in case of censorship, the big blur on the left

On the left, some are seriously considering reviewing their plans for the end-of-year holidays. Within the New Popular Front, the four parties take very seriously the recent threats from Marine Le Pen, who no longer excludes pressing the censorship button to overthrow Michel Barnier at the end of the debates on the budget. « The government will fall between the 15th and 21st December »Jean-Luc Mélenchon even predicted, last Sunday on France 3. « It's going to be the magic of Christmas »quips a socialist deputy again.

Unless this scenario – which at first glance looks like good news for the coalition – turns into a trap. Confined to systematic opposition since it failed to impose its candidate, Lucie Castets, in Matignon last summer, the NFP fears not being able to preserve its unity tomorrow.

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