“A National Rally deputy is worth any other deputy and vice versa”estimated the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, on the LCI set, Sunday September 29. “Why did almost eleven million French people vote for the RN? Quite simply, because we ourselves have not provided sufficient answers in the past. They must weigh what any citizen weighs”he justified. Follow our live stream.
Gérald Darmanin will not support a tax increase. “This would be contrary to everything positive we have done for the French. (…) The money of the wealthiest must go into job creation, not into public coffers”insisted the former Minister of the Interior, who organized his political comeback in Tourcoing (North) on Sunday. He spoke in particular in front of former Prime Ministers Edouard Philippe and Elisabeth Borne. The new Prime Minister Michel Barnier, whose government Gérald Darmanin has assured to support, has not ruled out an increase in taxation as part of the 2025 budget.
Manuel Bompard opposes a left-wing primary for the presidential election. “The primaries create divisions, they create cleavages and the day after the primary, you have the opponents of the candidate who was finally nominated, who will support another candidate,” judged the coordinator of La France insoumise on France Inter and franceinfo. The boss of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, for his part pleaded for “a common candidate of the left and environmentalists”which could be chosen via “a primary, a council of wise men, a citizens’ convention, a mixture of several processes”in an interview with West France SATURDAY.
The MoDem reaffirms its support for proportional representation. The party will not accept “the announced renunciation” to the establishment of this voting method in the legislative elections, warned Marc Fesneau, the president of the MoDem group in the National Assembly, during the party’s back-to-school university in Guidel (Morbihan), Sunday. “It is not only a question of MoDem’s favorite thing, but a question, I say this with seriousness, of the survival of our democracy”judged the former Minister of Agriculture.
Macronist deputies oppose a tax increase. “It seems to us (…) unthinkable that after seven years of tax cuts, it is the central bloc alliance that ends up giving up fiscal stability to increase them”write two elected officials from the presidential party in a text signed by 27 members of the Ensemble pour la République group, including former ministers Aurore Bergé and Marie Lebec, and published by The Tribune. CThe elected officials judge that “restoring accounts requires above all a reduction in public spending.”
Nathalie Delattre becomes president of the Radical Party. The new Minister of Relations with Parliament replaces Laurent Hénart, who has chaired the movement since 2014. Nathalie Delattre “is in a position to carry the values of the Radical Party which she knows well to be its general secretary”judges the former mayor of Nancy.