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2:37 p.m. : Good polls: here I go. Bad polls: I’m not going. Funny conception of the “Reconquete!” “. The survival of France will wait. Marine Le Pen goes into battle to serve France and the French.
2:37 p.m. : It’s always the good atmosphere between the National Rally and Reconquest! In a tweet, number 2 of the RN cheerfully mocks Eric Zemmour who is reluctant to run for the legislative elections. “Good polls: I’m going. Bad polls: I’m not going. (…) The survival of France will wait”writes, scathingly, David Rachline.
1:45 p.m. : A name, a face and a controversy. Finally, Taha Bouhafs will not be a candidate in the 14th constituency of the Rhône. Invested in the New Popular Ecologist and Social Union (Nupes) in the legislative elections, the journalist and activist ended up throwing in the towel. If you have not followed the soap opera, we summarize it for you here.
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1:01 p.m. : It’s time for our best-of. Here are the contents that should not be missed on our site:
Margaux Duguet tells you why Emmanuel Macron takes so long to form a new government
Marie-Violette Bernard paints a portrait of Yoon Suk-yeolthe anti-feminist president who wants to bring South Korea back into the “conservative standard”
Agathe Mahuet and Arthur Gerbault tell you how civilians and soldiers expose war trophies in the middle of the street as “proof” of the Russian invasion.
12:53 p.m. : Taha Bouhafs withdraws his candidacy. It is a collective failure. As a journalist, we owe him the Benalla affair in particular. He would have made (and perhaps will one day) a very good deputy. Take care of yourself Taha.
12:53 p.m. : Julien Bayou in turn regrets the withdrawal of Taha Bouhafs. “It’s a collective failure, wrote on Twitter the boss of environmentalists. He would have made a very good MP.”
12:36 p.m. : Obviously, it is the @FranceInsoumise who will choose his candidacy on this constituency and no one else.
12:35 p.m. : I told you a few minutes ago that the PCF of Vénissieux asked the Nupes to invest the mayor Michèle Picard in place of Taha Bouhafs. Well the answer was quick, and it’s no: in a tweet, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s campaign manager recalls that it’s “bObviously La France insoumise and no one else who will choose his candidacy for this constituency”.
12:21 p.m. : The PCF of Vénissieux took “knowledge of withdrawal” of Taha Bouhafs in the legislative elections. In a statement, the party asks the New People’s Union to “recognize Michèle Picard as the candidate who can bring together the entire left” in the 14th district of the Rhône. So far, the communist mayor of Vénissieux wanted to be a dissident candidate from the left against the militant journalist.
12:09 : At noon, here are the headlines:
Visiting Berlin, Emmanuel Macron assured that he knew “of course” the name of the next Prime Minister, but refused to reveal his identity. We explain to you why Emmanuel Macron takes so long to form his new government.
Taha Bouhafs, contested candidate for Nupes in the Rhône, announces its withdrawal. The journalist and activist renounces to appear because “unprecedented attacks”.
Conservative Yoon Suk-yeol, elected president by less than a point in March, officially takes office today. Portrait of this anti-feministwho marked the campaign with his incendiary statements.
The fights intensify in southern and eastern Ukrainewhere US arms deliveries must be accelerated. “You are not alone. The EU is on your side”said yesterday the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, on a surprise visit to Odessa.
09:45 : Taha Bouhafs withdraws his candidacy for the legislative elections. A mob attacked him. At 25, it’s hard to live with daily death threats and public accusations. I blame myself for not having been able to comfort him as much as necessary.
09:54 : “A mob is relentless against him. At 25, it’s hard to live with death threats and daily public accusations.”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon reacts after the announcement by Taha Bouhafs withdrawal of his candidacy.
09:54 : “Clearly on retirement at 65, the postponement of the legal age”which is part of Emmanuel Macron’s proposals, “the CFDT will be upwind”, warns Laurent Berger, secretary general of the reformist union, on France Inter. He promises a hard social fall if Emmanuel Macron passes this reform.
09:26 : About therevision of the European treaties announced by Emmanuel Macron in the European Parliament, François Ruffin is not opposed to it, but considers that it is necessary to go through “a referendum in France”. “We will have to disobey to obtain progress at European level”he says, referring in particular to the delivery of school canteens by local farmers.
10:05 a.m. : Guest of franceinfo, François Ruffin, deputy La France insoumise, critic “the uniformity of the National Assembly”after announcement of withdrawal of the candidacy for the legislative elections of Taha Bouhafs. The young activist explained that he was throwing in the towel because “unprecedented attacks”.
