The Minister of the Interior soon to be pushed out? Gérald Darmanin will leave the government in the event of defeat of the majority in the legislative elections on July 7, he announced Friday June 21. “If the RN or LFI ever came to win, I would under no circumstances be Minister of the Interior, even for a few more weeks”he detailed during a trip to Lille (North), almost a month before the start of the Olympic Games. “If I were ever to be beaten as a deputy, obviously I would not continue to be a minister”, added the one who intends to save his mandate in the North. Follow our live stream.
The New Popular Front details its economic program. The left alliance gave a press conference dedicated to “costing and financing” of its measurements. The reinstatement of the wealth tax could bring “12, 13 billion” euros the first years, before rising to 15 billion euros per year, argued the economist Julia Cagé. The New Popular Front also intends to implement a tax on superprofits, which would also bring in 15 billion euros per year.
More than a million proxies, more than in 2022. Ten days before the election, 1,055,067 proxies were established for the early legislative elections, announced the Ministry of the Interior. “We have therefore already exceeded the 2022 figure for the first round of the legislative elections [1 021 350]“, underlines the ministry. He specifies that for the same period, between twenty and ten days before the 1st round, “we count 6.2 times more proxies” only in 2022.
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.
