12:19
On nuclear power, it’s unclear
This is a point of disagreement between the communists, to rely on nuclear energy, and environmentalists, totally opposed. And the press conference will not make it possible to decide. “In the program, we present the strategy for 100% renewables, the dismantling of power plants and the abandonment of EPR projects. We share the overall trajectory on the subject, explains Clémence Guetté (LFI). “We agree on the essentials, however we have nuances on certain subjects, nuclear power is one of them”, agrees Ian Brossat (PCF). This is where Jean-Luc Mélenchon intervenes: “I think it’s a good example, we don’t ask anyone to give up their convictions. Subjects remain either disputed or disputed. I would like to point out that when it comes to nuclear, it’s not just us. On the right there are also anti-nuclear ”, justifies the boss of insubordinate France. “On nuclear power, it is the concrete discussion that will come to the table, with a certain number of power stations shut down. (…) No one is proposing to press the button to shut down all the power stations”. If the question “tends a lot”, “there will be a referendum, he promises.
12:11
La Nupes has its website
At the Nupes press conference, it was announced that the joint program could be found on the website www.nupes-2022.fr. After some difficulties, the site seems to work. Not to be confused with the program of the Popular Union for the presidential election, still online.
11:53
Ian Brossat speaks for the PCF
The spokesperson for the Communist Party justifies the absence of Fabien Roussel, currently in the field with Vallourec employees.
11:51
On the European Union, point of cleavage of the members of the Nupes
“Sustainably change the incompatible rules” with the application of the Nupes program by joining forces with other countries, this is the roadmap of the left alliance. “Neither exit nor disintegration of the EU, nor leave the single currency, affirms the former socialist deputy Corinne Narassiiguin.
11:45
In the Nupes program
In terms of security, the proponents of the New Union of LFI, Socialists, Ecologists and Communists propose “local police with human resources that mesh the entire national territory”, the prohibition of “mutilating weapons”, as well than the trap technique. If a Nupes majority is elected, the Global Security Act will be repealed.
11:41
Bayou’s Optimism
“This time on June 12 and 19, we can vote with a smile. And win. And govern, ”wants to believe Julien Bayou, secretary general of ELLV. “We have a disruptive program to finally make France an ecological and united democracy”.
11:34
Eight axes
Clémence Guetté, secretary general of La France insoumise, announces the main lines of the reforms “to change the lives of the French from June”. Establishing the RIC, “reviving the role of Parliament, that’s really the ambition behind this program”, and “ending certain practices, in particular the use of private firms”.
11:24
Mélenchon presents the common program of Nupes
650 measures, announces the deputy LFI. “We left with the very strong ambition to do better than a few measures” which would have likened Nupes to a “political cartel”, he said. This platform of ideas also had to “remain governable”.
11:07
La Nupes presents its joint program
They’re a few minutes late. Members of the New Popular Ecologist and Social Union will present their government program at a press conference. The conference can be followed live on Youtube.
10:51
Are former ministers paid for life?
No. Ministers who are about to leave their ministries, where they have been managing day-to-day affairs since the government resigned on Monday, have the right to receive their ministerial salary for three months, unless they start another job or return to their mandate as deputy. It was six months until 2013 and the reform of this statute. Each minister receives 10,136 euros gross per month. But as soon as they hand over power, they must give up their official accommodation and the car with driver.
10:39
Rebsamen, Touraine, Valls, “betrayals” for Delga
The PS president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga deplored that three former PS figures, François Rebsamen, Marisol Touraine or Manuel Valls, have joined Emmanuel Macron. “The French don’t want it anymore. The disgust they have for politics is all these betrayals, ”she said on RTL.
10:23
Who are the former candidate ministers?
Jean-Michel Blanquer (National Education) is present in the 4th district of Loiret, held by the right for more than twenty years, Gerald Darmanin (Interior), an old regular at the polls, is running in the 10th constituency of the North which includes part of his town of Tourcoing. Olivier Veran (Health) is a candidate for re-election in Isère, as the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts Olivier Dussoptin Ardèche, the spokesperson Gabriel Attal in Hauts-de-Seine and the Minister of Transformation and Public Service Amelie de Montchalin in Essonne. Emmanuelle Wargon (Housing) is in the countryside in the 8th district of Val-de-Marne, not far from Roxana Maracineanu who is aiming for the 7th. The Secretary of State for European Affairs Clement Beaune presents himself in Paris in place of Pacôme Rupin but he would have the town hall in his sights.
