In the headlines: Biden elected, the relief of the press
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Joe Biden, February 6, 2015, then Vice-President of the United States, in conference at the European Council in Brussels.
AP Photo / Virginia Mayo
By: Norbert Navarro
10 mins
Publicity
Palpable relief, indeed.
"
There is no longer a man in the White House who blows on the embers,
" says
La Voix du Nord.
The newspaper
Les Latest Nouvelles d'Alsace
anticipates and underlines the will of a president "
to move towards more solidarity and add cohesion
", and this transition should allow "the
historic allies of the United States to breathe
" .
The Figaro
judge wonders, however, how Joe Biden will succeed in "
governing with half the country drawn up against its" usurpation
".
"
By inheriting a deeply divided country, [Joe Biden] will have to transform the rejection vote of Trump who made him elect into a vote of reconciliation, as he pledged to do,
" said
Le Parisien.
But the prize for irreverence goes to the newspaper
Le Courrier Picard
, according to which "
this election will finally put an end to the presence on the world stage of an orange clown who has fractured America like never before
".
According to this newspaper from north-central France, "
it was not a question of carrying this image of a brave man to the White House but rather of putting one foot behind the unbearable spoiled child who preceded him
".
The coronavirus blues
In France, the coronavirus has also wreaked havoc on the morale of the French.
According to an Odoxa poll for the weekly
Challenges
, at the end of October, 7 in 10 French people believe that the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic "
will cause a major and lasting global economic crisis
".
Last March, they were only 3 in 10 to think so.
In
Elle
magazine
, François Hollande fears “
the collapse of a number of economic sectors and bankruptcies for craftspeople, traders and small businesses.
This will result in a considerable increase in the number of unemployed and precarious,
”augurs the former socialist president in this women's weekly.
"
It is a real social crash that will occur
", still assures, very wrecker, François Hollande in
Elle.
The battle of social media
After the recent series of terrorist attacks in France, the government is preparing the law on security and the fight against separatism.
And plans to counter the excesses on social networks.
The Minister Delegate for Citizenship Marlène Schiappa told the weekly
L'Obs
, "
the Ministry of the Interior will create a unit of republican counter-discourse on social networks
".
"
The counter-speech unit will be placed under the direction of the Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Crime and Radicalization, of which the prefect Christian Gravel, a close friend of Manuel Valls, has just taken the reins
", adds
L'Obs.
Haro on husbands collectors of wives
Another reform project which concerns polygamy and this time announced in the weekly
Valeurs Actuelles
by Madeleine Schiappa.
The minister said that she hoped "
that no longer a residence permit is issued to a person who lives in a situation of polygamy and who presents himself to enter France
".
The Minister for Citizenship also wants their residence permit to be withdrawn from any person "
who will be found to be in a situation of polygamy
", Marlène Schiappa told
Valeurs Actuelles
.
“
Ouattara ter
” in Ivory Coast!
In Côte d'Ivoire, the third term strongly contested by the opposition also inspires sarcasm in the French press.
Outgoing president Alassane Ouattara was re-
elected
"
with 94.27% of the vote in the first round
", laughs
Le Canard Enchaîné
.
And this “
despite the violence and fraud
”, deplores this weekly, is the “
Ouattara ter
”
mandate
!
By the way, the very irreverent palmipede the French press quotes the spokesperson for the Ivorian Electoral Commission, when he announced the electoral results of the department of Sinématiali: "
Registered 26,706, voters 29,378
"!
For
Le Canard Enchaîné
, there is no doubt that during the presidential election of October 31, it was a “
denial of democracy
” that we were able to witness in Côte d'Ivoire.
Bottles in the sea for hostages on RFI
Tribute to RFI, with the tip of the hat addressed to our radio for broadcasting messages to French hostages during their detention in the Sahel.
It is the magazine
L'Obs
which welcomes these "
good waves for hostages
" that we broadcast during the detention of Sophie Pétronin, as we had done for Ingrid Betancourt or Hervé Ghesquière ... In this weekly, the reader sees Sophie Pétronin, "
just released from four years of captivity in Mali, confide in Serge Daniel
", our correspondent in Bamako, whom she knew "
without ever having seen him
" because she listened to RFI "
and the words dedicated to her by the station
”every Friday.
"
Deep in the jungle, in the Malian desert, in the Afghan dungeons, the waves carry,
" notes
L'Obs.
Weekly in which Cécile Mégie, director of RFI, evoking the decision to broadcast these messages, assures him: “
We are not asking for authorization, we are warning the Quai d'Orsay and the family.
Without any reaction from them, we go
”.
Words on the air, "
like so many bottles in the sea
", intended for the living, somewhere, to help them stay alive.
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