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Towards a
“government of national unity”
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Three days after the loss of his absolute majority in the National Assembly, the President of the Republic is trying to reconcile all the political groups, to avoid having to deal with an "ungovernable" country.
He therefore receives, since Tuesday, the leaders of the main political parties in the Assembly.
For Marine Le Pen, “the situation does not justify” that the National Rally be part of a government of national unity.
Emmanuel Macron spoke this Wednesday morning with the national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens Julien Bayou, before the LFI Adrien Quatennens, and his former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, boss of the Horizons party.
The deputies of the National Rally took the traditional family photo in front of the National Assembly, this Wednesday morning.
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On the side of the National Assembly, the first presidents of parliamentary groups have been elected.
The deputy of Yvelines Aurore Berger was chosen in the first round to lead the group La République en Marche.
The mayor of Ajaccio Laurent Marcangeli will chair the group of Horizons deputies, as for the elected representative of Eure-et-Loir Olivier Marleix, he will lead the group Les Républicains.
The Covid back?
For a week, the number of positive cases for Covid-19 has increased by 50%, 95,217 people having tested positive on Tuesday according to Public Health France.
A situation which pushes Alain Fischer, immunologist and president of the Council of orientation of the vaccine strategy to see with a good eye the return of the mask in public transport.
"It's a collective protection measure," he said.
For the time being, this epidemic rebound fortunately does not result in an increase in admissions to French hospitals.
More than 920 dead after an earthquake in Afghanistan.
The earthquake, measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale, hit the southeast of the country, near the border with Pakistan.
This earthquake occurred at 1 a.m. local time (6:30 a.m. in France) on Wednesday, at a depth of 10 km.
More than 500 injured were also recorded, while the tragic toll continues to grow.
Houses were destroyed by the disaster, stranding some residents inside their homes.
“We chose another option than Zidane”
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Tuesday evening, the president of Paris Saint-Germain Nasser Al-Khelaïfi confided in the Parisian, burying the track Zinédine Zidane at PSG.
On the question of the future Parisian coach, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi said "hope to quickly find an agreement" to recruit the current coach of OGC Nice, Christophe Galtier.
The Parisian leader also said he wanted to put an end to the "bling-bling" at Paris Saint-Germain, adding that he hoped "players who love the club, who love to fight, who love to win".
The information that concerns you
The passbook A rate will increase again.
This is the announcement made this Wednesday morning by the Governor of the Banque de France, François Villeroy de Galhau.
"There will be a new increase in the booklet A on August 1 next," he said on Wednesday morning on RTL.
If he did not communicate the level of this future increase, François Villeroy de Galhau specified that it would depend “on inflation and interest rates in mid-July”.
Inflation which reached 5.2% in France in May, according to INSEE.
The livret A is the preferred investment of the French, 81.5% of them holding one.
Its rate had risen to 1% last February, after a decision by the Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire.
Before that, it was 0.5%.