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French President Emmanuel Macron has “angered everyone” and is likely to leave his post early, right-wing leader Marine Le Pen has predicted, stating she has been already preparing for early elections “out of precaution.”

Speaking with Le Parisien newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday, the long-time leader of the right-wing populist National Rally (RN) party, who currently heads its parliamentary group, said Macron had lost all authority both at home and abroad. 

“He has angered everyone. He has no more influence in the European Union,” Le Pen said.

Macron is likely to leave his post early, Le Pen asserted, stating that she has already been preparing to run for office. She has run for the highest office before, facing off against Macron in 2017 and 2020, when she managed to show better results yet still lost to the incumbent. 

Emmanuel Macron is done or almost done,” she said. “I am preparing for an early presidential election, out of precaution, taking into account Emmanuel Macron’s fragility and what little institutional levers he has left.”

Le Pen’s assessment contrasts with the pledges Macron has repeatedly made to remain in office until 2027. He has ruled out any possibility of leaving early despite calls from the opposition for his resignation. 

France ended up in political turmoil after snap elections held in June and July, as the polls saw no party win an outright majority in parliament. After two months of back-and-forth, Macron picked Michel Barnier, a 73-year-old conservative and former Brexit negotiator, to head the government.

Barnier’s tenure ended up being the shortest in France’s modern history after he lost a no-confidence vote in parliament in early December, thus plunging the country into an even deeper crisis. Barnier became the first prime minister to lose such a vote since 1962.

https://www.rt.com/news/609565-le-pen-macron-elections/

 

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le dictateur....

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has described French President Emmanuel Macron as a “dictator” for clamping down on the rights of people living in France’s overseas territories and former colonies. He also criticized France for arming Azerbaijan’s regional rival, Armenia.

France has 12 overseas territories, which are home to a total of 2.6 million people.

In May, clashes erupted in the Pacific territory of New Caledonia after the French government proposed granting voting rights to new settlers. Indigenous Kanak people feared the measure would leave them in a permanent minority, putting independence hopes out of reach.

France deployed hundreds of riot police officers and troops to quell the unrest. Nine people were killed in the disturbances and the damage was estimated at more than 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion).

Then-French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin stated at the time that “some of the Caledonian separatists made a deal with Azerbaijan.”

In an interview with Russian media outlets on Wednesday, Aliyev stated that Western powers, particularly France, often lecture other nations on justice but are reluctant to address their own flaws, including neocolonial policies. He specifically criticized the “ugly face of French colonialism,” in New Caledonia earlier this year.

They killed 13 people during the disturbances, wounded more than 100 [and] arrested over 1,000. And the leaders of the popular protest were transferred to France [and] are being held in prisons… This is Macron’s dictatorship,”Aliyev claimed.

The Azerbaijani leader then touched on the plight of the Corsican language on the eponymous island. He was apparently referring to a court ruling last March, which prohibited the local language from being used in the regional assembly.

“Is this democracy, human rights?” Aliyev inquired rhetorically.

Relations between France and Azerbaijan have soured since Baku retook the breakaway region of Karabakh by force in autumn 2023 – a move condemned by Paris. The territory’s predominantly ethnic-Armenian population largely fled after their self-proclaimed state fell.

Soon thereafter, then-French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna announced Paris’ plans to supply Yerevan with weapons and defense equipment.

In June of this year, Armenia and the US stated that they intended to upgrade their bilateral relations to the level of “strategic partnership,” with Washington pledging to help Yerevan in its “defense transformation.”

Commenting on these developments in the interview, Aliyev said that the “weaponry, which Macron’s government is supplying to Armenia, is offensive lethal weaponry that poses a practical threat to Azerbaijan.”

Aliyev added that Baku has “repeatedly made it clear to Armenia and its backers in the US Department of State that this must stop.” According to the Azerbaijani president, however, his country’s concerns have been ignored.

https://www.rt.com/russia/609537-azerbaijani-president-calls-macron-dictator/

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SINS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

 

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