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On the front page of the press, the examination, in France, by deputies, of the constitutional revision project aimed at guaranteeing women the freedom to resort to abortion.
Fifty-one years after the promulgation of the Veil law decriminalizing abortion, will the right to abortion enter the Constitution?
This legislative fight, started in 2017, is defended by
L'Humanité
, long-time supporter of IVG, which believes that its outcome would be "a symbol beyond our borders, at a time when the right to abortion is banned in (several) countries or subjected to the wrath of conservative revolutions which trample on the rights and freedoms of women.
On the front page of l'Humanité on January 24: IVG, I write your name
📰: https://t.co/s4nZf9skga pic.twitter.com/B1UjzO8EJV
— L’Humanité (@humanite_fr) January 23, 2024
Libération
specifies that this constitutional bill, to be adopted, must be voted on in the same terms in the Assembly and the Senate, then find a three-fifths majority of parliamentarians meeting in Congress on March 5.
According to Libé, the draft constitutional law would have the advantage, compared to a proposed constitutional law, "of avoiding the holding of a referendum which would have given more visibility to anti-abortionists".
La Croix
warns, however, that the game is far from won, because of the opposition from part of the right and the extreme right, who believe that the right to abortion is not threatened in France .
An argument to which the left responds that 130 abortion centers have been closed over the last fifteen years, which also raises the question of unequal access to voluntary termination of pregnancy in France.
The French press returns to the farmers' protest movement, whose mobilization is gaining momentum.
Libération
, which evokes "the anatomy of a struggle", in reference to the film by Justine Triet, selected for the Oscars, reports the government's fears of a "stagnation" in the face of the "deep" crisis in the sector.
The death on Tuesday of a breeder and her daughter on an agricultural dam in the southwest further fuels "anger", and
La Dépêche du Midi
indicates that the FNSEA, the main agricultural union, says that there will be “no lifting of actions”, as long as there are “no concrete decisions”.
Will the blockages last?
Can protests degenerate?
Farmers: anatomy of a struggle
It's the front page of @Libe this Wednesday
Read: https://t.co/nj2k4mQp7h pic.twitter.com/I6BITRlFxg
— Libération (@libe) January 23, 2024
In an interview with the Belgian daily
Le Soir
, law enforcement specialist Sebastian Roché asserts that the French farmers' demonstrations "show clearly that they are not subject to the same treatment as environmental activists, the yellow vests or even youth.
A difference explained by the fact that "farmers are used to demonstrations, that they are very present in union and political bodies and therefore when a demonstration is planned, an organization is managed upstream with the authorities".
Sébastien Roché notes that the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, "however gives signs of appeasement to farmers" very far from "the logic of confrontation in which he was with the environmental movements", which he even described as " of eco-terrorists.
A gap also linked to the "capital sympathy" that farmers enjoy with the French, who support them by more than 80%, according to a recent survey.
The movement of farmers eclipses – for the moment – that of fishermen from the Bay of Biscay, held at the dock for a month because of an order intended to protect dolphins.
The foreign press, taken up by
Courrier International
, speaks of a "hard blow" for the fishermen, compensated at "around 80%" of their turnover, while they too are confronted with "bureaucratic red tape, stricter regulations, and the irregularity of their income.
Difficulties that the head of the National Rally did not fail to note during a trip to Brittany on Tuesday.
According to
L'Obs
, Jordan Bardella dreams of a "convergence of struggles between fishermen and farmers" but would not have proposed "much new" to fishermen, "except the already known catalog of measures (proposed to) farmers – such as the proposal to establish an “agricultural exception” to preserve the European Union’s free trade agreement sector.”
🇫🇷 Seen from abroad.
The cessation of fishing in the Bay of Biscay, a contested decision.
From Finistère to the Basque Country, part of fishing has been stopped to protect dolphins.
But the sector fears “social breakdown” in a profession in... https://t.co/6iVDTM7QJf
— Courrier inter (@courrierinter) January 23, 2024
Anatomy of a Struggle, “Anatomy of a Fall”: a huge success for the film by French director Justine Triet, which landed five Oscar nominations, including best film and best director.
Libération
evokes a success with a "pronounced taste of revenge", after the film was snubbed by the National Cinema Center, the CNC, which did not select it to represent France, and especially after Justine Triet was covered of insults on social networks for having used the Cannes festival ceremony last May as a platform to support the “extremely powerful and unanimous historic protest of pension reform” and criticize the government.
The latter welcomed, on Tuesday, through the Minister of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire, another French award.
Le Figaro
announces that France has just won the world baking championship, ahead of South Korea and Japan – a first in 16 years.
A title won thanks to a sculpture on the theme of fencing, of course at the Paris Olympics.
She will not be at the Olympic Games, but her performance is praised by
The Guardian
.
Canadian swimmer Betty Brussel, almost a hundred years old, alone broke three world records in the 100 to 104 year old category.
A category in which it is often the only one to appear, due to a lack of competitors.
Betty Brussel, it seems, took up swimming… at 68 years old.
Proof that it's never too late.
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