What happened yesterday?
The last Saturday of August was the opportunity for several political parties to make their return from the summer.
In Blois (Loir-et-Cher), Olivier Faure insisted, during his closing speech at the Socialist Party’s summer universities, on the persistent danger that the far right would rather repeat his call for the unity of his movement and the left. The strategy of the First Secretary, who decided to refuse Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to the Elysée after the President of the Republic had rejected Lucie Castets’ candidacy for Matignon, is being questioned internally.
In Levens, in the Alpes Maritimes, Eric Ciotti announced the creation of a new political group: the Union of Rights for the Republic. The man who is still the disputed president of the Republicans says he wants to “refound” his in-laws, believing that only “the union of rights” must be permanently established “to the government of France”. “The UDR is reborn”he said, referring to the party founded by Charles de Gaulle in 1967 before being replaced by Jacques Chirac’s Rally for the Republic (RPR) nine years later.
At Flixecourt, in the Somme, the deputy François Ruffin estimated that “If Emmanuel Macron does not set limits for himself, the Assembly will have to set limits for him by all means”calling on the Assembly to “Use all constitutional means”including the dismissal procedure carried out by the deputies of La France insoumise.
In Loyettes, in Ain, the resigned Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, took advantage of a meeting with a hundred Renaissance militants to mock the socialists who “decline” a socialist head of government and the republicans one of their ranks. “Where is the general interest in this postural position? »he wondered.
