Raphaël Glucksmann fears that, on Sunday evening, “the whole country will have a hangover”

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“And everyone hates fascists!”: nearly 2,000 demonstrators, according to the prefecture, marched against the far right in Lyon on Friday evening, while the first round of early legislative elections will be held on Sunday.

“If we want to avoid finding ourselves in a climate of hatred, even fear, we must vote at all costs on Sunday and July 7,” Amandine, a 23-year-old student, told AFP. She did not want to give her last name and fears the RN will come to power.

Responding to the call of left-wing parties and unions as well as far-left groups, the demonstrators first gathered at 7:00 p.m. in the city center, on Place des Terreaux, before going to Place Bellecour along the banks of the Saône, noted an AFP journalist.

“Let us not let the demons of irrational hatred divide us,” urged the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, Chems-eddine Hafiz, this Friday, two days before the first round of early legislative elections in which, according to the polls, the RN is expected to be in the lead.

“As rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, a place where many Jews were saved during the Second World War, I address my fellow Jews, my friends, my neighbors and beyond: the enemy is not the Muslim,” wrote the rector in a statement published on the Grand Mosque’s website.

“Islam is not your enemy. History testifies that, for centuries, the people of the Book found refuge and consideration in Muslim empires,” he continues, while several polls predict a comfortable lead for the National Rally.

The Paris Stock Exchange fell by 6.42% in June, its worst performance since June 2022, undermined by the dissolution of the National Assembly and the uncertainty surrounding the next French legislature. Friday, two days before the first round of legislative elections in France, the flagship CAC 40 index closed with a loss of 0.68%, finishing at 7,479.40 points, its lowest level since January 25.

The gap between the interest rate on France’s ten-year bond and that of Germany, the benchmark in Europe, is also the largest since 2012.

This Friday, as since the announcement of the dissolution of the Assembly on June 9, investors were especially keen to limit their exposure to investments that they perceive as the riskiest, whether they be shares or French debt, explained Marine Mazet, bond analyst at Nomura.

At a meeting in Rouen, the leader of the PS/Place Publique in the European elections, Raphaël Glucksmann, expressed his concern about “this impression that a wave is forming and that, on Sunday evening, the whole country will have a hangover”.

“There are days that are coming that are fundamental,” he continued, looking ahead to the postponements of votes at the end of the first round.

Philippe Grangeon, former advisor to Emmanuel Macron and former boss of En Marche, alerted his camp on Friday against “the perilous temptation of neither RN nor LFI”, pleading for “clear instructions” on the evening of the first round of legislative elections in favor of all “the candidates who will oppose” the RN.

“I want to alert my political family against the perilous temptation of “neither-nor” (neither RN nor LFI). This ambiguous political choice could in fact, in the current dynamic, favor the accession of the National Rally to power,” writes Philippe Grangeon in a column addressed to . For this co-founder of En Marche, from social democracy, “placing the extreme right and La France insoumise, which is only part of the New Popular Front coalition, on an equal footing, is dangerous “.

Another historic marcher joined Philippe Grangeon’s position on Friday: “I cannot be satisfied with a nuanced response, the “neither-nor”, to a situation that is without nuance,” wrote the president of the SOS group Jean-Marc Borello on Linkedin. “Whatever it costs us, and whatever the alternative, let’s vote against the extreme right,” he hammered home.

“This statement is not admissible, because he is an elected representative of the National Rally, and giving his personal opinion while knowing full well that it is not the project of the National Rally, I consider that it is a serious mistake », declared Marine Le Pen on BFMTV.

Roger Chudeau, outgoing MP for the National Rally and candidate for re-election in Loir-et-Cher, said on BFMTV that “ministerial positions should be held by Franco-French people”, specifying that the appointment of Franco-Moroccan Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Minister of National Education between 2014 and 2017, was “a mistake”. On France Info, the former minister reacted strongly this Friday afternoon: “This is an unbearable trial of disloyalty that is being made against me and, behind me, against millions of French people.”

La France insoumise took proceedings this Friday after the launch by Renaissance of a retirement simulator supposedly built on the program of the New Popular Front, but “false”, according to LFI.

“We are taking action before the judicial judge on the basis of article L163-2 of the electoral code due to false and misleading allegations likely to alter the vote,” the movement specified.

As voters and other far-right activists galvanize themselves by spreading their ideas through TikTok lives, other activists are infiltrating it to try to deconstruct their narratives.

