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Would Jean-Luc Mélenchon definitely be persona non grata on the left, excluding La France insoumise (LFI)? This is the impression that Olivier Faure gives this morning on Sud Radio. The head of the Socialist Party announced that a gathering of the left will be the subject of discussions after the European elections. But the leader of LFI will be excluded. “It’s absolutely clear, there is no possibility today of finding someone who calls Jérôme Guedj an informer,” he says, referring to the numerous disagreements between the two men in recent days. “He flirts with the yellow lines. He always beats around the bush. He qualifies people [ici Jérôme Guedj] speaking of his Judaism, […] suggesting that he himself would be hostage of a community, the Jewish community… All of this is unworthy,” Faure reacted again, marking a definitive break with his former late ally Nupes. On the question of union on the left, the boss of the roses therefore places the blame on the rebellious: “I believe that Mélenchon is doing everything to make an alliance with each other impossible. He is the one who sets fire to the plain every morning. […] However, I don’t believe in irreconcilable lefts.” If the left are not irreconcilable, Faure and Mélenchon seem to have become so.
Spotlight
Of Legends Office to a real investigation into the legalization of cannabis, there was only one step for Mathieu Kassovitz. His new documentary, released on April 2, will be screened at the Assembly on June 12, at the suggestion of LFI deputy Christophe Bex, reveals RMC. The actor and director investigated for a year in ten different countries to compare the successes and failures of the legalization of this drug, as well as the consequences of its consumption. The screening of the documentary in the presence of deputies will be followed by a debate, while this subject, generally supported by the left, divides the macronie.
Difficult tomorrows
Is that a good situation, ministerial advisor to the Attal government? Not really, if we are to believe the departures and testimonies which have multiplied in the offices of Prisca Thévenot, Aurore Bergé, and even Sarah El Haïry. Cases of management that we would describe as not very healthy, to which is added that of the Secretary of State for the Sea, Hervé Berville. According to a survey of Marianne, his taste for long nights of fiesta would put his teams in difficulty, forced to manage a schedule constantly disrupted by his alarm failures and his unexplained disappearances in the morning. Numerous testimonies describe embarrassing moments when his office has to manage planned meetings independently, without any news from their minister, and therefore struggling to justify his absence. Added to a certain dose of reproaches from the person concerned towards his colleagues, the weekly describes a team on the verge of a nervous breakdown. And ashamed of such a casual attitude on the part of their boss.
March or strike
After the offensive by the senatorial right against the right to strike, the presidential majority is taking action in the Assembly. With the chairman of the Assembly’s sustainable development committee, Jean-Marc Zulesi, at the helm. The Macronist MP thus tabled a bill to regulate the right to strike in public transport, reports the Parisian. But the daily specifies that “the proposal did not pass executive arbitration”. No time to alienate the unions as the Olympic Games approach. Zulesi explains that his text was very different from that of the Senate which wanted to prevent strikes at certain times of the year and which, according to him, “does not hold” : “With all respect for the Senate, my bill respects the Constitution.” He wants “fight against certain practices which circumvent or abuse the freedoms given by the right to strike”while saying to himself “attached to this right”. The subject divides the majority and even the government where the Minister for Relations with Parliament from the right, Marie Lebec, diverges from the Minister of Transport from the left, Patrice Vergriete.
Hazing
The Molières 2024 (dedicated to the memory of Bernard Pivot) honored Francis Huster and even a play talking about Iranian exiles, last night, during a ceremony marked by several political positions, notably against the cuts budgetary. Rachida Dati, who this time did not skip the event, even if it meant missing the state dinner for Xi Jinping at the Elysée, particularly took it for granted. “Thank you to everyone except Madam Minister!” thus launched the mistress of ceremonies, the comedian Caroline Vigneaux, whose energy made it possible to fight against the few lengths. “You get us back the 204 million euros [en moins sur le budget de la culture, ndlr], you don’t touch intermittency. And we’ll release you in time for Paris City Hall!” she joked again. Present in the Folies Bergère hall, Dati did not speak, but posted a video at the start of the evening in which she assured that “the regime of intermittency must be preserved”.
Six
Bioethics topics often transcend partisan divisions. And the left is no exception. Le Figaro reports the existence of a small group of six deputies opposed to the end-of-life bill, who organized a meeting on the subject on April 9. There are three left-wing Catholics there: the socialist Dominique Potier, the communist Pierre Dharréville and the ecologist Lisa Belluco. But also elected officials without a claimed faith like the communists André Chassaigne and Soumya Bourouaha, and the socialist Cécile Untermaier. Their opposition to the law is essentially based on criticism of a concept considered too liberal, and the fear that poor people will shorten their lives so as not to burden their loved ones with the cost of certain care or a place in a nursing home. What, they hope, will broaden the debate.
