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In the spotlight: Easter without voting instructions for Christians in France
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The two finalists for the 2022 French presidential election, Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron.
AFP - JULIEN DE ROSA,CHARLES PLATIAU
By: Norbert Navarro
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One week before the second round of the presidential election, "
we are not giving voting instructions
", said Bishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort to the newspaper
Le Parisien Dimanche
.
Archbishop of Reims, this prelate has just been re-elected president of the Conference of Bishops.
On this Easter Sunday – the most important feast of Christianity – the head of the Church of France is therefore careful not to launch the slightest appeal to Catholic voters in favor of this or that.
“
But we want everyone to question the meaning and consequences of their vote, for themselves and for the human family,
” he adds.
If they vote, it is up to Christian voters to choose which ballot they will slip into the ballot box, but "
in any case,
adds Mgr de Moulins-Beaufort in
Le Parisien Dimanche, between the two candidates and their conception of life, neither is totally satisfactory from our point of view
”.
LFI's "
ni-ni "
No more voting instructions from
La France insoumise.
On the evening of the first round, its leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon had said: “
not a vote for Marine Le Pen
”.
A week from the second, his party remains with this antiphrase.
“
We will not call for a vote for Emmanuel Macron, who has destroyed our country for five years.
It's up to Macron to convince
," said MP Mathilde Panot in
Le Journal du Dimanche
.
President of the LFI group in the National Assembly, the deputy for the 10th constituency of the Val-de-Marne department, near Paris, also evokes in
Le JDD
the discussions to come within the left, including ecologists, with a view to legislative elections next June.
“
We want to be in the majority to govern this country
,” she told the
Journal du Dimanche
.
Vae victis
for the socialists
Discussions, yes, but not with the Socialist Party.
Reproaching her candidate Anne Hidalgo for her frontal attacks against Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the last weeks of the first-round electoral campaign, Mathilde Panot slams the door in the face of the socialists.
With the PS, “
there will be no discussions, and this refusal is final
”, she decides in
Le JDD
.
Vae victis
…
The France of beavers
We see the absence of voting instructions for next Sunday becomes a point of political tension in this final stretch of the presidential election.
For the weekly
Paris Match
,
for example, if Nicolas Sarkozy's call to vote for Macron in the second round is contrary to the "ni-nor" advocated by many of his friends, this "alliance" with Emmanuel Macron is, according to the former French president, "
the only way to prevent the disappearance of the right of government
“, explains this weekly, in reference to the collapse, in the ballot boxes, of the party Les Républicains, have the candidate, Valérie Pécresse, collected 4.8% of the votes in the first round, last Sunday, below the bar of 5 % from which a party is reimbursed for its campaign expenses within the limits set by law.
But as Nicolas Sarkozy is not the only one to have called to vote Macron,
Le Figaro Magazine
is ironic on "
the France of beavers
".
Because, as this weekly underlines, “
most of the candidates have called for 'blocking the far right'.
Here are the voters transformed into beavers
”, teases
Le Fig Mag
.
Sankara, the
African
"Che"
Tribute, finally, to Thomas Sankara in the magazine press this week.
The trial of the assassins of the former Burkinabè president now over, his successor Blaise Compaoré having been found guilty of his assassination, more than ever, Sankara is a true African icon.
And not just in Africa.
In France also.
This is what notes
M,
the magazine of the newspaper
Le Monde.
Report in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris, where a 33-meter high fresco in the image of Thomas Sankara dominates a city street.
Painted on the wall of a building, it represents the ex-president of the country of
honest men
, a determined gaze, a clenched fist.
“
The revolutionary ideas of the man who opposed corruption as much as imperialism resonate strongly in France among young people and in pop culture
,” assures
Mr
.
Magazine for which, too, Thomas Sankara is "
the African Che
".
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