Senate pension debate, Murdaugh trial verdict and seduced learning

Did you miss the news this early morning? We’ve put together a recap to help you see things more clearly.

This Thursday, the examination in session of the pension reform began in the Senate. “I know that here there is no ZAD, but the Republic”, launched on a knowing air Gabriel Attal, the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts. “I know there will be no obstruction here,” added Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Labour. The left of the hemicycle had little taste for these references and made it known loudly.

From Thursday we were also able to hear again phrases that we heard a lot at the Palais Bourbon for two weeks. To the president of the macronist group François Patriat, who was worried about the number of amendments tabled, the communist Éliane Assassi replied: “What do you want? No amendments, is that what you want? In short, in the canons of the Senate, we still attended a somewhat tense session.

After a legal marathon that fascinated America, the jury unanimously reached a verdict in just three hours. Thursday, the American lawyer Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of the murders of his wife and his son, killed by bullets on June 7, 2021. He will know his sentence on Friday: it will be between 30 years of imprisonment and life imprisonment, the prosecutors having refused to ask for the death penalty.

This double murder is only the visible part of a tortuous saga involving money, influence and other suspicious deaths to which numerous podcasts and a Netflix series released last week have already been devoted.

Some 811,500 apprenticeship contracts were signed in the private sector in 2022, an increase of 14% compared to 2021, according to the results of the Ministry of Labor made public Thursday evening. If we add those in the public sector, we arrive at a total of 837,000 contracts signed.

While the increase is less spectacular than in the past two years (+46% in 2020 and +38% in 2021), it remains in line with the executive’s objective of reaching one million contracts signed per year by 2027. These figures will be presented on Friday by Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne during a National Council for Refoundation (CNR) devoted to the professional integration of young people.

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