We explain it all to you here…

When Félix-Antoine Hamel ran in a federal by-election in Quebec last weekend, he did not count on being elected. But he didn’t expect that his very poor score would make him a kind of curiosity.

As reported by Montreal Journalhe is the only candidate in an election in Quebec to have received no votes, zero, nada. Not even his own, in fact, since the latter was unable to vote for him since he does not live in the area where he ran.

“When I saw the result, I told myself that I was the real candidate for unity: everyone agrees not to vote for me,” declared Félix-Antoine Hamel, a good sport.

The New Popular Front took legal action for disclosing false information after Gabriel Attal’s announcement, during Thursday’s televised debate, of the putting online of a site allowing one to “see the impact of the progressive CSG of Nupes on his retirement.

This site is “maretraitenupes.fr”, and we explain to you what is behind this simulator.

Already well established among the most modest public officials, the far-right parties are now in the process of winning over the vote of civil service executives, analyzes Cevipof researcher Luc Rouban in an interview with AFP.

In the last European elections, 21% of category A agents (that of executives) slipped an RN ballot into the ballot box and 8% a Reconquest ballot, according to a note published this week by this civil service specialist.

The far-right vote among public sector executives is lower than the national average (31.4% for the RN and 5.5% for Reconquête), but is growing rapidly.

Civil service management personnel were still only 12% choosing candidates classified as “radical right” (Marine Le Pen, Jacques Cheminade, François Asselineau, Eric Zemmour or Nicolas Dupont-Aignan) in the first round of the 2017 presidential election, and 20% in 2022.

Will the New Popular Front increase taxes for employees earning 2,200 euros or more per month, as Prime Minister Gabriel Attal claimed?

Don’t panic, we explain it all to you in this article by our journalist, Emilie Jehanno.

In the Nantes metropolitan area, small posters in the colors of Naolib, the public transport network, have been put up with this message: “From June 30, 2024, the risk is fascism. Let’s take the right bus! »

Using Naolib’s graphic charter and logo, it looks very much like an official campaign. Except no. “We obviously want to clarify that Semitan is not the origin of these communications and that we are working to have them removed as quickly as possible,” reacted the carrier on X.

Discount vouchers, shopping vouchers, a quarter of an hour of free cycling… Among all the initiatives launched in recent days to encourage the French to travel en masse to vote in the legislative elections, there is one from a Nice boss who will make people jealous.

The manager of the Courbaisse Transports company has decided to grant a bonus of 50 euros to his employees on condition that they present their voter card bearing the stamps of the two rounds. No voting instructions from the boss, it works even for a blank or invalid vote. The only imperative thing is to go.

Châtelaudren and Plouagat, in Côtes-d’Armor, have decided to merge to make their lives easier. Except that this is not true for everything. On Sunday, the 4,000 inhabitants of the unified commune of Châtelaudren-Plouagat will vote for two different deputies.

20 Minutes explains this administrative imbroglio to you in an article by our journalist Jérôme Gicquel.

In a sequence from the show “Envoye spécial”, Divine Kinkela, a healthcare assistant, recounted her daily experience of racist insults received from neighbors galvanized by the rise of the RN.

Quite logically, a wave of indignation followed the broadcast of the program and Divine received numerous support from left-wing personalities, including Yan Brossat, PCF senator, and Najat Vallaud-Belkacem.

But the matter will go further. The Montargis group took charge of the “discriminatory comments” and the tenor of the bar, Frank Berton, announced that two complaints had been filed this Friday by “the defense of Divine Kinkela”. And the couple’s wife, an official at the Montargis court, was suspended from her duties.

The clear favourite, the National Rally has a strong chance, if the polls are confirmed at the ballot box, of seeing its public funding double from 10 to 20 million euros per year, to the detriment of the outgoing Macronist majority.

The announced victory of the far right could in fact result in a significant increase in public aid paid to the RN, as provided for in the 1988 law on the transparency of political life.

The parties, which also receive donations and contributions, currently share 66 million euros per year, paid by the State according to the results of the latest legislative elections.

It’s the race to send electoral propaganda for Sunday’s vote. So much so that many have still not received it. In Maine-et-Loire, for example, the prefect delays and writes: “Voters who have not received their electoral envelopes are invited to check their mailbox until the last delivery on Saturday June 29 afternoon . »