The head of the MoDem deputies, Marc Fesneau, refused on Wednesday that the dates of the 2027 presidential election be changed, as requested by the right and far right, because according to him this would be “proving the thugs right” and “giving up” in the face of them. “We are in the process of adopting the principle that May 1st by nature will be disastrous and that there will be violence,” said the centrist leader on Public Senate. The official dates for the presidential election were set by the Council of Ministers from July 1 to April 18 and May 2, 2027, with a second round the day after the traditional May 1 parades, which are often very political.
“In a democracy, to say that we must choose elections according to the thugs, recognizing the fact that we would let the thugs do their thing and therefore giving up, I find it quite curious,” argued Marc Fesneau. “Perhaps we should ask the Black Blocs and the looters also the dates that suit them?”, he said again. Spearheading the fight to bring forward the dates of the presidential election by one week, which would then be held on April 11 and 25, LR candidate Bruno Retailleau repeated Wednesday on Europe1/CNews his fear that on May 1, “what happened on October 17 will happen.”
Guest of Europe 1/CNEWS, Les Républicains (LR) candidate, Bruno Retailleau, continues to call for a change in the dates of the presidential election, which will take place on April 18 and May 2. “You realize if on May 1, what happened on October 17 happens,” he warns. And claims that “left-wing candidates will appear” on Saturday May 1 in demonstration the day after the end of the campaign. “There is a problem of legality,” he still assures. “If you do not change these dates, I will see an ulterior motive,” he again addresses the President of the Republic.
Guest of BFMTV this Wednesday morning, Guillaume Guérin, the LR-Nouvelle Énergie mayor of Limoges, returned to the fire in his town hall on October 17. “When we destroy a town hall, we are not destroying the house of a CAC 40 entrepreneur, we are destroying the people’s house,” he says, still angry. The first elements of the investigation highlighted the involvement of a “radical ultra-left” in the face of which the municipal police officers “saw themselves dying”. “We saw hooded, equipped activists who acted in a very methodical way. There were young people shouting ACAB and others who had come to burn down the town hall.”
“There was a failure on the part of the State,” he insists, referring to the lack of equipment of the national police officers, who no longer had ammunition by mid-afternoon. If justice is going to be concerned with this case, Guillaume Guérin hopes “that it will be up to the task” and “relentless”. He would like the charge of “attempted homicide” to be retained.
In the Hemicycle, yesterday, the National Assembly observed a minute of silence after the racist terrorist attack in Trappes and La Verrière in Yvelines, causing the death of a man, Pengo Bossio Wangi, and five injured. The tribute was marked by several altercations between the deputies, leading to the temporary departure of certain left-wing parliamentarians. The Les Républicains (LR) candidate, Bruno Retailleau, who calls for “condemning this crime with the greatest firmness”, accuses La France Insoumise (LFI) of “instrumentalization” as well as “misting a climate of violence”. An “undemocratic” party and elected officials who are “not republican”, he insists.
In the Assembly, the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, also spoke of the death of the identity activist, Quentin Deranque, after a clash with members of the “Young Guard” last February. “There is a victim and the guilty are transformed into victims,” argues Bruno Retailleau, accusing the party of “inversion of values”. And denounces the existence of “a red privilege”.
While a new Saturday of mobilization is expected this weekend, the LFI deputy, Éric Coquerel, called “to support the mobilization”. He nevertheless stressed that it was not up to his party to decide whether the movement should continue, but to the high school students themselves. This did not prevent him from giving his opinion in one sentence: “what we are offering them is far too weak,” he said, reacting to the government’s announcements.
His party is more concerned by the day of strike and mobilization organized by the inter-union. “We especially look at November 5,” pointed out Éric Coquerel.
“Work must resume on Monday,” urged the Minister of National Education, Édouard Geffray, yesterday, after more than a month of high school demonstrations. “It is not up to the minister to decide, we are not decreeing the end of social mobilization,” retorted the president of the La France Insoumise (LFI) group in the Assembly, Mathilde Panot, on TF1. The elected official assures that the Insoumis will once again be alongside the demonstrators during the next mobilizations planned for this Saturday, or even on November 5 at the call of several unions.
And deeming this movement “magnificent”. If the Insoumis party proposes as a remedy the repeal of Parcoursup and the opening of 250,000 places in higher education, the parliamentarian recognizes, in the event of coming to power, “we may not have them immediately”. Last night, the “thugs pay” bill was adopted in the Senate, aiming, among other things, to make the families of thugs pay. L’Insoumise ironically says: “this law should be renamed”, assuring that it is a “serious attack on the right to demonstrate”.
Furious, not to say ulcerated. Marine Le Pen's six lawyers, including Rodolphe Bosselut, François Henri Briard, Stéphane Bonichot and David Dassa-Le-Deist, have just filed a complaint before the Superior Council of the Judiciary against honorary magistrate Didier Guérin, former president of the Criminal Court of the Court of Cassation between 2014 and 2017.
In the October 2026 issue of the journal “Droit Pénal”, he states that in the current state of the case law of the Court of Cassation, “the provisional execution of the 5 years of ineligibility pronounced by the Paris criminal court continues during the cassation procedure and that as it stands, the plaintiff remains ineligible”. And this despite the appeal ruling of July 7 which reduced the ineligibility sentence to 45 months, 30 of which were suspended. The fifteen months had already been served at the time of this decision.
Liberal presidential candidate David Lisnard on Tuesday called on former LR president Éric Ciotti to “separate” from his RN allies and join him, believing that the pension reform promised by Marine Le Pen does not correspond to the ideas defended by the mayor of Nice. “The UDR program is very close to what I say, but very far from the National Rally,” said the mayor of Cannes on CNews.
“Explain to me how we are going to revive prosperity in France and reduce spending with retirement as proposed by the RN”, which recommends lowering the retirement age to 62, or even 60, explained David Lisnard, pointing out the differences between the economic program of Marine Le Pen and that of the mayor of Nice.
“I therefore call on Éric Ciotti to join me, to separate from the RN”, affirmed David Lisnard who also mentioned “the recent small upheaval concerning the RN on anti-Semitism”. David Lisnard has seen an improvement in the polls in recent weeks, both in terms of notoriety and voting intentions.
Hello and welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the presidential election. Six months before the first round, high school and social anger is shaking up the campaign. In the columns of Le Figaro, the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet calls for a single candidacy from the right and the center, evoking in particular the President of the Senate Gérard Larcher.
For his part, the liberal candidate and mayor of Cannes David Lisnard calls on Éric Ciotti to separate from Marine Le Pen and join him. Marine Le Pen, finally, protested through her lawyers after a former magistrate declared that she could not run in the presidential election. Find all the news related to the campaign here.
