Published on : 01/03/2021 – 07:50
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On the front page of the press, Monday March 1, the bloody repression in Burma of the demonstrations against the coup of February 1. The return of former President Donald Trump to the forefront of the American political scene. The controversy, in France, on the scenario of a new duel Emmanuel Macron / Marine Le Pen in 2022. And fashion, to change ideas.
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On the front page of the press, the bloody repression, Sunday, in Burma, of pro-democracy demonstrations, which protest against the coup d’etat of 1is February.
According to The Straits Times, at least 18 people were killed during yesterday’s day alone. The Singapore newspaper reports live ammunition at demonstrators, and more than a thousand arrests since the start of the mobilization. British daily The Guardian quotes a Catholic official, in this predominantly Buddhist country, who yesterday evoked a country transformed into a “battlefield”, in particular in Rangoon, the former capital, where demonstrators were targeted while they were trying to bring the wounded to the ‘shelter. In Naypyidaw, the new capital, others held up portraits of Aung San Suu Kyi demanding her release, according to Time. The Nobel Peace Prize winner, overthrown by the coup, accused, among other things, of illegally importing walkie-talkies, is due again today in court, in a remote hearing and in behind closed doors.
Also on the front page, Donald Trump’s first public appearance since leaving the White House, at a Republican Party conference. Refusing, again and again, to recognize his defeat in the presidential election, the former boss of the White House called for “unity” of the conservatives, according to The Times, which specifies that Donald Trump assures that he does not intend to create a new party, while not ruling out representing himself. This prospect freezes his detractors, torn between disbelief and worry. “Is Donald Trump a travesty of himself on the decline or a terrifying threat?” : USA Today reports a poll, which found 55% of Republican activists say they intend to vote again for him if he runs for re-election. If the newspaper observes that this proportion is in clear decrease compared to the months preceding the presidential election, it also notes that if we add these voting intentions, to those in favor of the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, presented as a “mini-Trump”, the two men together represent 76%, or an overwhelming majority, of Republicans. The hold of Donald Trump and his ideas on the Conservatives can be found in Steve Breen’s drawing for The San Diego Union Tribune, which shows him slaying the Republican elephant. Or in that of Ed Hall, found on Twitter, where elephants became sheep idolizing a smelly Trump.
The new president, Joe Biden, took the opposite view of his predecessor, choosing to make public on Friday a US intelligence report directly implicating the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Charges which will not, however, be followed by any sanction against Mohammed ben Salman, much to the discontent of the Financial Times, which concludes that the United States “holds the crown prince responsible, but does not hold him to account”. “Jamal Khashoggi, big words and then nothing”: L’Opinion wonders “what is the point of unveiling (a) document that angered the Saudi regime, without satisfying its opponents shocked by the pusillanimity of the American president?”. For the French daily, “this attitude is reminiscent of Péguy’s sentence on Kant’s philosophy:” He has clean hands. But he has no hand “”.
In France, the majority express their anger after the newspaper Release reported, this weekend, the refusal expressed by some of the left-wing voters to vote for Emmanuel Macron, in the event of a new duel with Marine Le Pen in 2022. The front page of the discord is republished on the front page of this morning , a setting in abyss, to drive the point home. Faced with the anger of the elected representatives of La République en Marche, Libé criticizes a “macronie in full denial”, whose “cries of orchard” would hardly mask the concern. The newspaper warns Emmanuel Macron against the temptation to replay the card of the “republican front” against the patron of the National Rally, as in 2017. A choice that Release accuses the president of maintaining “cleverly, convinced that he will push the left to mobilize for him”, at the risk of playing “dangerously with fire”. Emmanuel Macron may also have to deal in 2022 with the ambitions of Nicolas Sarkozy, whose shadow still hangs over French political life. Unless his legal setbacks get the better of the former president, against whom the prosecution has requested imprisonment for “corruption” and “influence peddling”, in the so-called “eavesdropping” case. The judgment is expected this Monday, according to La Dépêche du Midi.
We do not leave each other on this. To change ideas, The Guardian reports on a trend born in these times of Covid and remote meetings: pajamas suits, or pajama suits, which have the advantage of making you presentable, while protecting your comfort. A trend that is both relaxed AND elegant, unlike the one described The Daily Star : the combination of taps and socks. A total sacrilege, whatever the fashionistas say.
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