Pressure on Macron, LFI attacks pension reform and bad luck for Mbappé

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Both at Matignon and at the Élysée, things are currently rocking hard for the executive. If Michel Barnier is on reprieve with the risk of a motion of censure, Emmanuel Macron is also under pressure. New voices were added on Wednesday to strongly criticize the president. The general rapporteur of the budget to the National Assembly, the centrist Charles de Courson, and the LR mayor of Meaux Jean-François Copé both pleaded for his resignation. For them, a departure of the current head of state would constitute a solution to emerge from the crisis caused by the dissolution. Charles de Courson, MP from the Liot group, believes that “the problem is the political chaos unleashed by the President of the Republic”. According to him, whoever the Prime Minister is appointed “he will not have a majority. The only solution would be a resignation of the president.” And a hard blow for the head of state: public opinion also seems to share this opinion. According to an Elabe poll for BFMTV, a large majority of French people (63%) believe that he would have to resign if the government was censored.

In a particularly fragmented chamber, will part of the National Assembly succeed in uniting to put an end to the highly contested pension reform? The left, supported by the RN, will in any case try this Thursday to repeal the 2023 text. A bill presented by France Insoumise – as part of the annual parliamentary day reserved for its texts – provides for this to reduce the legal retirement age from 64 to 62. However, the game is far from won. The right and the Macronists have in fact tabled hundreds of amendments to try to prevent a vote on this text before midnight, the deadline for the LFI “niche”.

Kylian Mbappé once again experienced a football evening to forget on Wednesday. And this is starting to look very bad in his new club, especially since it falls during the premier competition for a club: the Champions League. Liverpool inflicted their third defeat of the season on Real Madrid in five C1 days (2-0). Expected at the turning point, especially in the absence of the injured Vinicius, Kylian Mbappé therefore delivered a very poor performance at Anfield, being muzzled from start to finish by his compatriot Ibrahima Konaté but especially by the little-known Northern Irish side of the Reds Conor Bradley . After this problematic defeat, the captain of the Blues was both mocked for his missed penalty, at 1-0 in the 61st minute of play, and for a strange fall in the first period that went viral on social networks.