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In the press this morning, the victory of the center-right in the legislative elections in Portugal, after eight years of socialist government.
“A country on the right,” announces the newspaper
Publico
, with, on the front page, the winner of the day, the head of the Democratic Alliance, Luis Montenegro.
A relative winner, however, since even adding the elected representatives of the small liberal party, IL, the AD does not obtain an absolute majority - hence the play on words in the
Diario de Noticias
: "The AD plus IL, that is not enough", an allusion to the name of the far-right party "Chega", which means "enough", and which is recording an unprecedented surge. "A fragile victory, a broken country": the
Jornal de Noticias
indicates that Luis Montenegro "begins a cycle of change, despite his very short lead", noting the "explosive" growth of Chega, the party of André Ventura.
The
Diario de Noticias
finds it hard to believe that after almost 50 years of democracy, the Portuguese voted for a party, Chega, "clearly opposed to the democratic revolution", a state of affairs in which the newspaper sees proof that "many promises of the carnation revolution of April 25, 1974 have not been kept.
The newspaper
Publico
accuses the Portuguese left of having itself "enlarged" Chega's populists, and that Chega "ate" it, by managing to "repoliticize" a country where "anti-system sentiment " is "deeply rooted".
“Nao é nao” (no means no): even if the head of the Democratic Alliance, Luis Montenegro, assures that he will not govern with the populists, Correio
da Manhã
wonders if the center-right will be able to withstand “hurricane” André Ventura.
On the front page of the French press, Emmanuel Macron's interview with
Libération
and
La Croix
, to announce a draft law on the end of life.
By granting this interview to two daily newspapers with diametrically opposed views on euthanasia, the president is trying to remain faithful to his line of "at the same time", by announcing a text providing for the possibility of requesting "assisted death", but in strictly regulated conditions.
But if
Libération
is "rejoiced" that the president has "finally changed his mind" on "the delicate subject of the end of life", which he had refused to address during his first five-year term,
La Croix
, on the other hand , expresses his "concern" and questions the relevance of this text, in a context where "the crisis in hospitals is dramatic" and where "the provision of palliative care remains insufficient".
The Christian newspaper believes that "the fraternity would be better placed in assisted living than in assisted dying."
The French press also returns this morning to the controversy surrounding the singer Aya Nakamura, expected to sing a song by Edith Piaf during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics. Since
L'Express
reported last month , that Emmanuel Macron would like to see the rapper sing at the Olympics, the controversy rages on social networks and does not die down, to the point that the local newspaper
Midi Libre
outright draws a survey, according to which 63% of those questioned say they do not not wish that Aya Nakamura would perform on this occasion.
Ouest France
, another local daily, however, recalls that the singer has acquired, in recent years, "an undeniable international stature", her songs notably counting more than 6 billion plays on a streaming platform, where she has 8.5 million monthly listeners.
After a demonstration by the far-right collective "Les Natifs", Saturday evening, to oppose the performance of the singer from Bamako, under banners displaying: "There's no way Aya, this is Paris, not the Bamako market", the artist, quoted by
Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France,
responded herself on social networks: "You can be racist but not deaf. That's what hurts you. I becomes a number one state subject in debates, etc. But what do I really owe you? Kedal".
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