09:22 : At 9 a.m., here are the news headlines:
On an official visit to Berlin yesterday, Emmanuel Macron assured that he knew “of course” the name of the next Prime Minister, but refused to reveal his identity. We explain to you why Emmanuel Macron takes so long to form his new government.
the UN estimated at 50% the risk that the average annual global temperature will temporarily be 1.5°C above pre-industrial values for at least one of the next five years.
Taha Bouhafs, contested candidate for Nupes in the Rhône, announces its withdrawal. The journalist and activist renounces to appear because “unprecedented attacks”.
Conservative Yoon Suk-yeol, elected president by less than a point in March, officially takes office today. Portrait of this anti-feministwho marked the campaign with his incendiary statements.
The fights intensify in southern and eastern Ukrainewhere US arms deliveries must be accelerated. “You are not alone. The EU is on your side”said yesterday the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, on a surprise visit to Odessa.
09:23 : “Besides franceinfo showed a graph with the increase of the five French fortunes where we saw the tripling [de la fortune] of the five French billionaires in five years.”
Guest of franceinfo, François Ruffin calls for the indexation of all salaries to inflation. He proposes to do this to involve the richest and quotes the work of my colleague Noé Baudin on the enrichment of the great French fortunes.
08:39 : LFI deputy Alexis Corbière believes that“must be interpreted” the words of Taha Bouhafs, who was expected to be a legislative candidate for the left alliance (Nupes), as a withdrawal of candidacy. “All of this is a great acknowledgment of failure”he reacts in “The 4 Truths” on France 2.
08:40 : After a single term, several deputies elected in 2017 in the wake of the election of Emmanuel Macron decided to hang up the scarf, even before the investitures. A “role of theater actor”a “EuroDisney of Democracy”… France info questioned those parliamentarians who chose to leave their seats.
08:39 : Hello . According to article 8 of the Constitution, the President of the Republic appoints the ministers on the proposal of the Prime Minister. In the practice of the Fifth Republic, the head of state therefore chooses the ministers with his head of government. In a period of cohabitation, we have even seen a François Mitterrand oppose Jacques Chirac on the choice of certain ministers, in the areas reserved for the president, such as Foreign Affairs or Defence.
07:59 : Hello ! You tell us that President Macron is taking his time choosing the members of his new government. Isn’t it the role of the Prime Minister to choose them? Thank you and have a nice sunny day!
07:50 : More than two weeks after his re-election, the President of the Republic has still not revealed the composition of the next executive, fueling rumors about his political strategy. I explain to you why Emmanuel Macron takes so long to form a new government.
07:47 : Taha Bouhafs, candidate invested by the left alliance (Nupes), announced his intention to withdraw this night in a press release. “We have not stopped saying it: the campaign coming from the far right against him, a young man from working-class neighborhoods and immigration, is unfair and unbearable”confides MP Clémentine Autain (LFI) to franceinfo.
07:46 : The candidacy of Taha Bouhafs is increasingly contested within the Nupes, the left alliance. The communist Fabien Roussel thus asked to La France insoumise yesterday to review the probable investiture of Taha Bouhafs. According to our information, the candidacy of the young activist has caused a stir within LFI itself in recent days.
07:46 : “I would have liked to hold on, I would have liked to make you proud, all of you who, like me, ‘are nothing’. (…) Keep fighting. For my part, I tried but I didn’t. can’t do it anymore.”
The journalist and activist Taha Bouhafswho was a candidate for the New People’s Ecologist and Social Union in the legislative elections (Nupes) in the 14th district of the Rhône, announced on Twitter his intention to give up due to “unprecedented attacks”.
06:38 : Pending the appointment of a new government by Emmanuel Macron, the current teams of ministries continue their daily missions. With a simple objective: to run the state. What does the government do ? What happens in a crisis? We answer to three questions on these “current affairs” managed by the Jean Castex team.
07:37 : We start with a reminder of the news headlines:
the UN estimated at 50% the risk that the average annual global temperature will temporarily be 1.5°C above pre-industrial values for at least one of the next five years.
On an official visit to Berlin yesterday, Emmanuel Macron assured that he knew “of course” the name of the next Prime Minister, but refused to reveal his identity. “I’m not going to say it here, not now”he replied.
• Ferdinand Marcos Juniorson of the late dictator of the same name, won a landslide victory in the presidential election, reinstalling his family clan at the top of power, 36 years after the popular revolt which had driven him out.
Fighting intensifies in southern and eastern Ukraine, where US arms deliveries are to be accelerated. “You are not alone. The EU is on your side”said yesterday the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, on a surprise visit to Odessa.
Inflation will continue to accelerate in the coming months. It should exceed 5% in May and reach 5.4% in June.