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Bardella votes Marion Maréchal
While the name of the future head of the Reconquest list for the Europeans is not yet known, Jordan Bardella has no hesitation: “I would prefer it to be Marion Maréchal. Eric Zemmour mobilizes more than her, the people who joined Reconquête did it for him and we saw in the presidential election that Marion’s contribution was very limited”. He himself will be number 1 on the National Rally list.
These ministers “in the conk” of Macron
Forget the 1,000 terminals, the Uno or the Yam’s, the macronists’ favorite game remains to guess when the next cabinet reshuffle will take place: some of them foresee the sentence the day after the pension reform, in order to give a new breath in the quinquennium. And for good reason, Emmanuel Macron is pouring out more and more to his relatives about the results of his ministers and more particularly those who disappoint him. At the forefront of disappointment is the Minister of Health François Braun who, according to him, is struggling to exist within the perimeter of his morocco. “Braun, Macron has it badly in the pif, blows a Renaissance executive aware of the annoyances of the president. But that also applies to Jean-Christophe Combe at Solidarity. The time is no longer for ministers of civil society. “
Ndiaye and the enemies within
Pap Ndiaye, who is discovering the joys of politics, noted that some members of the presidential majority were very hostile towards him. Those close to the Minister of Education point out that the friends of his predecessor rue de Grenelle, Jean-Michel Blanquer, remain active in the National Assembly. “They still have their WhatsApp loop,” says one.
Mélenchon angers his slingers (again)
Clémentine Autain, Raquel Garrido, François Ruffin, Alexis Corbière… In recent months, these have publicly expressed their disagreements with Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the Quatennens affair or even on the lack of internal democracy within LFI. Enough to upset the chef who says worse than hang around them, or even no longer speaks to some. In early January, the small group had scheduled a joint meeting in Bobigny against the pension reform. A date had even been found: February 16. It was obviously too much for Mélenchon who decided to also organize his public meeting “anti-pension reform”.
O surprise, it will be held the same day as that of his rebellious friends, in Montpellier. Something to seriously annoy them. A pure coincidence, we swear in the entourage of the great rebellious leader: “It’s been a month since he wanted to hold a meeting, like there are dozens organized by Nupes all over France. turns out that it fell on the 16th since we had an option on a room in Montpellier.” Montpellier, a coincidence too? It is the stronghold of Nathalie Oziol, elected deputy for the constituency. Last September, when the Quatennens affair exploded, she was the only MP to relay Mélenchon’s message of support to his heir, the one who had so shocked internally and scandalized feminists. It is she, too, that we saw, on Tuesday, stand up and warmly applaud the deputy from the North (yet “withdrawn” from the group) who spoke for the first time since his return. Holy coincidence!
Faure, better try
His speech did not go unnoticed. Though. On the pronatalist policy demanded by certain parliamentary groups during the debates on pension reform, Sandrine Rousseau stood out in the Assembly. Against, resolutely against, the green deputy took the floor to denounce a status of women in danger: “The belly of women is not the adjustment variable of our pension system.” Immediate applause from the benches on the left: the message got through. For everyone ? Not really.
Asked about this by L’Express a few moments later, his colleague from Nupes Olivier Faure made a small shortcut and ended up getting lost. But what did Rousseau want to say about the birth rate? It shouldn’t be that hard coming from a green. One, two, three, he starts: “She says there are too many people on the planet? That it’s not worth doing more?” Nice try, but no, it was on an exclusively feminist ground, and not green. Good foot, good eye the first secretary of the PS, but bad ears.