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The work of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR) will be scrutinized on Monday. Emmanuel Macron will make a first assessment of this reform tool touted as another way of governing but which is struggling to settle in the French landscape. For this, he will chair the second plenary session, after the inaugural session on September 8. The meeting, which will also be attended by the Prime Minister and members of the government, will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Elysée. The ambition put forward by the executive in the CNR is however thwarted by the boycott of the oppositions and part of the unions which will again be the major absentees on Monday. From the National Rally to La France Insoumise, via LR, all decry in chorus a “thing”, a “gadget” intended to “bypass Parliament”.
After more than three months of hearing, the trial of the Nice attack is coming to an end. It actually ends on Monday morning. President Laurent Raviot must, from 9:30 a.m., give the floor to the seven defendants present, before closing the debates. The special assize court of Paris, made up of five professional magistrates and their four deputies, will then retire to a secret location in the Paris region before returning on Tuesday to the large trial room of the Paris Courthouse to announce its verdict. Shot dead by the police at the end of his murderous race, the Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, author of the ram truck attack which left 86 dead and more than 450 injured on the evening of July 14, 2016 on the Promenade des Anglais, was the great absentee from the trial even if his name has been pronounced at each hearing since September 5.
The political crisis turns tragic in Peru. Two people died and at least five were injured on Sunday during growing nationwide protests against President Dina Boluarte after the ousting and arrest of former President Pedro Castillo. To calm the anger of the demonstrators, the one who was vice-president until her inauguration on December 7 has finally announced that she will present to Parliament a bill aimed at advancing the elections from 2026 to April 2024.