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Will François Bayrou find the right political mix to avoid receiving a red card from the National Assembly from the outset? To be able to answer yes to this question, the Prime Minister is continuing his negotiations this Monday in order to avoid censorship from the left and avoiding offending his LR allies, on the eve of his general policy declaration. And the subject at the heart of the discussions is none other than that of pension reform. On the left, some expect a gesture on this issue, while the Prime Minister is already at his lowest in the polls. Among the Macronists, the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, affirmed on Sunday “not to be opposed in principle” to the fact of briefly “stopping” the pension reform to “re-discuss” it, calling it ” ‘unfair’. But, proof of the differences within the presidential camp, Gérald Darmanin estimated on LCI that the reform should “not be touched”. The right, which is part of the government, has already warned that it does not want the reform to be suspended without cost-saving measures.
On the fire front in California, the news is as tragic as ever. The situation is very far from being under control and is even tending to deteriorate. Los Angeles is indeed preparing for the return of violent winds threatening to fan the fires which leave scenes of desolation in its metropolitan area. Besieged by flames since last Tuesday, the second most populous city in the United States continues to count its dead: the toll increased on Sunday evening to 24 dead. And with the return of hot, dry winds, evacuees will not be able to return home until Thursday.
Diplomatic relations are at their worst between Paris and Algiers. And Gérald Darmanin’s latest proposal should not smooth over the edges with Algeria. The Minister of Justice in fact announced on LCI on Sunday that he wanted to “remove” the agreement which allows the Algerian nomenklatura to travel to France without a visa. “Touching the leaders or most of the Algerian leaders who have the decision-making position of humiliation, as mentioned by the Minister of the Interior (Bruno Retailleau), it seems to me more intelligent, more effective and it can be done very quickly,” explained the Minister of Justice. Already tumultuous, relations between the two countries have worsened in recent days with the arrest in Montpellier of an Algerian influencer, “Doualemn”, after a contentious video on TikTok. Put on a plane Thursday for Algeria, he was sent back to France the same evening. A decision seen as a humiliation in Paris.
