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09h12 : It’s 9 o’clock a few minutes past, here is the point on the news:
• Accused of violence by an ex-girlfriend, EELV deputy Julien Bayou has announced that he is resigning from his functions as national secretary of the party.
• Busy day for the executive. The government is presenting three fundamental texts to the Council of Ministers from 10 a.m.: the 2023 finance bill, the social security financing bill and the bill on “accelerating renewable energies”. Follow our live.
• Victory for Giorgia Meloni and her Fratelli d’Italia party, who won the Italian legislative elections. The right-wing coalition could total 43% of the vote according to provisional results published by the Italian Ministry of the Interior.
• Les Bleues are playing their place in the quarter-finals of the Basketball World Cup, which is being played in Australia. They currently lead 48 to 44. Follow the match against Japan in our live.
09h08 : “The price of the package will increase like inflation.”
“It would be paradoxical for the rise in cigarettes to be lower than inflation, given the impact of tobacco on health”, justified the chief executive on BFMTV.
09h06 : “Pensions do not have the virtue of restoring the state budget.”
“The French must be involved in its development”defended François Bayrou about this reform.
08h58 : ???? In the event of an amendment, will MoDem deputies vote against it? ➡️ “They won’t have to vote for it because it would be a 49.3”, for François Bayrou. So they will vote for censorship? “Surely not. We are not going to break the house.” If this option is chosen, “the CNR would be compromised” https://t.co/xnlE8DekdL
09h05 : “I propose, as a citizen, that we can put on the table the reality of the figures”proposes on franceinfo François Bayrou, secretary general of the National Council for Refoundation (CNR), hostile to a forced passage of the pension reform. “If we chose this method [l’utilisation du 49-3 pour faire passer la réforme]I think the CNR would be compromised”, he says.
08h44 : And she’s not the only one in a hurry. The mayor of Reims (Marne), Arnaud Robinet, and member of Edouard Philippe’s Horizons party, believes on franceinfo that there is not “no more time to waste”.
(FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / AFP)
08h43 : “With the partners of the majority, it’s better to discuss in a small committee and that’s good: we have a meeting with the President of the Republic and the leaders of the majority”, said Elisabeth Borne on BFMTV. A response to the attention of François Bayrou, who said he was opposed the forceful passage of the reform.
08h42 : The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, affirms on BFMTV that the pension reform “takes priority”. “With the President of the Republic, we will decide at the end of the week”she said about the method for passing this reform (amendment to the Social Security financing bill or ad hoc bill, with possible use of 49-3).
08h09 : It’s time for our press review. This is the presentation you budget which occupies the headlines of the daily Today in France. “The 49-3 is not a dirty word”, assures the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet.
08h05 : Hello everybody. It’s six o’clock, time for the first point on the news:
• “We will govern for all” the Italians, assured the leader of the right-wing coalition, Giorgia Meloni, during a brief address to the press last night in Rome. The results of the general elections in Italy put his far-right party, Fratelli d’Italia, in the lead in the general elections (more than 25% of the vote).
• While the finance bill will be presented from 10 a.m. in the Council of Ministersthe Social Security deficit was divided by three, to 6.8 billion euros for this year.
• Five rescuers died last night in the Philippinesduring the passage of Typhoon Noru, announced the authorities.
• First defeat of the season in the Top 14 for La Rochelle, facing Clermont. Trapped by solid and aggressive Auvergnats, the Charente club lost 22 to 13 last night.