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The word court is once again on Nicolas Sarkozy’s agenda this Wednesday. The so-called “Bygmalion” affair, on the financing of his presidential campaign lost in 2012, is in fact returning to the Paris Court of Appeal. In September 2021, the former head of state, tried for having exceeded the legal spending limit for his campaign, was sentenced to one year in prison, the maximum sentence then provided for by law. He immediately announced his intention to appeal, considering this conviction “unjust”.
Unlike his co-defendants, Nicolas Sarkozy is not, however, accused of the system of false invoices itself, designed to hide the explosion in his campaign’s expenses (nearly 43 million euros, while the ceiling legal was 22.5 million).
If we are to believe the Socialist deputies, it is a gift for precarious single-parent families that all that remains is to be wrapped this Wednesday. In the National Assembly, the PS in fact affirmed on Tuesday that it had obtained the government’s agreement in favor of their proposal to increase the Christmas bonus for these families, “to the tune of an additional 115 to 200 euros per household”.
PS deputy Philippe Brun indicated that he would defend an amendment in this direction on Wednesday, as part of the examination of the so-called “end of management” finance bill for 2023, a text allowing adjustments of credits for the current budget year. The socialist group plans to abstain during the overall vote on the text, once this amendment has been obtained.
PSG’s current European campaign is particularly laborious. With two defeats in four matches, the capital club is not at all guaranteed to see the round of 16 of the Champions League in February. Paris, although in good shape since its 4-1 debacle at Newcastle at the beginning of October, did not in fact resist the fury of San Siro on Tuesday evening and lost to AC Milan (2-1), notably with a goal in the 50th minute from Olivier Giroud synonymous with victory for the Italian club.
With this defeat and the victory of Dortmund (2-0) against Newcastle, group F is completely relaunched: the Germans have taken the lead (7 points), one point ahead of PSG, which is ahead of AC Milan (5 pts). ) and Newcastle (4 pts). Mbappé and his teammates will therefore have to fight to hope to go far in the competition.