The former Minister of Justice of François Hollande has fixed for “January 15 at the latest” the announcement of his decision on a possible candidate for the presidential election in April.
Deploring the current “deadlock” on the left, Christiane Taubira no longer hides her ambitions so much, and will be in Bondy on Sunday morning, in support of Sylvine Thomassin, candidate for union of the left for the new municipal election in the city.
For the moment, five main candidates remain on the left, without counting Christiane Taubira. Only the latter and the socialist Anne Hidalgo plead for a primary which would lead to a single candidacy, at least in the space of “social-ecology”.
But Saturday, after having collected in front of the tomb of the former president François Mitterrand (1981-1995) in Jarnac (Charente), the candidate PS recognized the failure “for the moment” of his proposal, pointing in particular the refusal of the ecologist Yannick Jadot.
“I will not participate alone in a primary if one of the political forces” and its candidate Mr. Jadot “refuse to participate, while that is where it made sense”, hammered Ms. Hidalgo Sunday on Cnews and Europe 1.
“I’m not saying + it’s over today,” she added, referring to the People’s Primary: “on January 15th we will see who would like to participate or not”.
The green candidate will have the opportunity to respond to him on Sunday via the media, during the program Political Questions (France Inter-France Info-Le Monde) at midday.
At the same time, two other candidates on the left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) and Fabien Roussel (PCF), just as reluctant to the idea of a primary, will be the guests respectively of the Grand Jury RTL-Le Figaro-LCI and Sunday in politics on France 3.
Macron target of the right
On the far right side, Marine Le Pen ends her tour of Occitania on Sunday by going in the morning to two border posts with Spain, before visiting without press an Administrative Detention Center (CRA) for foreigners who are the subject of an expulsion decision in Perpignan.
She will then develop her proposals against immigration alongside the city’s National Rally mayor, Louis Aliot.
His far-right rival Eric Zemmour (Reconquest!) Will present his wishes to the press on Monday from his campaign HQ in Paris, and will also unveil the first theme of his program.
The right is not left out: Valérie Pécresse, the Republican candidate, is preparing a trip to city policy on Monday.
Saturday, she gathered her staff and targeted Emmanuel Macron, a president “pyromaniac” and “disconnected from the deep aspirations” of the French according to her.
“If he allows himself to + piss off + the French, why would the French respect the state, would they respect each other? It fuels the rejection of all authority figures,” she said. lambasted in front of the press, in reference to the shattering statements of Emmanuel Macron, decided to “piss off” the unvaccinated against Covid-19.
A few days after these controversial remarks, the demonstrations of the anti-sanitary pass and “anti-tax” experienced a very clear rebound on Saturday, with 105,200 participants throughout France according to the Ministry of the Interior, a mobilization more than quadrupled compared to the previous one, December 18.
The bill establishing the vaccination pass, adopted Thursday morning by the deputies in pain, arrives Monday in committee in the Senate dominated by the right, then Tuesday in the hemicycle.
“We will vote for the vaccine pass” but “we particularly want to provide for an expiry system” for this pass, “when the health situation has improved,” repeated in the JDD the boss of senators LR Bruno Retailleau. And to launch: “The Senate will not fall into the trap set for it Emmanuel Macron, who wants to pose as the sole protector of the French” in the face of the epidemic wave sweeping over France.