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The government’s busy week to pass its new sanitary measures bill has begun. Monday evening, the Council of Ministers adopted the text imposing the health pass gradually from Wednesday. In an attempt to reassure, the government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal, assured that a “running-in period” of limited duration is planned, referring to “a week” or a little more, in order to “accompany the professionals “. The text now arrives this Tuesday in the hands of the deputies before a passage in the Senate.
His name will be on everyone’s lips, but Xavier Bertrand will not be physically present on purpose. The Republicans are meeting this Tuesday around several potential candidates of the right in the presidential election of 2022. In order to see more clearly on the intentions of each, the president of LR Christian Jacob, the president of the Senate Gérard Larcher and the Mayor of Antibes Jean Leonetti, who has been entrusted with a mission on the “process of bringing together” potential candidates in 2022, will therefore host this meeting from 3 pm in a Parisian hotel “behind closed doors”. The former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, the leader of senators LR Bruno Retailleau, the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Laurent Wauquiez and the mayor of La Garenne-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine) Philippe are expected. Juvin, all LR, as well as the president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse, who left LR. Discussions should focus on the organization of a primary.
Nine days after Richard Branson, the space should welcome its second billionaire this Tuesday. Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet, is preparing to take off for the first manned flight of his company Blue Origin. The New Shepard rocket will take off at 8 a.m. (3 p.m. in France) from an isolated site in the Western Desert of Texas. The event will be broadcast live on BlueOrigin.com, starting an hour and a half before the launch. Alongside Jeff Bezos on this fully autonomous flight will be his brother Mark as well as aviation pioneer Wally Funk, 82, and Blue Origin’s first paying customer, an 18-year-old Dutchman Olivier Daemen, who will respectively become the oldest and youngest astronaut in history.