. ER Editor: A two-fer on what Politico.eu is reporting as the latest about the likely no-confidence vote to be delivered on the French government, PM Michel Barnier’s budget in particular, and Le Pen herself. […]
. ER Editor: Le Monde has also picked this up. See — Le Pen threatens to bring down French government over budget A reminder that 10-11 million people voted for Le Pen in the summer; […]
. ER Editor: A reminder that French voters were largely on side with the results of the European elections back in early June, i.e. that the vote was swinging everywhere toward the populist, anti-globalist right. […]
. ER Editor: Some Twitter/X reaction to this choice of French PM. Politico.eu gives a favorable reading of Michel Barnier as PM, but more reliable voices are firmly against for very good reason — Translation: […]
. ER Editor: Politico.eu also picked up this story. See — Le Pen accuses Macron of ‘administrative coup’ The word ‘cohabitation’ below refers to what happens in the French government when the President of the […]
. ER: So Le Pen’s party obtained around 34% of the vote yesterday, with the newly formed Front Populaire (all the left) at 29% and Macron’s party at 22%. The RINO-type centre right dropped down […]
. ER Editor: In France, we’ve been treated to a number of dramatic tactics over the runup to the upcoming elections (round 1 is TODAY), one of which was to ‘leak’ that the ‘tyrannical’ Macron […]
. ER Editor: Readers may also be interested in this second piece, in a continuation of the same topic, from Politico — French election: Le Pen threatens to clip Macron’s wings on Ukraine and defense […]
. ER Editor: Eric Ciotti is a senior member of France’s centre-right party of power, Les Republicains (LR) – until recently its president, the party from which Sarkozy and Chirac hailed. Ciotti’s been seeking an alliance […]
. ER Editor: A quick who’s who. Marion Marechal is the attractive, bright niece of Marine Le Pen and a political force in her own right, having been first elected at the tender age of […]
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