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In the spotlight: the specter of the far right…
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Marine Le Pen, on April 10, 2022, leaves the voting booth in Hénin-Beaumont, a few hours before qualifying for the second round of the presidential election.
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Do you smell this smell?
It smells of fear this morning in the newspapers!
And there is obviously something, when you turn the pages.
Les Échos
first of all alerts us to “
the dangers
” of Marine Le Pen's program, with in particular “
measures with contested social virtues, at an exorbitant cost
” estimates the economic newspaper.
With “
measures on purchasing power which appear legally impractical and economically inefficient
”.
A threat to the rule of law
But it's not just the economy.
There is more broadly, the "
threat
" that Marine Le Pen represents for the rule of law, as
Le Monde
explains , the possible "
break with republican principles
".
"
Le Pen
: freedoms, my eye
", title of its
Liberation
side which also sees in its program "
a negation of the rule of law
".
As my former professor of constitutional law, Dominique Rousseau, says a page later: “
in reality, Marine Le Pen wants to circumvent Parliament and the Constitutional Council
”.
According to him, his project would simply break "
the balance of power
".
The risk of the privatization of public broadcasting
However, it is obviously not the relationship that the candidate of the RN has with the public audiovisual sector which would suggest the opposite.
It wishes to sell to the private sector France Télévisions, Radio France, and even our company France Médias Monde.
This shows, at Marine Le Pen, "
a desire to create media defending its action
", analyzes
Libé
.
But
Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui in France
tries another approach.
Its editorial believes that "
demonizing the National Rally will be useless, [because] this strategy has never worked
" so far.
For
Le Parisien
, it is rather "
highlight the reality of his project
".
A kind of "
frexit
" which does not say its name, for example, its ideological links with the Hungarian Viktor Orban, or even its desire to get closer to Vladimir Putin once the war in Ukraine is over.
But
“
we still have to remind Marine Le Pen that, in the meantime, the master of the Kremlin will have massacred an entire people
”.
The War in Ukraine
Libé
speaks to us precisely of the investigations carried out in Boutcha, "
bullets in the neck, civilians shot in the back
", in short of an "
open-air crime scene
".
Le Figaro
returns to him on the fate of the refugees who fled the country, from Istanbul, to Belgrade, via Tijuana, or the "
little Ukraine
" in Brazil, the city of Prudentopolis, in the South.
Le Parisien
is worried about the imminent fall of Mariupol, when
Le Monde
tells us, precisely, how "
Putin's Rosgvardia
", the Russian national guard, intends "
to take military-police control of the conquered cities
".
A glow all the same
La Croix
: after the withdrawal of the Russians around Kiev, "
life is slowly resuming
" in the Ukrainian capital.
His name was Michel Bouquet...
He was "
the last giant
", this is how
Le Figaro
presents him ... Unanimous tributes this morning after the death of the actor on Wednesday April 13 in Paris, at the age of 96.
"
A discreet legend
who has served theater and cinema throughout a career spanning 75 years
".
"
A sacred monster
"
for
Liberation
, "
the privileged interpreter of Molière and Ionesco
",
can we read.
"
Michel Bouquet, final
" title Libé:
"
he will have marked the French theater by the sobriety and the intensity of his game.
"
Headache, scourge of humanity
Politics, war, the greats who are dying out… All that, in the end, gives a lot of headaches!
As if we needed that: “
more than half of humanity [already] has a headache
”.
You know, the "
bar in the skull
", to use the words of
Parisian-Today in France
.
The newspaper explains that this affects one person in two every year, and every day one person in six on average.
Le Parisien
relies on a study published by
The journal of Headache and Pain
, the "
journal of headache and pain in French
"
, it can't be invented.
And for parity, there too, it will be necessary to go back: “
women are more affected
,” it read.
Fortunately, there are remedies, a small aspirin tablet for example for simple temporary pain.
But for chronic migraine sufferers, there is also a preventive treatment, injections available for a few months in France, Emgality is the name of the product manufactured by the Eli Lily laboratory.
That said, the injection costs €300, to be renewed every 28 days.
But even at this price, it only really works with one out of three migraine sufferers.
So there is a remedy, yes, but unfortunately no miracle!
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