French Presidential elections

[hot air baboon]

Is AEP still keen on all the Bill Clinton conspiracy theories he used to push?

can't see the tweet but how odd - checked his column today & he refer's back to it re the Trump imbroglio




anyway this whole circus will now be decamping from Paris & heading off to Italy

 

[stavros]

Valls seems to be doing a quasi-Macron, being under investigation by PS and "not fulfilling the criteria to stand for" La République en marche, as Macron's party has been rechristened, he's running for parliament as a "free man".

 

[brogdale]

Fascism from furred kettles?

 

[gentlegreen]

Regarder l'info tv en direct

 

[gentlegreen]

I wonder who the PM will be ...

Bayrou all smiles ...

 

[gentlegreen]

Apparently the first time "Le Can Can" has been played in the Élysée

 

[gentlegreen]

Only 21 canon shots ... apparently De Gaulle had it reduced from 101...

 

[mojo pixy]

The Can Can is actually called Le Galop Infernal. What that auspices for Macron's tenure, who can say.

 

[stavros]

A new PM has been appointed, who in turn has appointed a new cabinet.

 

[redsquirrel]

Lovely centrism

Bruno Le Maire, 48, a former agriculture minister and secretary of state for Europe under Sarkozy, was named economy minister, a role which Macron once held himself. Gérald Darmanin, another Sarkozy ally from the right, will work with him in charge of public finances.

 

[J Ed]

Lovely centrism

At least these ideological affinities are out in the open now.

 

[1%er]

Interesting story if true.

Secret plans to 'protect' France in the event of Le Pen victory emerge. The plan was aimed mainly at preventing serious civil unrest and “freezing” the political situation by convening parliament in emergency session and maintaining the outgoing prime minister in office.

Fears of political instability if the anti-immigration, anti-EU Front National leader had been elected were equally acute. Although he subsequently denied saying so, French media reported before the election that if Le Pen won, Socialist prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve would stay on at least until the parliamentary polls.

France’s constitution does not oblige a prime minister to step down when a new president is elected. Under article 8, “the president appoints” prime ministers – but only parliament can remove them from office, through a vote of no confidence.

Le Pen could in principle have invoked article 16 of the constitution, allowing a president “extraordinary powers” in an acute emergency. But short of that, without a parliamentary majority she would not have been able to appoint a new premier.

According to l’Obs, the emergency plan also called for parliament to be convened in emergency session on 11 May, four days after the second round, to address the predicted “national crisis” precipitated by Le Pen’s election.

Faced with mounting civil disorder and demanding France’s 577 MPs step up to their “republican responsibilities”, the government was then to have called – and, presumably, won – a motion of confidence.

The will of the electorate would have been respected: the presidency would have passed from François Hollande to Le Pen. But the government, officials said, would have assured “the security of the state … Government is about planning ahead.”

I wonder if the plan was more far reaching than is reported

 

[emanymton]

Interesting story if true.


I wonder if the plan was more far reaching than is reported

Was just going to post this.
I've not had chance to read it yet. But It could give an idea of what could happen if the left was winning as well. Although from a bit I skimmed it said one of the major concers was violence from the left.

 

[agricola]

Interesting story if true.


I wonder if the plan was more far reaching than is reported

Probably. I don't know what is more insane though - the plan itself (which sounds similar to what the Egyptian State did to Morsi, though without any acknowledgement of what they would do to people during this permanent state of emergency) or the fact that it has come out now, as if the FN won't remember it in five years.

 

[1%er]

Probably. I don't know what is more insane though - the plan itself (which sounds similar to what the Egyptian State did to Morsi, though without any acknowledgement of what they would do to people during this permanent state of emergency) or the fact that it has come out now, as if the FN won't remember it in five years.

It would be interesting to know what leverage the USA played in the removal of Morsi, I'm sure there $1.3 billions dollars in military aid played a part (The USA spreading democracy across the globe, as long as the "right" people get elected, but I guess that is for another thread ).

 

[J Ed]

Probably. I don't know what is more insane though - the plan itself (which sounds similar to what the Egyptian State did to Morsi, though without any acknowledgement of what they would do to people during this permanent state of emergency) or the fact that it has come out now, as if the FN won't remember it in five years.

Neoliberals are circling the wagons.

The future is [Ivanka/Donald] Trump/Chelsea Clinton/Macron/Trudeau/Sam Freedman/Christine Lagarde/etc giving a TED talk which starts with 'sooo... I read a thing' stamping on your face forever.

 

[gentlegreen]

The votes are in for the Législatives :-



Not quite the landslide predicted - very low turnout.

 

[stavros]

They're still very low, but it looks like the FN quadrupled their number of seats.

 

[brogdale]

The votes are in for the Législatives :-

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Not quite the landslide predicted - very low turnout.

Could be a long, hot summer ahead,

 

[gentlegreen]

Macron's government is busy shedding MODEM members including Bayrou himself ...

Two more ministers from Macron ally Modem quit -source

French Justice Minister and Modem party head Francois Bayrou is leaving the government, a source in the prime minister's office said on Wednesday, further complicating a ministerial reshuffle planned by President Emmanuel Macron.
Centre-right Modem, a key ally of Macron's Republic On the Move (LREM) party in presidential and parliamentary elections, is the target of an investigation opened by prosecutors earlier this month into alleged fake European parliament assistant jobs.

On Tuesday, defence minister Sylvie Goulard, also a Modem member, quit, saying she did not want to stay because of the investigation.

On Wednesday, the source told Reuters that Bayrou was also quitting and would not be part of the next cabinet that Macron is due to announce later in the day.
Junior European affairs minister Marielle de Sarnez is also leaving government, sources told Reuters.

Conservative party The Republicans had on Tuesday called for Bayrou and de Sarnez to quit over the investigation into Modem.

On Monday, the government announced that Richard Ferrand, a minister for territorial planning and key member of LREM was leaving to chair the party's group in parliament. He is the target of a separate judicial probe.

 

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[gentlegreen]

Vive La France !
Vive La République !



Regarder l'info tv en direct

 

[gentlegreen]

barbe-tastique

The Pioneers of the French Foreign Legion (French: Pionniers de la Légion étrangère) form a unit of tradition. They lead and open legion parades during all honorific ceremonies of arms and wear beards, buffalo leather aprons (French: tablier de buffle), and arm resting axes on their shoulders.

The unit is considered the only of its kind and type in service within the French Army and France.

So not open to women then

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[gentlegreen]

Doing a Daft Punk medley now

 

[redsquirrel]

Thank goodness Macron was elected.

As with his reforms loosening France’s rigid labour code, Macron plans to push through the SNCF overhaul by executive order to avoid lengthy parliamentary debate, a move his critics have blasted as undemocratic.

 

[J Ed]

Thank goodness Macron was elected.

Privatisation of the SNCF being justified through the need to comply with EU law.

 

[tim]

L' etat c'est lui

 

[Corax]

So now Macron's 'taking on the unions'

If I want a lazy analogy, can I peg him as a French Blair?

 

[stethoscope]

Solidarity to French strikers. So fucking obvious this was coming