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Retreats: the Sages did not have to rack their brains
Rarely, if ever, has a decision by the Constitutional Council been so awaited and scrutinized. The Elders have therefore validated most of the pension reform, to the surprise of certain ministers: “I expected more measures to be censored”, slips a pillar of the government. If “the pressure exerted by the street and a part of the political parties was particular”, confides one of the nine judges, this one confides especially that he had, technically, known worse: “In reality, it was not a very complicated text to examine.”
Roussel, the new Georges Marchais
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is not the only one who can no longer supervise his friend, the communist Fabien Roussel. The socialists of Olivier Faure, too, are fed up with it. Around the leader of the roses, it is predicted: “He will end up like Georges Marchais if he continues like that, hitting the comrades of the Nupes.” Reading the interview in L’Express, where the communist assures us that the Nupes is “outdated”, did not please them, but they take their troubles patiently: “A communist who is agitated is a figure imposed in the union of the left. Between 71 and 81, it was not a long calm river. In the end, it is the socialists who come out of the game. Ah! The hope…
Macronists will also obstruct
The vote on the bill tabled this Thursday by the LIOT group (the text aims to repeal the pension reform) would be “a real accident”, concedes a macronist from the first circle. Hence the counter-attack already in preparation: “On D-Day, the majority will have to table hundreds of amendments so that at midnight everyone goes to bed without having had to vote on the text.” And to think that there was a time when the president’s friends criticized the obstruction of the rebels in the Assembly…
Sarkozy’s last bitch about Macron
Between the two of them, ups and downs, again and again… Nicolas Sarkozy’s last nasty talk about Emmanuel Macron came back to the ears of the President of the Republic’s friends: “The question is not whether he will bounce back but if he’s going to finish.”
A college specializing in official visits
Official travel owes nothing to chance and always ticks the same boxes. The Louise Michel college in the Hérault that Emmanuel Macron visited this Thursday is the one where the Secretary of State for Veterans Affairs, Patricia Mirallès, was already supposed to go on March 16. The exercise had been canceled… because Elisabeth Borne had decided that day to resort to 49.3. There is no way out.
Aurélien Pradié and the “government of national unity”
He has not spoken to Eric Ciotti since his ousting from the position of number 2 of the Republicans (LR). Elisabeth Borne knows how much her opposition to the pension reform forced her to resort to 49.3. Aurélien Pradié plays the card of a clear opposition to Emmanuel Macron. The deputy for Lot does not believe in a government agreement with the right to get out of the crisis. “Either Macron makes a government of national unity from the Communists to the right, and I would have underestimated it, he explained recently. Or we will see yet another poaching. But the poachers have the same future as Abad or Dussopt. These people have a political flaw, which always ends up rotting.”
Bush’s tour
The ideologue, in full promotion for his latest book Décadanse (Albin Michel, 2023), is touring right-wing and far-right media. He was supposed to be the guest star of the tenth congress of the Illiad, organized on Saturday April 15 at the Maison de la Chimie. Invoking a schedule concern, the author canceled a few days before. Let the supporters of the new right (this ethnodifferentialist current which dreams of uniting the right and the far right) be reassured: the former eminence grise of Nicolas Sarkozy is on Thursday at a signing in the no less radical New bookstore, in the heart of the 6th arrondissement of Paris. A place prized by both Jean-Marie Le Pen and the theoretician of the great replacement Renaud Camus for their dedications.