THE GENERAL POLTIICAL STATEMENT OF EODUARD PHILIPPE VOTED BY FRENCH ASSEMBLY

USPA NEWS - The French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe won Tuesday the confidence of the National Assembly with 370 votes for and 67 against. Not surprisingly, all the members of the groups in the running Republic and MoDem voted for confidence. Conversely, France rejected and the FN deputies voted one block against. It is more complicated for the Republicans, among the constructive and the socialists, where opinions diverge.

STATEMENT OF FRENCH PM, EDOUARD PHILIPPE, AT FRENCH ASSEMBLY ON JULY 4TH AT FRENCH PARLIAMENT - PART I------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Despite a difficult destiny, I am, I remain always optimistic. Life has taught me that with time, progress always prevailed. It's long, it's slow, but in the end, I trust. These words are by Simone VEIL. They were pronounced in 1995 but they are in fact eternal and they are those of France. They say it takes effort and courage to make progress. They also say how much confidence and progress have been linked.---------------------------------------------------------- TRIBUTE TO SIMONE VEIL WHICH HAS BECOME A GREAT ICON-------------------------------------------------------------- As I speak from this rostrum in front of the national delegation, and after quoting Simone VEIL, I want to talk about another woman, a woman who, in the summer of 2003, was pushing the heavy doors Of a large Parisian school, a young woman whom nothing predestined to enter, a young woman who grew up in Seine-Saint-Denis, followed by schooling in establishments in priority education districts in Villetaneuse and Saint-Ouen, a young woman whose parents, chauffeur-bagagiste and nursing assistant, did not expect her to go to this great Parisian school, then became a lawyer, then worked in the most prestigious law firms, and then founded His own practice.-------------------------------------------------------------------- This young woman sits today on your benches. His success is the product of his work, his commitment, his tenacity. It also owes it to the decision of a public official - in this case, the director of Sciences Po - who had, a few years ago, s

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IS DIVERSIFIED AND MORE FEMINIZED--------------------------------------------------------- A public policy criticized when it was adopted, copied from then on and which appears a few years later, thanks to the work and effort of those who benefit from it, as a model, as a progress. It is long, it is difficult, but it works and not only for this girl. At least two of you have benefited from this audacious public policy, including a young man from Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, one of the youngest members of this Assembly who will perhaps be one of those great figures that Guyana sometimes offers our country. Individual paths, certainly, but made possible by a public policy. So goes the Republic or rather so should it go. I look at this assembly, I look at these benches where I sat a few weeks ago, I see a breeder of the Creuse, a farmer like his father, his grandfather and so many others before him, rooted in his Earth To the point where the place where he lives bears the name of his family. He fought to continue to live there, to defend the excellence of French agriculture. I see a young woman officer who took part in two foreign operations and commanded one of the companies of the Franco-German brigade. I see another of your babies born in Rwanda four years before the genocide and gathered by the Republic who offered him his best face and who can be proud to see him today represent the nation. I see high-level athletes, entrepreneurs, scientists, activists from the voluntary sector. I see even matheuses, matheuses who, by their talent and their work, are both a pride for your Assembly and a pride for France. I see an assembly rejuvenated, feminized and widely renewed since 430 of you are taking their first steps in this chamber. An Assembly that bears the republican heritage and resembles France.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And it is this renewed Assembly, ladies and gentlemen, that presents itself a parity government, also deeply renewed by the diversity of its origins - professional and political - and that the president of the Republic has asked me to direct . I measure this honor. I also take responsibility for my task and I approach it with great humility, with a humility that is all the greater as I prepared all the statements of my predecessors. I say all, from that of Michel DEBRÉ on January 15, 1959 until that of Bernard CAZENEUVE on December 14 last.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRIBUTE TO ALAIN JUPPE EX PRIME MINISTER, MENTOR OF EDOUARD PHILIPPE------------------------------------- All these discourses were inspired by the most sincere convictions, by a patriotism worthy of praise, and by the sense of the highest State. It is necessary to have the courage to say it, even if it is against the wisdom of received ideas, France has never lacked competent politicians and often of exceptional quality. I also know what I owe to one of them, Alain JUPPE, and I would like to pay tribute here. "Of all these statements of general policy, two have particularly marked me, I quote from the first:" From this blocked society, I retain three essential elements: the fragility of our economy, the often defective functioning of the State , And finally the archaism and conservatism of our social structures. "These words are very timely and have been pronounced by Jacques CHABAN-DELMAS on September 16, 1969, 48 years ago. Were not born. The second is a little more recent, I quote again: "Our priorities are not those of half of France against the other half but those of all the French. Undoing what others have done, doing what others will defeat, that is the kind of policy that voters no longer want. We will not ask anyone to join us by interest or betray his convictions. "These are the words of Michel ROCARD on June 29, 1988, almost thirty years ago. ROCARD, CHABAN, two eminent personalities, two statesmen who embodied two essential currents of our political life, Gaullism and Social Democracy. Two men who agreed on a statement and a method, and yet the diagnosis made 48 years ago remains unfortunately valid, the method proposed 30 years ago remains a requirement but too rarely a reality. See the rest of the statement on the following article.