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SUNDAY NOTEBOOKS. For 48 hours, the current local elected official had been chosen by Emmanuel Macron to become his Prime Minister. Behind the scenes.
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By Herve Gattegno
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HAShave you ever seen such suckers? The program of the Nupes (New Popular Ecological and Social Union, the gathering of the lefts orchestrated by Jean-Luc Mélenchon) deserves to be read in detail, because it makes it possible to understand why some of its most emblematic measures will never be applied – even in the highly improbable hypothesis that this alliance would have a majority at the end of the legislative elections of 12th and 19th June.
In the 650 measures of this new “common program”, Mélenchonists, socialists, communists and ecologists have notably agreed to promise retirement at age 60 (with forty annuities), the 32-hour week for “arduous” jobs, the sixth week of paid vacation: an XXL “whatever the cost”. But on thirty three…
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