In France, “this friday morning [22 juillet] marked the official opening of the ‘dialogue’ season”, notes the Milanese daily The paper. “Building majorities of projects to provide concrete solutions to the French, we have succeeded”, rejoiced Elisabeth Borne after the adoption at first reading of the emergency bill on purchasing power.
After four days and one night “bitter debates”, the first major text of Macron’s second five-year term was adopted in the National Assembly with 341 votes for, 116 against and 21 abstentions. The majority of elected officials from La France insoumise and environmentalists blocked it, denouncing a “declaration of war on the workers”. The Socialists mostly abstained. The Republicans and the Lepenists, on the contrary, largely supported the project. This shows that “the National Assembly is not as ungovernable as certain Cassandres claim, convinced that it will be necessary to organize new legislative elections in a few months”, estimates the Italian conservative daily.
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