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20h50 : It’s past 8 p.m., let’s take a look at the main information:
• In an interview with Parisian (paying), Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announces thata green fund of 1.5 billion euros will be released to help communities “in accelerating their ecological transition”. The Prime Minister also ensures that the government will not “let energy prices explode”.
Emmanuel Macron signed a joint statement with his Algerian counterpart, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, after a three-day visit to the country. The text represents “a renewed partnership” and an “irreversible progress” bilateral relations between Paris and Algiers.
• The UK will donate six underwater drones to Ukraine, and train Ukrainian soldiers in their use. These devices will help kyiv neutralize Russian mines off its coast.
• At least 12 people are dead and 87 injured after fighting between rival militias broke out in Tripoli overnight from Friday to Saturday, according to the Libyan Ministry of Health. Six hospitals were hit by strikes.
19h10 : Believing that“Emmanuel Macron was not elected to extend working hours”the communist deputy from the North Fabien Roussel called on franceinfo for a referendum “project against project”. The National Secretary of the Communist Party proposed to the Nupes forces to “work together with trade unions to develop a fair and united pension reform project”before submitting it to voters.
19h03 : In This interview (subscribers only)the Prime Minister also ensures that the government will not “let energy prices explode”and that she “don’t close the door” to a tax on “super-profits” businesses to fund inflation-fighting measures.
19h03 : #CLIMAT A green fund of 1.5 billion euros will be released to help communities “in accelerating their ecological transition”announces the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, in an interview with Parisian.
18h26 : “Before talking about 2027, let’s talk about this social return.”
“The next few months will see the social emergency prevail”, assures Danièle Obono on franceinfo. Citing in particular the “energy crisis which promises to be very severe”the LFI deputy from Paris explains that the Nupes “will call for mobilization”. Re the summer universities organized separately by the different parties of the left alliance, Danièle Obono replies that “it has always been done, including in dialogue and respect for everyone”.
15h41 : “Activists are overwhelmingly in the idea that we must move forward in the union. (…) They do not want to know how we get out of the agreement, but how we strengthen it (…) expanding it.”
15h40 : “The time has come to move beyond this conflict. Some are seeking to maintain it and organize a rearguard debate in Congress.”
15h40 : The first secretary of the PS calls on the members of his party to “overcome conflict” internal concerning the new left alliance within the Nupes. “It is logical that the confrontation leaves traces”most “the page must turn”, estimated Olivier Faure, during the summer university of the socialists in Blois.
15h53 : 300 members of LREM, as well as members of the Agir and Territoire de Progrès parties, are meeting today in Metz (Moselle), around Elisabeth Borne. “Emmanuel Macron is not absent, assures its spokesperson, Prisca Thévenot. More than a leader of the political movement, he is above all a leader of the nation.”
14h18 : ???? Presidency of @RNational_off: Louis Aliot, candidate ????️ “I embody longevity and local presence. There is no leadership to take because it is embodied by Marine Le Pen” Louis Aliot (@louis_aliot)???? On #LCI
14h37 : Another event of this political return: Louis Aliot launches his campaign for the presidency of the National Rally, in Baixas (Pyrénées-Orientales). Asked about LCI, he claimed to embody “longevity and local presence” against Jordan Bardella, also a presidential candidate.
13h58 : “We are going to enter the battle. (…) There is no possible compromise. (…) I give everyone an appointment in mid-October for the march that will allow us to to come into confrontation with this bad policy.”
13h55 : Jean-Luc Mélenchon also criticized Emmanuel Macron’s comments on “the end of abundance”. “He does not realize that he is talking to people who are destitute, that there are 9 million poor people”believes the leader of LFI.
15h24 : “I regret that the government has chosen a line of confrontation with the people of this country. Its only program announced for the moment is to finish devastating the school, to question the pension and the unemployment insurance .”
Jean-Luc Mélenchon was the guest of TF1’s “13 Hours” this afternoon. “I would like the government to do [des compromis]“, did he declare. He called on the executive to “make a gesture”like raising the minimum wage.
1:18 p.m : Preparing for the future and post-Macron. The executives of the presidential majority are preparing for the return to politics by meeting today in a seminar in Metz. The event is supposed to lay the foundations of the future presidential party, Renaissance.
12h53 : 22 v’la la Nupes. In Blois, the 2nd day of Campus PS begins with an exchange on the union of the left sealed for the legislative elections. The eco-friendly @yjadot and several rebels including @alexiscorbiere and @Clem_Autain made the trip from their respective summer universities. @libe
1:14 p.m : The “rebellious” Alexis Corbière and Clémentine Autain are currently in Blois, just like the ecologist Yannick Jadot, to participate in the summer university of the socialists. A journalist from Release photographed them alongside PS boss Olivier Faure.
12h49 : ????️???? “We would have liked common summer days. But it’s already a small cultural revolution: we invite each other.”@alexiscorbiere is at the PS summer days. It was hard to imagine six months ago. #MorningWERMC
12h49 : Alexis Corbière believes that “perhaps conditions will permit” to organize next year summer days common to all the parties of the Nupes. The elected LFI welcomes, however, that the left-wing parties “invite each other” for these days.
12h08 : Concerning the possibility of a Nupes alliance for the deadline closer to the European elections of 2024, proposed to its partners by LFI, “we refuse nothing on principle”explains the spokesman of the PS. “MBut an electoral agreement is first of all a substantive discussion“believes Pierre Jouvet.
13:11 : “I hope that in 2027, the left will be united and united behind a single candidacy for the presidential election, because, what I want for my country, (…) is that we win.”
The PS spokesman estimated this morning on France Inter that “our responsibility as women and men on the left is (…) to build a common vision to finally be at the head of this country again and change people’s lives”.