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On the front page of the French press, the resignation yesterday of the High Commissioner for Pensions, after the revelations on his "oversights" in his declaration of interests.
After several days of controversy over his undeclared activities and mandates, Jean-Paul Delevoye was forced to throw in the towel - a resignation which comes on the eve of another big day of union mobilization - "at the worst time" for the government, according to Le Parisien / today in France , which warns however those who hope for an postponement of the pension reform, that they will be "probably for their own cost", because "it is the commitment of reform that united the electorate "of Emmanuel Macron. In any case, the Delevoye affair inspires press cartoonists. Ranson, for Le Parisien , shows Prime Minister Edouard Philippe asking Jean-Paul Delevoye "what are these pans". "These are not pans, these are my caps," retorts the former commissioner. On the front page of Ocean Press , Frap laughs at his resignation: "What am I going to do?" I'm not going to retire anyway, ”worries Jean-Paul Delevoye. If the government insists that his departure will not divert him from his trajectory, the cascading "oversights" of Jean-Paul Delevoye tarnish his image. "Amateurs", pokes Liberation , for whom this affair "casts a shadow on the" government of the best "supposed to implement the reforming know-how of the Macronians". "The macronists do not have harsh words for the political professionals who dominated the old world", cingle Libé: "We see what has happened since we replaced them with amateurs".
The Delevoye affair is also widely commented on by the foreign press, which closely follows the pension reform in France. Courrier International cites in particular the Swiss daily Le Temps , which speaks of a "major political setback" for the government, which had made Jean-Paul Delevoye its "tsar" for pension reform. The Spanish newspaper El Mundo notes that the former commissioner "did not manage to avoid the conflict", while Le Soir , in Belgium, believes that the affair of his mandates has "aggravated the social crisis" .
The government is today facing the first unitary mobilization of the unions, a first since 2010. According to Le Figaro , the unions hope to make a "show of force to force the government to withdraw its project", the objective being to exceed the million demonstrators. "No doubt they will be able to count on the usual battalions of the public service. But perhaps not on the other France, that of the private sector, which is undergoing the strike and which has so far been very discreet in the parades ”, criticizes the newspaper. "Rising like never before": according to Le Courrier Picard , "the mobilization expected today will be decisive" for the unions, invited tomorrow Matignon to try to find a way out of the crisis before Christmas. "All together": L'Humanité announces a "big day of mobilization everywhere in France", "a day of action (which) will weigh heavily in the balance, much more than a resignation, so that Emmanuel's obstinacy Macron to break the right to pensions, does not disturb Christmas ".
Demonstrations also in India, where the revolt of students against the nationality law intensifies. According to The Hindu , student mobilization is spreading throughout the country, where several demonstrations, sometimes violent, have taken place since the adoption of this text, which attributes Indian citizenship to refugees from neighboring countries, with the exception of Muslims. This law, considered "anti-Muslim" by its opponents, and described as "fundamentally discriminatory" by the United Nations, is a flagship project of the Hindu nationalist government of Narendra Modi, the expression of "personal" interests, seeking to "divide "Indian society, he said, according to The Times of India .
We do not leave each other on it. If you have a lot of imagination and are interested in a military career, I have THE job that might be right for you. Le Figaro reports that the French army will recruit science fiction authors to support it in its missions of forecasting and anticipating threats by 2030-2060. A dozen feathers will be recruited by February 15. Visionary authors wishing to join this “red team”, as it is called, can send their applications on the website of the Ministry of Defense.
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