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In the spotlight: the lying poker of the PS
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France insoumise and the first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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The French Socialist Party is in full storm.
After having accepted, Friday morning, proposals from the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, La France insoumise, a dramatic turn of events at midday: the PS suspended its participation in negotiations within the left, in view of the June legislative elections. next: “
The soap opera continues.
It makes us lose our heads
,” sighs
Liberation
.
On this eve of May 1, Labor Day dear to the left, the PS is "
on the edge of the split
", launches
Le Figaro in One.
As a reminder, on Friday morning, the leadership of the Socialist Party indeed announced that it subscribed to the proposals of the program of La France insoumise, such as the increase in the minimum wage to 1,400 euros net per month, retirement at 60, ecological planning, the Sixth Republic, but also the non-respect of “
certain
European rules”.
At midday, boom!
The socialist leadership, the very one that had initially subscribed to the proposals of La France insoumise, announced in full confusion the suspension of negotiations with the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
In the meantime, what happened?
According to
Le Parisien
, "
it seems to be mainly the allocation of constituencies that caused the Socialists to backpedal
".
Being reminded that, the day before, on the antennas of the radio
France Info
, the former socialist president François Hollande had said that an agreement between the PS and Jean-Luc Mélenchon would be "
a questioning of the very history of socialism
»…
Le Figaro
lends Jean-Luc Mélenchon this formula: “
It smells of history!
".
Presenting him in a position of strength in this real showdown which opposes him to certain caciques of the PS,
Le Figaro
underlines that Jean-Luc Mélenchon “
prefers to give time to time
(…)
Why hurry, moreover, when we have won the battle of the left
(…)
he has less to lose than them.
Certainly the union is a condition for him to win.
For others, it is a condition for survival.
Without a deputy, the PS dies definitively
, ”warns
Le Figaro.
Pimpernel in lily of the valley
Negotiations in which environmentalists and communists also participate, and which take place on the eve of a most social weekend.
May 1st tomorrow.
And the first “ under tension
” social test
of Macron’s second five-year term, underlines
Le Parisien
.
In the columns of this daily, the secretary general of the CGT employees' union calls for a mobilization on May 1 "
as massively as possible
" in the street, around the question of wages, that of employment, social protection and pensions.
According to Philippe Martinez, Emmanuel Macron was certainly re-elected, "
but he was not well elected
".
As a result of which "
there is no question of [him] leaving a blank check
", said Philippe Martinez to the
Parisian.
The shopping of Coralie Dubost
Figurehead of La République en Marche, MP Coralie Dubost used part of her mandate expense allowance in inappropriate expenses.
According to
Mediapart
, the delegate president of the LREM group at the National Assembly, was pinned in a “
confidential report
” by the ethics officer of the National Assembly for expense reports “
which did not fall within the scope
” of authorized expenses.
Mediapart notably reports “
monthly clothing expenses within a range of 1,500 to 2,000 euros
”.
Coralie Dubost, for example, would have used more than 500 euros of public money in lingerie purchases.
In October 2018, she would have even spent more than 3,300 euros on clothes, in particular on online sales sites.
The deputy of Emmanuel Macron's party also paid a bill of 194 euros at a restaurant on the beach, in a seaside resort in the south of France.
So many expenses that have since “
been regularized
”, assured Coralie Dubost to Mediapart.
“
I was stupid
(…)
I am not a cheater
”, she defended herself to this online newspaper.
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