In the spotlight: Baroin package for the presidential election
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François Baroin, upon his arrival at the Republican political office, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Patrick KOVARIK / AFP
By: Norbert Navarro
9 min
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The French right is more than ever encalminated.
Often approached as a future candidate for the Les Républicains party, François Baroin will probably not be, his head elsewhere.
According to
Mediapart
, François Baroin "
entered into advanced discussions this summer with the American bank Morgan Stanley with a view to replacing the current CEO of its French subsidiary
".
François Baroin, future banker?
According to
Le Figaro
, the person concerned has in any case made his decision, "
he will not be a presidential candidate
."
Expected clarification that falls in the middle of the summer school of the Republicans, gathered since this Friday near Paris, in a “
gloomy
”
back-to-school atmosphere
, admits
Le Figaro.
Francois Baroin?
Yet it is "
the best hope of the right for 2022
", formulates
Le Parisien
.
It was.
In this daily, Christian Jacob, president of the Republicans and first lawyer of a Baroin candidacy, whispers: “
Of course, I still hope
”, while refusing to “
believe in a package
” of his foal.
When Marine watches the right sinking
An expected package, therefore, which will certainly not sadden the militants of the National Rally.
Exactly.
This weekend is back to school for Marine Le Pen.
It is in Fréjus, in the south-east of France, that the president of the National Rally has an appointment this weekend with her activists.
"
I fear no one
", said to the daily
Le Parisien
the already presidential candidate of 2022 Marine Le Pen, pointing to the "
deep disaffection
" of the electorate of the right-wing party The Republicans, a formation which has "
no natural leader
”, she adds, and“
nothing more to say nor to propose
”.
The Republicans "will
continue their implosion
", predicts the president of the National Rally in
Le Parisien
.
Welcome transition to Mali
In Mali, the national consultation promised by the junta will take place.
Today, the National Committee for the Salvation of the People is launching the debate on political transition.
To the great satisfaction of Malians.
And as
Liberation
points out
, in Mali, the army “
is still in the process
”, in reference not only to the military coup d'état last month, but also to the expression meaning that the mutineers of August 18 are, not only still in charge of the country, but in addition, they continue to benefit from a "
state of grace
", underlines
Libé.
As proof, this daily reports a recent telephone survey, and according to which “
63
% of Malians questioned want [the putschists] to remain in power to lead the transition.
The plebiscite is especially marked among young people,
underlines
Liberation.
The majority of those over 50 would prefer a civilian to quickly return to the helm.
Because this generation was in its twenties in 1991, when General Moussa Traoré fell;
she experienced the brutality of the dictatorship.
One of his killers, Amadou Toumani Touré, who was then elected president, was also a soldier,
”recalls
Libé.
Ouattara, a bulky friend for Macron
Few comments in the press, on the other hand, on the meeting this Friday at the Elysee Palace between Emmanuel Macron and Alassane Ouattara, who is seeking a third term in Côte d'Ivoire.
And for good reason, since at the end of this meeting, the Élysée was careful not to communicate.
Discretion pointed out by the website of
Liberation
, which underlines the "
deafening silence
" of the French president and who wonders if, in his speech this Friday morning at the Pantheon, during the commemoration of the 150 years of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron n 'had not "
sent a subliminal message to his Ivorian counterpart
", insisting in his speech on "
the importance of citizenship and the rights that accompany it
".
Being reminded that in March, Alassane Ouattara had announced that he would not stand again and that in August, he decided otherwise,
Liberation
reports that "
this turnaround now seems to put Paris, which would gladly do without a new electoral crisis in Côte d'Ivoire, in embarrassment
”.
In
Liberation
, Ivorian political scientist Franck Hermann Ekra declares that Emmanuel Macron "
will have to take responsibility for the past of the relationship between the two countries and will not be able to hide behind an apparent neutrality
".
In
Le Figaro
, Ivorian Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko declares that by presenting his candidacy for a third term, President Ouattara had made a “difficult” decision.
And
Le Figaro
predicts a “perilous” presidential election in Côte d'Ivoire.
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