French political discussion megathread: Yellow Vest Redux

[Lord Halifax]

Why does this source have the name of a Slavic town?

because it primarily covers news from the four Visegrád countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia.

[Deep Dixieland Senator, Muad'dib (OSR MSR)]

https://twitter.com/mbompard/status/1675558576373354500

LFI nostalgic of Chirac...says it all (but very true words from both)

Me no speako Frog

[Zinneke]

https://twitter.com/mbompard/status/1675558576373354500

LFI nostalgic of Chirac...says it all (but very true words from both)

Me no speako Frog

¿dlǝɥ sᴉɥʇ sǝop

[Deep Dixieland Senator, Muad'dib (OSR MSR)]

https://twitter.com/mbompard/status/1675558576373354500

LFI nostalgic of Chirac...says it all (but very true words from both)

Me no speako Frog

¿dlǝɥ sᴉɥʇ sǝop

Yes, however not as much as subtitles would

[Zinneke]

https://twitter.com/mbompard/status/1675558576373354500

LFI nostalgic of Chirac...says it all (but very true words from both)

Me no speako Frog

¿dlǝɥ sᴉɥʇ sǝop

Yes, however not as much as subtitles would

I mean, the main thing is you have an LFI deputy citing Chirac as an examplary figure, which shows you how the Overtone window has shifted so far in France to the Right.

Chirac's speech itself is asking the French to "understand" where the rioters are coming from and also very explicitly condemns racism.

[PSOL]

It is clear that now with a whole bunch of massacred civilians, the French government will not allow freedom and life to Maghrebis or anyone really. Does French society respect women’s lives?

[Zinneke]

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/elections/senatoriales/senatoriales-la-france-insoumise-denonce-un-enterrement-de-la-nupes-avant-une-possible-alliance-ps-eelv-pcf_5932595.html


LFI are angry at EELV, PS and PCF for negotiating electoral alliances behind their back. NUPES is all but finished.

[lfromnj]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/macron-proposes-cutting-off-social-media-access-in-france-in-response-to-riots/ar-AA1dtMxo

According to Tony protecting France from violent speech is a thing that makes it civilized unlike barbaric America.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Macron wants to ban social media during protests. Vote Macron or else fascism wins or something.

https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-mulls-cutting-access-social-media-during-riots/

[PSOL]

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/elections/senatoriales/senatoriales-la-france-insoumise-denonce-un-enterrement-de-la-nupes-avant-une-possible-alliance-ps-eelv-pcf_5932595.html


LFI are angry at EELV, PS and PCF for negotiating electoral alliances behind their back. NUPES is all but finished.

NUPES has been finished since after the prior legislative election

[CumbrianLefty]

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/elections/senatoriales/senatoriales-la-france-insoumise-denonce-un-enterrement-de-la-nupes-avant-une-possible-alliance-ps-eelv-pcf_5932595.html


LFI are angry at EELV, PS and PCF for negotiating electoral alliances behind their back. NUPES is all but finished.

NUPES has been finished since after the prior legislative election

As was widely forecast at the time tbf.

[PSOL]

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/elections/senatoriales/senatoriales-la-france-insoumise-denonce-un-enterrement-de-la-nupes-avant-une-possible-alliance-ps-eelv-pcf_5932595.html


LFI are angry at EELV, PS and PCF for negotiating electoral alliances behind their back. NUPES is all but finished.

NUPES has been finished since after the prior legislative election

As was widely forecast at the time tbf.

Really it was never to last from its birth, from Meluche’s ego blindsiding him and the fact that the left-liberals without trot history knew this was their chance at rebirth

[NewYorkExpress]

The Government has banned children from wearing the Abaya in state-run schools.

French conservatives on Monday applauded the government's decision to ban children from wearing the abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in state-run schools, but the move also drew criticism and some mockery.

France, which has enforced a strict ban on religious symbols in state schools since 19th century laws removed any traditional Catholic influence from public education, has struggled to update guidelines to deal with a growing Muslim minority.


The strict brand of secularism, known as "laicite," is a sensitive topic, and one often quick to trigger tension.

"Our schools are continually put under test, and over the past months, breaches to laicite have increased considerably, in particular with (pupils) wearing religious attire like abayas and kameez," Education Minister Gabriel Attal told a news conference to explain Sunday's ban.

[lfromnj]

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-two-term-limit-france-presidency-bullsh**t/

Macron calls 2 term limit bullsh**t.

[Antonio the Sixth]

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-two-term-limit-france-presidency-bullsh**t/

Macron calls 2 term limit bullsh**t.

He's really going off the deep end. Good thing he doesn't have the majority to make constitutional changes.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-two-term-limit-france-presidency-bullsh**t/

Macron calls 2 term limit bullsh**t.

