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THE SUNDAY NOTEBOOKS. For 48 hours, the current local elected official had been chosen by Emmanuel Macron to become his Prime Minister. Backstage.
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By Hervé Gattegno
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A-have we ever seen such a gogo-catcher? The program of the Nupes (New ecological and social Popular Union, the rally of the left orchestrated by Jean-Luc Mélenchon) deserves to be read in detail, because it makes it possible to understand why some of its most emblematic measures will never be applied – even in the highly unlikely event that this alliance would have a majority at the end of the legislative elections of June 12 and 19.
In the 650 measures of this new “common program”, melenchonists, socialists, communists and environmentalists agreed in particular to promise retirement at the age of 60 (with forty annuities), the 32-hour week for “hard” jobs, the sixth week of paid leave: an XXL “whatever it costs”. But on thirty-tr…
De Gaulle – Think, resist, govern
His name became synonymous with a free and powerful France. De Gaulle, the man of the call of June 18, has established himself in history first as a rebel, a resistance fighter and then as a charismatic political leader, in France and abroad. Adored, hated during the time of his presidency, after his death he became a myth, an ideal of a politician that both on the right and on the left we find ourselves regretting.
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