The CGT explicitly called, this Tuesday, June 18, to vote for the New Popular Front during the legislative elections, given “the seriousness of the situation” with the risk of the far right coming to power.
The National Confederal Committee (CCN, “parliament” of the CGT) declared itself “very broadly” in favor of a declaration titled “It is one to midnight” which stipulates that the central “calls on employees, retirees and those deprived of ’employment to vote in as many numbers as possible on June 30 and July 7 for the program of the New Popular Front. The second French union is accustomed to calling for a barrier against the far right, but without giving voting instructions. The text, consulted by AFP, notes that “the extreme right is in a position to come to power for the first time in the history of our Republic – with the exception of the period of the Vichy regime”.
Information to remember
⇒ The CGT explicitly calls for voting for the New Popular Front
⇒ The Mayor warns of a risk of “putting France under supervision”
⇒ Faure wants “a vote” to choose a left-wing Prime Minister
The Mayor warns of a risk of “putting France under supervision”
The Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, warned this Tuesday that France risked being “put under supervision” by the European Commission and the IMF if the National Rally or the New Popular Front won the legislative elections on June 30 and July 7.
The country will experience “a debt crisis, if their programs were fully implemented”, declared Bruno Le Maire in a newspaper interview The world, castigating the “unbearable financial lightness” of the proposals of the RN and the front bringing together different left-wing forces, including the PS and LFI. “Opening the floodgates of public spending wide at a time when we should be restoring our accounts will lead to France being placed under supervision by Brussels and the International Monetary Fund,” added the minister, who is campaigning for the presidential majority. without being a candidate himself.
RN candidate in Sarthe, Marine Le Pen’s sister denies being “parachuted in”
Marie-Caroline Le Pen, sister of Marine and candidate of the National Rally in the legislative elections in Sarthe, assured this Tuesday that she “had not been parachuted”, recognizing however that her surname could “help” her to convince voters.
The eldest of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s three daughters, aged 64, is running in the fourth constituency of Sarthe, of which former Prime Minister François Fillon was the deputy. “I am not from here, I am not going to lie but I am responding to the call of the activists” of the National Rally (RN), declared the regional councilor of Île-de-France and until now unsuccessful candidate for the legislative in Hauts-de-Seine and Yvelines. “I don’t have the feeling of having been parachuted in, I wasn’t parachuted in against people’s opinions […] I have the consent” of the activists, she said.
Legislative: “I guarantee freedom of expression to players”, says the boss of French football
The president of the French Football Federation Philippe Diallo declared on Tuesday that he guaranteed “players freedom of expression” regarding the next legislative elections in France (June 30-July 7), while ensuring “neutrality” of its authority.
“I have always said that I guarantee freedom of expression to the players,” explained the manager during a press conference held in Paderborn (Germany), at the Blues’ Euro-2024 base camp. “But the associative principles of the FFF mean that you must avoid debates of a political and religious nature and ensure a principle of neutrality,” he added.
Attal points out Bardella’s “refusal of obstacles”
Gabriel Attal pointed out on Tuesday at Jordan Bardella, expected to enter Matignon in the event of success of the National Rally in the legislative elections, a “refusal of obstacles” when he asks for an absolute majority to govern, with a program which is only ” approximations or denials”.
“We have seen for several days that, when it comes to Jordan Bardella, there is less and less of a program and more and more conditions. It’s starting to look like a refusal of an obstacle,” the Prime Minister said on franceinfo. minister, who is leading the presidential camp’s campaign in this election on June 30 and July 7.
Campaign launch for the New Popular Front
The whistle was blown by the first meeting of the legislative race, Monday June 17 in the evening. On an open-air stage in front of Montreuil town hall, several hundred sympathizers of the new left-wing Popular Front saw the leader of the PS Olivier Faure, the boss of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier, the senator and spokesperson for the French Communist Party in succession. Ian Brossat and the former president of the rebellious group in the Assembly, Mathilde Panot. “Who could have believed that in four days the party leaders would agree on an electoral agreement to change people’s lives?” welcomed Marine Tondelier, promising that the New Popular Front “is not a one-night stand and just getting started.”
With 28% of voting intentions for the moment according to a survey on Monday, the left wants to display the unity and collaboration of its different groups. But this evening, hosted by academic Julia Cagé, nevertheless had difficulty hiding the internal tensions following the decision of La France insoumise not to reinvest several leavers deemed rebellious, including Alexis Corbière precisely in Montreuil, who maintains his candidacy by denouncing a “purge” of the apparatus led by those loyal to Jean-Luc Mélenchon. A conflict which nevertheless burst into the debates on several occasions. “The union cannot come with the distilled poison of betrayal,” launched the new LFI MEP Rima Hassan on stage.
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Faure wants to choose the potential left-wing Prime Minister by vote
Olivier Faure, leader of the socialist party, called for Tuesday morning 18 “a vote” to choose the Prime Minister in the event of victory for the left-wing coalition “New Popular Front” in the legislative elections.
“There will be a vote because I don’t know any other way to arbitrate”, promised the first secretary of the PS while the LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon had suggested that it be the most important group of a left-wing majority which proposes a name. “I cannot impose a socialist Prime Minister. No one can impose a rebellious Prime Minister. The only way to achieve this is to vote,” he continued. “There is not a rebellious bloc that would impose itself on the rest of the left,” warned Mr. Faure. “The only way to make this new majority work will be to have a democratic functioning. absence of democratic functioning, things would not last”, he also said to the Insoumis.
485 candidates invested by the majority
The presidential camp, credited with less than 20% of voting intentions two weeks before the election, will present 485 of its candidates under the banner “Together for the Republic”, almost everywhere. But in 67 constituencies, the Macronist camp “made the choice not to send candidates to guarantee blocking the extremes” by leaving these places to candidates from the “Republican arc”, explained the Renaissance group Monday morning.
“Our political objective remains the same: to prevent a candidate from the two blocs (LFI and allies, RN and allies) from winning, wherever possible.” Some constituencies are also left vacant because of unbeatable candidates. Illustration: François Hollande, widely criticized for having joined an alliance with LFI, has no candidate facing him in Corrèze.
Bardella details his program to Le Parisien
The leader of the National Rally Jordan Bardella, promised to Matignon at only 28 years old, detailed his program in an interview At Parisian, promising in particular the repeal of the pension reform “from the fall”, the reduction in VAT on energy and fuel from this summer in the event of victory, or even the elimination of certain tax loopholes. The abolition of land law and the replacement of state medical aid with an emergency fund which “will only cover vital emergencies” are also on the agenda, and the RN reiterates its proposal to suspend family allowances for parents repeat juvenile delinquents.
“I say to the French: to try ourselves, we need an absolute majority” in the National Assembly “to govern” he demanded in an interview with Le Parisien. Marine Le Pen made it known that she would not ask for Emmanuel Macron’s resignation if successful, ruling out the specter of an institutional crisis.