10:11
Maracineanu legislative candidate
Former Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu, who manages day-to-day business pending the appointment of her or his replacement, formalized her candidacy in the 7th constituency of Val-de-Marne by filing it last night at the prefecture with her candidate substitute.
10:00
Raffarin’s government recipe
Former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who assured yesterday that he did not want to enter the government, gives on Twitter the ingredients of a good government. It’s “20% loyal friends, 30% heavyweights, 10% hopefuls, 15% gratitude, 15% on their account, 5% by mistake and 5% by chance”. The account is good.
09:54
Elisabeth Borne this morning at the Elysée
Before going to Les Mureaux (Yvelines) for her first trip linked to equal opportunities, the Prime Minister is expected in the morning at the Elysée.
09:40
An RN candidate disinvested in the Hauts-de-Seine?
Liliane Pradier, candidate since 2017 under the colors of the National Rally in the Hauts-de-Seine, was pinned by the Daily program for several racist, Islamophobic messages, even qualifying as a call for violence.
Finally, last night, the party of Marine Le Pen, which was alerted to the messages by the work of the journalists of Daily, would have divested its candidate in the fifth district of Hauts-de-Seine, according to BFM. Information that remains to be confirmed.
09:30
Jacob on Wauquiez and the others
Christian Jacob will no longer chair LR in a few months. Who will replace him ? The “qualities” of Laurent Wauquiez “are no longer to be demonstrated” “but there may be other candidates”, estimated Jacob on France Info. “One hurdle after another, that of today is the legislative ones”.
09:14
Borne makes its first trip to Les Mureaux
Le Parisien announced it on Wednesday evening: Elisabeth Borne will make her very first trip as Prime Minister this Thursday to Les Mureaux, in the Yvelines. She will go to the Molière center, which brings together a nursery and elementary school, a crèche, a toy library, a resource center and a café, to talk about equal opportunities.
08:54
Borne, this “clearly” left-wing woman for Christian Jacob
Elisabeth Borne, right-wing woman, as claimed by many people opposed to the reforms she has made? “Her career, her liabilities, her past rather, pleads for her, estimates on France Info Christian Jacob (LR): adviser to Lionel Jospin, director of cabinet of Ségolène Royal, it is a real mark on the left…” And the president of the Republicans to add: “I say it besides to my friends who sometimes wanted to join Emmanuel Macron, to enter the government today is to enter a government with a Prime Minister of the left clearly displayed”.
08:50
We should only prosper if the poor get by
The indicator to know whether collectively a prosperous society should be based, for Laurent Berger, on the improvement of the living conditions of the poorest 10%. “The increase in the Smic cannot be the entirety of the salary reflection”, otherwise people will stay on the Smic all their lives, defends the boss of the Cfdt on BFM TV.
08:44
Wages, rents, gasoline, Berger’s fight
“Ecology and purchasing power are two different subjects,” said Cfdt boss Laurent Berger on BFM TV. A few minutes earlier, he called for “very concrete proposals”, an increase in wages, the blocking of “the evolution of rents in very tense areas” and “targeted aid for mobility for those who are forced to commute to work with their own vehicle.
08:31
Ménard and his preferences
“I can list my disagreements with Mr. Macron but I prefer Mr. Macron to Mr. Mélenchon”, summarizes, after presenting his grievances against the left, Robert Ménard.
08:30
Ménard worries about the general political climate
Today, in politics, “we are in a logic where you do not have adversaries, you have enemies. It’s scary. I say it as a self-criticism, because I used that vocabulary, ”recognizes Robert Ménard on CNews. And to criticize the media “which systematically favor a confrontation which does not make sense”. “The camp of good, the camp of evil (…) It bothers me”, lambasted the city councilor.
As for the burkini, “the vast majority of sensible people think that it is not reasonable” to authorize the burkini in municipal swimming pools, as Eric Piolle (EELV) did in Grenoble, “it’s the worst a sign that can be given to political Islamism”. And to question: “what is Madame Borne waiting for to propose immediately, to ban the burkini”?
08:24
Insecurity and purchasing power, “they are the same who suffer”
“These are the same people who suffer from purchasing problems and insecurity problems”, defends, on CNews, Robert Ménard.
08:20
Ménard talks about the fractured society
“I wish that Elisabeth Borne succeeds, for my country, but for that she will have to change things, it will take greater attention to all the people who roughly speaking vote for Marine Le Pen and who feel foreign to this country”, estimates, on CNews, the mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard.