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On the agenda for February 16
Speech. At 9:15 a.m., Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, sovereignist candidate in the presidential election, held a press conference in Paris. At 7 p.m., Fabien Roussel (French Communist Party) has planned a meeting in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), a communist city almost continuously since 1935.
Big gap. Emmanuel Macron will participate at the beginning of the followingnoon, in Toulouse, in the informal meeting of European ministers responsible for space. This meeting is organized within the framework of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU). At 6 p.m., the Head of State is expected in Paris, at Station F, for the conference of the French Development Agency, entitled “Investing together, for a new alliance between Africa and Europe” in ahead of the EU-African Union summit. As a reminder, it was in the same place that he had pronounced the sentence that he regrets today: “A station is a place where you meet successful people and people who are nothing, because it’s a place where you pass, a place you share (…) »
Protest. The Taubira 2022 collective calls for a rally in front of the Constitutional Council at 7:30 p.m. to question it on the supposed blocking of sponsorships for their candidate.
In the post. The candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, is the guest of the program “Mission Convince” on LCI at 8:40 p.m., facing French women and men who no longer believe in politics.
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