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10:30 a.m. : “The text is in no way an agreement. It promotes convergences, without hiding our differences, particularly on the European question.”
The Socialist Party reacts, after some media announced that the party leadership subscribed to the proposals of La France insoumise for the legislative elections. This announcement provoked strong reactions from socialist executives on social networks.
10:08 : Which MPs will be reappointed? Under what label? By what process? The majority is dependent on the goodwill of Emmanuel Macron, who must personally get involved in the strategy and the choice of candidates for the ballot on June 12 and 19. Margaux Duguet tells you about the uncertainty that grips the majority. (PIERRE-ALBERT JOSSERAND / FRANCEINFO)
09:44 : I call on socialist activists who want internal democracy, not in favor of this surrender in the open countryside of the current leadership of the @partisocialiste not to leave your party! The Socialist Party belongs to its militants! #ChangerPS https://t.co/8vvtmX8cHu
09:44 : No instance of the @partisocialiste having adopted the text sent by the current management to #LFI, I am neither committed nor bound by this approach. Internal debate and democracy are our DNA, only voting allows us to adopt political positions or alliances.
09:52 : “No body of the Socialist Party having adopted the text sent by the current management to LFI, I am neither committed nor bound by this approach”writes Rachid Temal, PS senator from Val-d’Oise, on Twitter. “Only the vote makes it possible to adopt political positions or alliances.”
09:41 : The strategy of unity on the left does not convince everyone in the PS. Carole Delga, the president of the Occitanie region, publicly announced her candidacy for the legislative elections yesterday, reports France 3, while her party is still negotiating an agreement with La France insoumise. “I can’t endorse a union by default”she justified.
09:33 : The re-election of Emmanuel Macron justifies, for some activists, a “rise in power” mobilization for the environment. Far from political parties, they choose blockades, demonstrations and legal proceedings. “It’s stronger than the vote”assures an ecological farmer to franceinfo.
10:14 a.m. : It’s past 9 o’clock, we take stock:
The leadership of the Socialist Party recognizes in a letter to La France insoumise “convergences” with his program. For his part, Julien Bayou, national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, says he has “good hope” that the negotiations are concluded in the hours to come. Follow our live.
The French economy at a standstill. Growth was zero in the first quarter (0%), while inflation continued to rise, to 4.8% over one year.
Several strikes hit buildings in kyiv yesterday, while the UN Secretary General was visiting the Ukrainian capital. Here is what we know about this new bombardment.
#ISRAEL_PALESTINE Clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police left 42 injured on the esplanade of the Mosques in Jerusalem.
08:31 : For his part, Julien Bayou, national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts, says on France 2 to have “good hope” that the negotiations with La France insoumise succeed in the hours to come.
09:13 : A further step towards an agreement. The leadership of the Socialist Party recognizes in a letter to La France insoumise “convergences” with its program, after 48 hours of negotiation.
07:24 : Will go, won’t go? Left-wing voters are holding their breath to find out if La France insoumise, the French Communist Party, the New Anti-Capitalist Party and Europe Ecologie-Les Verts will find an agreement for the legislative elections. The first discussions between the socialists and the “rebellious” were “positive”according to them, but the PCF estimated yesterday that the negotiations “trampled”.
07:29 : Hello @Florencearticle 23 of the Constitution prohibits members of the government from exercising “any parliamentary mandate“. A minister who would be elected deputy after the resignation of the Castex government, and who would again be called upon to exercise a ministerial mandate in the next government, would therefore leave his place in the National Assembly to his or her substitute for the time to exercise his ministry. (without accumulation of remuneration).
06:22 : Hello, small question following your article on the former ministers who stand for legislative elections. If they are elected deputies, can they become minister again? Do they resign or combine the two salaries?
07:29 : Emmanuel Macron continues his field trips. He went to Barbazan-Debat, a rural village in the Hautes-Pyrénées with 3,400 inhabitants. Goal : “discussing issues” of this territory, before participating “at a lunch with residents, local elected officials and members of the municipal council”according to the Elysee.
07:30 : Here are the main news headlines:
Several strikes hit buildings in kyiv yesterday, while the UN Secretary General was visiting the Ukrainian capital. Antonio Guterres says to himself “shocked” but “safe”.
• Eric Dupond-Moretti in the North, Elisabeth Borne in Calvados, Jean-Michel Blanquer in Loiret… Government ministers are embarking on the legislative campaign. Here is our recap.
• A new woman has filed a rape complaint against former TF1 news presenter Patrick Poivre d’Arvor. The latter himself announced that he was suing 16 of the 20 women who testified against him for defamation.
Infuriating defeat for OM on the Feyenoord pitch last night. A 3-2 loss caused by an ill-adjusted back pass from Croatian defender Duje Caleta-Car. We will have to do better at the Vélodrome in a week.