“We needed a government agreement”: Manuel Valls points out “the lack of meaning” of the second five-year term. “Unity is necessary but we must be lucid about the explosion of hatred towards Jews and Israel,” he nevertheless qualified, evoking the threat of “Islamism, jihadism and political Islam which wants to destroy not only Jews, but also Christians, the West and democracy” “The Constitutional Council makes law, but it was given the hot potato.

I consider that right-wing politicians and the majority have not taken sufficient responsibility”