He's really going off the deep end. Good thing he doesn't have the majority to make constitutional changes.

Is it good? For him, a third election would quickly become a lesson in humility.

[Chickpeas]

He must be longing for the days of 7 year presidential terms.

[Zinneke]

He must be longing for the days of 7 year presidential terms.

Yes and so are many people but the endless cohabitations were clearly a problem.

[Antonio the Sixth]

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-two-term-limit-france-presidency-bullsh**t/

Macron calls 2 term limit bullsh**t.

He's really going off the deep end. Good thing he doesn't have the majority to make constitutional changes.

Is it good? For him, a third election would quickly become a lesson in humility.

I mean, true, but the thing is that that would probably leave us with President Le Pen...

[CumbrianLefty]

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-two-term-limit-france-presidency-bullsh**t/

Macron calls 2 term limit bullsh**t.

He's really going off the deep end. Good thing he doesn't have the majority to make constitutional changes.

Is it good? For him, a third election would quickly become a lesson in humility.

I mean, true, but the thing is that that would probably leave us with President Le Pen...

Who was the last to do more than 2 terms, was it actually de Gaulle?

[Antonio the Sixth]

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-two-term-limit-france-presidency-bullsh**t/

Macron calls 2 term limit bullsh**t.

He's really going off the deep end. Good thing he doesn't have the majority to make constitutional changes.

Is it good? For him, a third election would quickly become a lesson in humility.

I mean, true, but the thing is that that would probably leave us with President Le Pen...

Who was the last to do more than 2 terms, was it actually de Gaulle?

No one. De Gaulle didn't even finish his second term. Only Mitterrand and Chirac managed to complete two full terms (the former served two 7-year terms while the latter was reelected after the move to a 5-year term, meaning Mitterrand will forever hold the record barring a major constitutional change). Even if you look back to the Third Republic, no president served more than two terms.

[NewYorkExpress]

The government is moving to ban disposable e-cigarettes.

France plans to ban disposable electronic cigarettes, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on radio station RTL on Sunday.

“It’s an important public health issue,” said Borne, adding that the government is drawing up plans for a national programme to fight tobacco use that she said was responsible for 75,000 deaths a year in France.

[Estrella]

« Il est défendu de parler breton et de cracher à terre »

French Government face legal action after banning parents from giving their child a Breton name

Mélissa Yana and Étienne Pichancourt have been told they can’t name their newborn son Fañch, the equivalent of Francis or Ffransis which is associated with prominent Breton writers and language advocates.

The decision by France’s public prosecutor comes despite the country’s highest civil court upholding the right of another Breton family to give their child the same name in 2019. Yana and Pichancourt were initially refused permission to use the name, which includes an accent which does not exist in French, when they went to register the birth.

The mayor of Lorient, where Fañch was born on June 17, then intervened to approve the name and the couple received official identity documents with their son’s correct name. But they have now received a letter from France’s public prosecutor which says he “cannot legally do anything other than proceed with the administrative correction of the error in the writing of your child’s first name.”

France’s national assembly passed a law on regional languages in 2021, which included the right to use accents like the ‘tildé’ in the name Fañch. But that part of the legislation was later struck down by the constitutional court, along with provisions for immersive education in France’s minority languages.

[Sir John Johns]

Looks like the f__cking prefecture of police of Paris didn’t got the memo about the prohibition of using the tilde, spelling the name of the prefect of police (surely a dangerous anti-republican separatist) as Laurent Nuñez and not Laurent Nunez in official documents.

See for example the first tweet from the prefecture I could find:
https://twitter.com/prefpolice/status/1701255485783994812

And this is the exact same people (because Nuñnez has been previously a state secretary in the Interior ministry) who are non-stop talking about 'the one and indivisible French Republic', about the equality of citizens before the law, about 'integration' of the foreigners (Nunez is born in France, from a French Pied-Noir family which left Spain at the end of the nineteenth century; why is he using a 'foreign' spelling then?).

Relatedly, the Finistère commune where I live had its name misspelled by the Interior Ministry and in all official documents of the central government with the missing acute accent on the second ‘e’ suggesting an aberrant pronunciation (the last time the Tour de France passed through it, the TV commentator on France-Télévision had indeed a hard time trying to pronounce it and mispronounced it because he was using the officially misspelled version). Fortunately, all documents of the municipality, the canton and the département council as well as the road signs (as you can see on the photo accompanying the Wikipedia article) are using the correct (and logical) spelling which is matching the correct pronunciation of the name.

[Zinneke]

NUPES in crisis again, this time over Mathilde Panot of LFI refusing to call Hamas a terrorist organisation.

Gee us normal sane social democrats warned this kind of stuff would go down.