Direct Presidential 2027: Olivier Faure criticizes the budget, Marine Le Pen at a meeting in Hénin-Beaumont

The first secretary of the PS and candidate in the socialist primary believes, on Sunday, that the planned efforts are not “fair”.

The presidential campaign is getting underway. Olivier Faure, candidate in the socialist primary, strongly criticized, on Sunday September 13, the government's proposals for the 2027 budget. While the Minister of the Economy, Roland Lescure, considers it "useful and fair that retirees also contribute to collective efforts", the first secretary of the PS sees "racketeering" in their contributions. He said on BFMTV that it was “not fair” to target retirees.

Marine Le Pen is due to deliver a speech on Sunday afternoon in her stronghold of Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais). For the National Rally candidate, leading in the polls, this will be the first real speech in a campaign disrupted by controversies and signs of tension with her number 2 Jordan Bardella.

Marine Le Pen on the social aspect. The RN candidate must speak on Sunday around 2:30 p.m.-3 p.m., after a weekend of work behind closed doors with the parliamentarians of her party in Le Touquet.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon pleads for price blocking. At the Fête de l'Humanité, the rebellious candidate gave a speech on Saturday focused on debt and purchasing power, for almost 1h30.

Bruno Retailleau accuses the RN "which claimed to be Joan of Arc of having sold itself to the English". The LR presidential candidate launched this accusation on Saturday, after the symbolic memorandum of understanding signed by its president Jordan Bardella with his anti-European ally Nigel Farage.

A Russian drone struck a train bound for Warsaw this morning in Ukraine, without causing any casualties. “A systemic attack on rail is underway across the country,” warns Ukrainian Railways, Ukrzaliznytsia.

The judicial police are working to try to find out what happened during the derailment of a TER in Normandy, said Laurent Nuñez on France 2 this afternoon. “At this stage, no avenue is favored, but no avenue is ruled out,” he specifies.

Les Bleues du basketball face the United States this evening, in the World Cup final. They lost the final of the 2024 Olympics, against the Americans.

The coordinator of France Insoumise, Manuel Bompard, questions the Minister of the Interior on his statement, when the member of the government affirmed that there was "no racism in the police" but only "isolated cases". Laurent Nuñez responds: “There is sometimes racist behavior, in the police and the gendarmerie, they are in the very minority”.

After the suspension of Carcassonne municipal police officers accused of having made racist and misogynistic remarks, the Minister of the Interior requested the opening of an investigation by the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN).