French press review
In the spotlight: the inauguration of the President of the Republic in Paris
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Emmanuel Macron will be officially invested as President of the Republic this Saturday, May 7, during a ceremony at the Élysée Palace in Paris.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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After De Gaulle, Mitterrand and Chirac, Emmanuel Macron becomes the fourth head of state of the fifth Republic to be re-elected.
To mark the start of his second term, the French president will be stripped down.
“
No red carpet, no going up the Champs-Élysées, and no big speech at the Hôtel de Ville
(…)
A sober investiture
”, underlines
Le Figaro
.
What lead this newspaper to wonder if Emmanuel Macron “
will experience a farewell ceremony or sing a song of departure.
Farewell to the quinquennium which is ending or departure from the quinquennium which is beginning?
".
As this daily underlines and anticipates, for Emmanuel Macron, “
in 2017, a clear project also allowed a clear kick-off.
In 2022, the danger would be that a more floating campaign would lead to a floating presidency.
After the botched speech from the Eiffel Tower, the re-elected president owes the French an inspired speech
, ”prescribes
Le Figaro.
A re-elected president, but still no Prime Minister chosen to replace Jean Castex
And for the newspaper
l'Opinion,
no doubt, the re-elected president “
hides badly
(…)
his hesitation.
Especially since he has suffered a few refusals for a few days
”, states this daily, citing in particular the example of Véronique Bédague, general manager of the real estate group Nexity, who “
also declined
” the offer of the post of Prime Minister. .
The current government remaining in office for the time being, the French are deciding on the profile of the future Prime Minister whom they would like to see appointed to succeed Jean Castex.
The robot portrait drawn by an Odoxa poll for
Le Figaro
indicates that 21% of French people would prefer in particular for it to be a woman, 40% for him or her to have an environmental sensibility, 21% for him or her to be from from the left, 30% that he or she is under 50 years old and 43% that it is a “
creative and sincere
” elected official.
On the left, the day after the creation of the Popular, Ecological and Social Union, the hatchet is still unearthed among the socialists
It is not yet dry, the ink of this alliance of left that already, the socialist deputy Carole Delga street in the stretchers.
In an interview with the newspaper
Le Parisien
, the president of the Occitanie region (south of France), said she wanted, within a fortnight, to bring together "
activists who refuse the liquidation of the Socialist Party
" and saw in this alliance a "
distribution of places between friends
”, in view of the legislative elections next month.
Legislative, precisely.
With a few candidates looming in three of the twelve constituencies of French people living abroad
The Liberation
and
Opinion
dailies
, in particular, lift the veil in the 8th, 9th and 10th districts.
Thus, in the 8th (Southern Europe, Turkey and Israel), outgoing MP Meyer Habib “
could be challenged
” by former journalist Pierre Sled, reports
L'Opinion;
in the 9th (Maghreb and West Africa), M'jid el Guerrab "
is not sure of obtaining the nomination
" of the Renaissance bet (new name of La République en Marche), boldly states this daily, by evoking the procedure in progress before the criminal court, where this outgoing deputy appeared for "
willful violence
", as the site of
Liberation recalls without way...
… For said macronist investiture in this 9th constituency,
Libé
like
l'Opinion
cite the name of journalist Zineb El Rhazoui and that of outgoing MP Amélia Lakrafi in the 10th constituency (central Africa, southern Lebanon and Gulf countries).
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