Guest of RTL this Friday morning, Olivier Faure warned that if the 2027 budget project remained unchanged, censorship would be “a form of evidence for me”. The first secretary of the PS considers the text “very frustrating”, particularly with regard to those who are “called upon to contribute to this reduction in the deficit”.
Asked about the new revelations from Mediapart attributing anti-Semitic writings to Jordan Bardella, Olivier Faure said he was “absolutely” convinced by the media’s demonstration. He accused the RN of being “a xenophobic, racist, anti-Semitic party” and considered that Jordan Bardella could no longer, according to him, claim to be Matignon. “We have a double subject here: his anti-Semitism and lying in politics, both of which cannot be forgiven,” he declared.
The day after the presentation of the government's finance bill (PLF), Roland Lescure recalled the importance of the proper distribution of savings from the youngest to retirees, demanding “fair efforts from everyone, including retirees who can do it”. And to warn that “if no one makes an effort, we will go straight into the wall”. The Minister of Economy and Finance says that a budget must be adopted so that “rates fall”.
“Yesterday, we issued 12 billion euros on the markets, it went like a letter in the post, we issue very well but at very high rates. This is why we need to adopt a budget, so that rates go down. Because high rates are our overdrafts, our property loans, and obviously my loans which are going up, and that must be avoided,” he spoke on TF1.
In countries “which have not made these efforts”, including Greece, Italy and Spain, “pensions have fallen”, points out the minister, explaining “want to avoid” this in France.
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“It is almost established” that Jordan Bardella made remarks “of a manifestly and scandalously anti-Semitic nature,” said Édouard Philippe on Thursday after a new article from Mediapart on the president of the RN.
“It will be up to him and the political group of which he is a part to draw the consequences,” added the Horizons candidate in the presidential election, adding: “with the extremes, when you chase the natural, it always ends up galloping back.”
The investigative media Mediapart published on Thursday elements of authentication, via Facebook's parent company, Meta, and a bailiff, of anti-Semitic messages dating from 2013 attributed to the president of the RN Jordan Bardella, of which the latter again denied being the author.
Olivier Faure, Raphaël Glucksmann, Ségolène Royal, Jérôme Guedj and Emmanuel Maurel faced each other this Thursday evening on France 2, eight days before the first round of the internal ballot.
It was undoubtedly the most anticipated moment of this short month of campaigning: a big debate, in due form, between the five contenders in the primary, each seated behind desks. After a first warm-up round last week on LCI, Raphaël Glucksmann, Olivier Faure, Ségolène Royal, Jérôme Guedj and Emmanuel Maurel met this Thursday evening for a second round on France 2. Le Figaro looks back at the main points to remember from this second confrontation, eight days before the first round.
WHAT TO REMEMBER
National Rally candidate Marine Le Pen will propose to the French, if she is elected president, to adopt a “budgetary golden rule” by referendum, with the long-term objective of reducing France's public debt to 60% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), she announced on Thursday.
In a column in the newspaper L'Opinion, the leader of the RN sets three objectives for this system: "set in stone the most powerful restoration of accounts since General de Gaulle with the Pinay-Rueff plan of 1958, restore the confidence of the French in themselves and thus anchor this same confidence in the expectations of international investors, our foreign partners and French economic players."
“The destiny of France is not to rest on the fact that it is “too big to fall”, nor to accept that the noose of debt is strangling us,” she writes, recalling that the value of 60% of GDP for debt is that which is enshrined in the European treaties. The debt today reaches 119% of national wealth.
Marine Le Pen recognizes that the “political tradition” of the RN was until now “averse to any form of budgetary golden rule” but she justifies her change of footing by her desire to put an end to “the decline” and to avoid “the placing under supervision of France”. “What an irony that a party that has been so defamed is today the only one capable of cleaning out the “Augian stables” of the system that fought against us,” says the leader of the far-right party.
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