It’s a real group offensive: the socialist president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga last weekend, another socialist, the mayor of Saint-Ouen in the Paris region, Karim Bouamrane launching his movement Thursday evening, and then the MEP Place Publique , Raphaël Glucksmann who brings together his troops today and tomorrow at La Réole in Gironde. What all three of them have in common: a frontal anti-Mélenchonism and a common desire, all even supporting each other, to bring about a socio-democratic alternative against the left-wing hegemony of La France Insoumise. For Raphaël Glucksmann, who won nearly 14% in the European elections, this is an opportunity to prepare his support for a potential dissolution next June while waiting for the next presidential election.
The boss of the PS, Olivier Faure, will not be present at Raphaël Glucksmann’s meeting. The two men are divided on the strategy of the New Popular Front, Faure being faithful for the moment to the union of all the lefts, LFI included. A union that even the dissidents of the Mélenchonist party support, those who were purged during the last legislative elections: Alexis Corbières, Danielle Simonnet, Hendrik Davy, Clémentine Autain and Raquel Garrido. Their association, called L’After, is organizing its first general assembly in Paris today, and for Clémentine Autain, the currents of the left must not be divided.
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Which Prime Minister will Michel Barnier be in the face of popular mobilizations and environmental activists, he who says he wants to make the “reduction of the ecological debt” a “requirement”. The head of government will have many opportunities to position himself, starting today with the defense of the forests in Creuse. Activists from all over France are meeting this Saturday in Guéret to oppose the Biosyl project, a mega-wood factory for the manufacture of pellets. They fear a seizure of forests by Biosyl and the forestry cooperative Unisylva, which they deny.
Hezbollah claims to have made Israeli forces “retreat” in southern Lebanon, near the border while they attempted a ground advance. At the same time, the southern suburbs of Beirut were hit by explosions, particularly near the airport. Neighborhoods where the Israeli army has called on civilians to flee but it is far from simple, especially for foreigners. More than 20,000 French and Franco-Lebanese, for example, live in Lebanon and some of them are now seeking to return to France by plane, frightened by the war with Israel. Except that to date, Paris has not yet decided to implement evacuations.
French bistros could soon find themselves listed as UNESCO world heritage sites. A fight led by Parisian restaurateur Alain Fontaine, now that “social and cultural practices in Bistros and Cafés” have been officially listed as intangible cultural heritage in France since last month. For him, the file must now be taken to UNESCO because the place and the social practices that go with it are threatened.
