“Our program is realistic, costed and economically serious”, assures LFI MEP Manon Aubry in a blog note. While the New Popular Front program is accused by the executive of being expensive, the left alliance will try to counter the criticism. Friday June 21 from noon, the New Popular Front gives a press conference dedicated to “costing and financing” of its measurements. As of Thursday evening, the leader of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, estimated in an interview with Figaro that it would cost France 200 billion euros over five years, while making it possible to bring in 230 billion thanks to a “boost to activity”. Follow our live stream.
Grand oral in front of the bosses. The representatives of the main parties in the legislative race held their grand oral presentation in front of the bosses on Thursday. The socialist Boris Vallaud proposed a “new productive pact”uniting workers, captains of industry and consumers, and called on billionaires to “an effort of economic patriotism”. This high mass was also the opportunity for Jordan Bardella and Eric Ciotti to appear side by side for the first time since the surprise announcement of their alliance.
Edouard Philippe lets his disagreement be understood. Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said Thursday that Emmanuel Macron had “killed the presidential majority” by deciding to dissolve the National Assembly and that it would therefore be necessary “create a new majority”. “I prefer to concentrate on telling the French that they are not prisoners of a choice between the extremes. And that there is an alternative which is not the reproduction of what existed”added the boss of the Horizons party, ally of the head of state.
Investigation after taking on an RN candidate. An investigation into “meeting violence” was opened Thursday in Saint-Etienne, according to the city’s prosecutor’s office, after a “hustle” during which Hervé Breuil, RN candidate in the legislative elections, claimed to have been attacked. “A stampede, insults and splashes of water and flour” took place around 11:30 a.m. on a market near the Labor Exchange, said the prosecution, adding that the investigation was opened by the police.
