suspected of having contributed to what could be the genesis of the future attack of Charlie Hebdo”, on January 7, 2015, states Release.
The Lebaneseized Goncourt
It is in two days, Monday, that the general assembly of the Prix Goncourt, a prestigious French literary prize, will be held. On the agenda, the renewal of the office of his association. And the knives are drawn… On November 3, when the Goncourt prize was announced, awarded to Brigitte Giraud for live fast (Flammarion), barely a minute was enough for the writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, member of the jury, to break a tradition: ” he dissociates himself from the announced choice by affirming loud and clear that he does not like the crowned novel and that he preferred his competitor, The Magus of the Kremlin, by Giuliano da Empoli “, remember Le Figaro. ” His words are harsh. He claims that the Goncourt Academy committed a “mistake”. Other jurors think the same (Pierre Assouline, Pascal Bruckner, Patrick Rambaud) “, Reports this newspaper, while it took fourteen ballots to decide between the two finalists.
In Le Figarothe juror Pierre Assouline admits that a Goncourt in the 14th round, ” it’s not very glorious “. As this daily points out, the geopolitics of a crisis within the Goncourt Academy actually took shape a few days before the final vote at the time of the last selection announced in Beirut, Monday, October 26 “.
That day, in fact, a controversy arose following a post on Facebook by the Lebanese Minister of Culture, a close associate of Hezbollah. Which minister would have written this, reports Le Figaro : ” I would not allow Zionists to come among us and spread the venom of Zionism in Lebanon “.
So ? So ” a dissension immediately arose within the Goncourt academy: some did not want to go (to Lebanon), to show their reprobation and their anger; others say, on the contrary, that it is more necessary than ever to go there to defend literature “.
Precisely, supporters of this trip to Beirut on the one hand, opponents on the other, it is exactly the same cleavage that we will find a few days later, during the vote which crowned Brigitte Giraud. ” Five on one side, five on the other… […] Didier Decoin, Philippe Claudel, Paule Constant, Camille Laurence and Françoise Chandernagor […] who opted for the trip to Lebanon are now called the “Lebanese clan” and find themselves in the dock “, remark Le Figaro.
” For us, our presence was worth condemning the words of this Minister of Culture. On the contrary, we had to go “, says to this newspaper the president of the Goncourt jury, Didier Decoin. But the tension does not fall, especially since the Israeli embassy in France adds its grain of salt to the wound by publishing a press release […] ” It’s accusing us of being anti-Semitic ! “, are offended by the jurors in favor of the trip.
Monday, January 16, during the meeting of the Goncourt jury, one of the jurors warns in Le Figaro, ” there is no question that the office, following the successive crises, remains in the state “.