“It is time to accelerate the ecological transformation, we will invest 15 billion in the next two years to facilitate the process,” said Macron meeting the 150 French (drawn by lot) in the gardens of the Elysée who have worked on the Convention of the citizens of the climate by presenting their proposals to the president today with perfect timing. “I welcome all your ideas except three” (including a 4% dividend tax and a speed limit of 110 km / h by car, ed), he guaranteed, promising to turn them over to Parliament to turn them into law after the summer.
France, municipal ballot: Hidalgo proclaims victory in Paris. Premier Philippe elected in Le Havre
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Macron’s environmental acceleration coincides not too coincidentally with the unequivocal response of the local elections, marked by a worrying 60% of abstention: Eelv’s ecologists have won out, winning for the first time the mayor’s chair in many large centers like Bordeaux (torn after 73 years to the right), Lyon and Strasbourg, obtaining the relative majority also in Marseille where their candidate Michéle Rubirola will play the first citizen’s chair in the third round. The right of Les Républicains (Lr) has lost some strongholds but has won in the majority of small towns. The Rassemblement National triumphed in Perpignan with Louis Aliot, former companion of the leader Marine Le Pen. The socialists held Paris with the clear victory of Anne Hidalgo.
The Elysée and Lrem instead came out of the second round of local empty-handed voting: the only victory on the field, that of Le Havre, has a slightly bitter taste, because the new mayor of the city – with a wide margin – is Eduard Philippe, the prime minister who, thanks to the management of Covid, overtook Macron in the polls and who could (for some reason) be the first victim of a possible government reshuffle. Among the many defeats, however, the hardest one is the knockout in Paris where Agnés Buzyn, the candidate of En marche, remained below 16% and was unable even to join the city council.
From Lyon to Marseille, France to vote. The Greens conquering other cities
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The President of the Republic met Philippe – with whom he had congratulated the night before on the phone – to try to give a sign of unity of the executive. Not least because the victory of the Republican right-hand man makes his potential replacement at the head of the government more complex. And Philippe, not surprisingly, showed up in the audience at the Elysée to listen to Macron’s speech. If the board holds and if the Elysée does not attempt to replace the republican prime minister, it will be seen in the coming months. In the background there are already the presidential elections scheduled in two years where Philippe himself could take the field and where the results of yesterday’s municipals have shuffled the cards not only for Macron but also in the left grappling with a green wave of which everyone – as the Elysée has shown – will have to take into account from today.
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