The conclusion of an agreement between the different political formations claiming they belong to the left and the ecologist movements with the view of the coming parliamentary elections make us inevitably thinking to the Seventies alliances between the left parties and to the Common Program. They were going to lead to the François Mitterrand election 1981 May 10^th, followed by a large victory in the parliamentary elections some weeks later. A similar alliance in 1997 will allow the “plural left” to winning the parliamentary elections and to constraining Jacques Chirac to nominate Lionel Jospin Prime minister. The cohabitation ...

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The low share of the poll obtained by the presidential majority at the European Parlement elections and the decision taken by the president of the Republic to call snap legislative polls at the National Assembly carry the risk to sink France into a major political crisis and to worry financial markets. The prospect of a victory of the far-right parties which for years are criticizing the European Union, after having even proposed to exit from it and to abandon the euro, constitutes a real threat. In case of a lack of majority after these elections, it also opens the possibility ...

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The creation, by the National Assembly, of a select Committee in charge of inquiring about the situation of the public finances, chaired by a deputy, belonging to the opposition, a member of the republican party, Philippe Juvin, is just another new episode of this long controversy about the country public indebtedness. But what is the importance of the report which is going to be elaborated? Is it to make a pressure on the government during the preparation of the 2025 finance bill which will be presented in September or is it to make an objective analysis of the origin and ...

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