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This is the interview that we no longer expected: Emmanuel Macron, who had given up speaking on July 14, will finally be interviewed this Monday by the “13 Hours” newspapers of TF1 and France 2 from Nouméa, at the start of a trip to New Caledonia and the Pacific.
The Head of State is coming to the very end of the “one hundred days of appeasement, unity, ambition and action” that he had given himself in mid-April to relaunch his second five-year term after the pension crisis, and will therefore draw the “assessment” promised at the time. He must also “draw up the prospects for the start of the school year”, according to his entourage.
More than 250 firefighters were still fighting the flames on the tourist island of Rhodes where 30,000 people were evacuated, “the largest operation” of the type “ever carried out in Greece”, crushed under a furnace promoting fires.
Hundreds of tourists waited at Rhodes International Airport, looking for a flight home, while several airlines suspended flights to the island.
Given the loser of the legislative elections by all the polls, the Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez managed on Sunday to limit the gains of the right-wing opposition and retains, against all odds, a chance to stay in power in extremis thanks to the game of alliances. After counting more than 99% of the votes, the Popular Party (PP) of its conservative rival Alberto Núñez Feijóo totaled 136 seats out of a total of 350 in the Congress of Deputies and the far-right party Vox, its only potential ally, 33 seats. They therefore only total 169 seats, far from the absolute majority, which is 176. The Socialist Party of Pedro Sánchez is credited with only 122 deputies and Sumar, his radical left ally, with 31. But Pedro Sánchez, in power for five years, is paradoxically in a better position than his conservative rival and can hope to stay in power, because he has the possibility of obtaining the support of the Basque and Catalan parties, for whom Vo x is a scarecrow.