Barely had he completed his general policy statement when the Prime Minister received the invoice from the leader of the RN. Marine Le Pen wants guarantees on purchasing power, immigration and a reform of the voting system so as not to bring down the government.
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Par Joëlle MeskensPublished on 1/10/2024 at 6:49 p.m.
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Michel Barnier had been warned. When he climbed to the podium of the National Assembly, the septuagenarian would not find the atmosphere he had known on the red velvet armchairs of the Palais Bourbon more than thirty years ago, during his last mandate as deputy. . The Prime Minister was not disappointed when he began his general policy speech this Tuesday afternoon. “We didn’t vote for you!” “, shouted Insoumis deputies, brandishing their electoral cards in a continuous ruckus. Nearly three months after the legislative elections which ended in a narrow victory for the New Popular Front (NFP), the left alliance has still not digested what it considers to be an electoral kidnapping.
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