Le Monde keeps the logbook of the 2022 presidential election campaign: a weekly update is published on Friday, which returns in words and images to the political facts of the past week and discusses the upcoming meetings.
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Vaccination pass: the bill adopted in the Assembly following three days of hectic debates
Initially, the government wanted to move quickly. A review of the bill in the National Assembly on Monday January 5, then a second in the Senate on Wednesday, for entry into force on January 15. But all did not go as planned for the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass. As of Monday evening, faced with the slowed down and heated examination of the first amendments – out of a total of more than 500 -, the deputies voted by show of hands to suspend discussions following midnight.
Although they have the majority in the Chamber, the deputies of La République en Marche were trapped by the “curtain call” launched by the opposition, finding themselves in the minority during the vote. This surprise suspension of sitting therefore marks a first setback for the government. Despite palpable tension in the corridors of the National Assembly, the debates finally resumed Tuesday evening, with the adoption of more than fifty amendments. But a new twist came to disrupt the examination of the text. At 8:46 p.m., the daily The Parisian publishes on his site an interview with Emmanuel Macron: the Head of State affirms in particular to want “Piss off” the unvaccinated.
The shock wave of his words echoed to the benches of the Hemicycle. With reminders of the rules and suspensions of sitting, the opposition slows down the examination of the text and demands the presence of the Prime Minister in front of the deputies to explain itself. In vain. “The conditions for peaceful work are not met”, then proclaimed the chairman of the meeting, Marc Le Fur (Les Républicains, LR), around 2 a.m., suspending the meeting once more. Consideration of the text was finally resumed following Mr. Castex visited the Assembly on Wednesday followingnoon. This allowed MEPs to adopt the text around 5 a.m. on Thursday, by 214 votes in favor, 93 once morest and 27 abstentions. The Senate will consider the bill from Monday, January 10. However, with the cumulative delay, it is now unlikely that the vaccine pass will enter into force on January 15.
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“Pissing off the unvaccinated”: Emmanuel Macron’s desire to divide
A controversial release… but totally assumed. In the midst of a debate on the implementation of the vaccine pass to fight once morest Covid-19, Emmanuel Macron clearly displayed his intentions during an interview with readers of the Parisian. “Me, I’m not for pissing off the French. I plague the administration all day long when it blocks them. Well there, the unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so we will continue to do so, until the end. That’s the strategy “, he notably proclaimed.
If the oppositions cried scandal in the hours that followed, this exit is not a slippage. Far from being remarks which would have escaped its author – the interview was reread by the Elysee Palace before its publication -, they are rather part of a totally calculated tactical operation, orchestrated directly by the “president quasi-candidate” , in order to destabilize its main adversaries, three months before the election.
For its part, the majority greeted ” franchise ” of the Head of State. “What the President of the Republic said, I hear it everywhere and you know it, notably affirmed Jean Castex to the Assembly. There is a form of exasperation of our citizens to see a whole form of constraints imposed on them when others choose to free themselves from it, (…) the words of the President of the Republic are fully consistent with what we do. ”
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On security, Valérie Pécresse brings out “the Kärcher”
On the right, all. Embarrassed by the divisions of the deputies of her party on the adoption of the vaccine pass, the candidate of the Republicans, Valérie Pécresse, tried to put security back at the heart of her campaign, Thursday, January 6. On the occasion of a trip to Bouches-du-Rhône and Vaucluse andan interview at Provence, she even used a formula with a strong right-wing connotation. “I’m going to bring the Kärcher out of the cellar”, she said, referring to the formula of Nicolas Sarkozy, who in 2005 had promised a resident of La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis) to ” to clean ” the city “At the Kärcher”.
During his trip on Thursday, Mme Pécresse also pleaded in favor of the creation of “Provisional detention centers”, deeming the number of executions of short sentences insufficient. “We will promise to provide 20,000 additional prison places (…), but they will not emerge from the ground in the summer. (…) We are going to open provisional detention centers in disused buildings ”, she explained from Salon-de-Provence.
During this back-to-school week, candidate LR also inaugurated her campaign headquarters in Paris and presented her organization chart, which includes all the unfortunate candidates of the Congress, as political advisers. Eric Ciotti thus inherits the question of “Authority”, Michel Barnier from that of “The place of France and Europe in the world”, Xavier Bertrand from ” job “ and “Territories” and Philippe Juvin from the ” health “.
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In the archives of the “World” … When François Bayrou set out to meet Internet users in 2002
It was twenty years ago, but politicians were already looking for modern means to interest the French in political life. At the time, the Internet was the miracle solution. In any case, this is what the UDF candidate for the 2002 presidential election, François Bayrou, believed. Just twenty years ago The world said that the current mayor of Pau had just opened his campaign site a few days before.
“The candidate has announced his intention to chat live, once a week, with Internet users who so wish. The first cat [discussion sur le Web alimentée par des messages], which took place on Friday in writing – the following being provided in pictures, with Webcam – lasted only regarding fifteen minutes ”, informs the journalist of World, Jean-Baptiste de Montvalon.
A new way of reconnecting the French with politics, hopes Mr. Bayrou. “At a time when more and more French people are moving away from political life, the Internet is undoubtedly a chance to reweave a link, to recreate a proximity between public officials and citizens”, he said at the time. Without suspecting that twenty years later, and despite the boom “From the Internet”, the French continue to move further away from politics.
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On the menu for the next few days:
Security. After Valérie Pécresse, it is around Emmanuel Macron to go to the South on the theme of security. The President of the Republic will go in particular to Nice, where he will meet the security forces and lay the first stone of the future “police hotel” which will bring together several security forces (national and municipal police, border police, judicial police, etc.) . Mr. Macron will also visit the Roya valley, more than a year following the deadly floods that devastated several villages.
Tribute and program. As the left begins a crucial month of January, the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo goes to Jarnac (Charente) on Saturday for a tribute to ex-President François Mitterrand. The mayor of Paris will then unveil his program on Thursday in Paris.
Vaccination pass. After an eventful adoption at first reading in the Assembly, the bill transforming the health pass into a vaccination pass arrives at the Senate with an examination of the text in committee on Monday January 10 and in the hemicycle from the next day. “I would like the Senate to vote on this amended text”, has already announced the president of the High Assembly, Gérard Larcher, in an interview with Figaro.
“Le Monde” launches its direct. Less than three months from the presidential election and five months from the legislative elections, The world launches, from January 10, a daily direct to follow these two campaigns and their many twists. Follow-up of the candidates’ movements and speeches, analysis of their proposals, organization of chats with journalists from the World and specialists… Find us from Monday to Friday, from 7 am, on LeMonde.fr and on the mobile application The world.