Emmanuel Macron: a president without scruples leading France astray
President Emmanuel Macron, according to his entourage, said he had “no scruples” about walking over the rights of Parliament by using an article of the French constitution to force his reform of the pensions system through the chamber, which was denied a vote on the legislation because he knew it would be rejected. In this op-ed article, Mediapart’s publishing editor Edwy Plenel argues that the move shines a clear light on a presidency which, far from acting as a barrage against the far-right, opens up a path for it by accustoming France to its anti-democratic violence and anti-egalitarian ideology.
OnOn April 7th, film director Dominik Moll attended a ceremony in the large lecture hall of the Sorbonne university in Paris, where he received the César des lycéens, a cinema award decided by a vote among 2,000 final-year school pupils, for his latest film The Night of the 12th, for which he had already won the coveted César Award, French cinema’s highest honour, for both best film and best director.
