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Sans aucune femme, évidemment. Dans les coulisses, d'ici peu, le chiffre 3 pourrait bien devenir 4 ou 5. Mais toujours pas le moindre signe d'une dame. La France serait-elle devenue totalement masculine sur le terrain présidentiel ? C'est ahurissant...

François Hollande has barely started his speech revealing that he won’t be seeking a second term in office. Removal people are already carting away his personal furniture and belongings. Click here to appreciate some well-done presidential humor.

For a current president, there's no better way of gaining popularity than to announce that you'll be abandoning the job. That leaves the way open to both friends and enemies to say publicly that you were a nice fellow. I wonder what would happen if he were to suddenly say: " Now that I see that more people admire me, I think I should change my mind and envisage a second term. " If ever François Hollande were to adopt this approach, I think he should be careful. I'm not very experienced in the domain of presidential counseling. I'm pleased to see that Bernard Cazeneuve has accepted the nice task of guiding both the nation and her chief to the end of an era. He's a courageous gentleman. Above all, he has been a faultless head cop, and he'll surely go down in modern French history for that. As for the outgoing president, I'm not convinced that history will store away a good image of his passage.

What exactly is that white object that the president is waving? Is it a handkerchief... or maybe some kind of female garment? The barrister's past-tense words are hard to understand: " You know, he was a good fellow. " Good for whom?

                                      [p hoto Albert Facelly pour Libératio n] I can't see how François Fillon could possibly be beaten in the presidential course. His lead is enormous. From this point on, a new problem arises on the horizon. We must make sure that the extreme right-wing party, the Front National , sinks rapidly into oblivion.

#FillonPresident #Fillon2017 He’s a good-looking provincial fellow with a time-honored old French given name : François. He’s also a little “vieille France” (old France). It’s not hard to understand why the French—totally shocked by Islamic terrorists and Trump, fed up by Sarko and Copé, slightly irritated by the self-esteem of the older Juppé—find that Fillon is surely a simple man of qualities. That's what we need today : simplicity and human qualities. photo Jean-Sébastien Evrard  / AFP

No ! We’re not boat people looking for a new land. We’re simply abandoning a sinking ship. In this political cartoon by Plantu , which appeared in L’Express , the captain of the red vessel is François Hollande , whose regard is directed constantly towards the heavens. The big ship in the foreground is a French Navy vessel, whose sailors are recognizable because of red pompons on their caps. The red vessel is about to crash into an iceberg whose summit has the same shape as Hollande's head. In the lifeboat, a tattered flag carries the rose symbol of Hollande’s Socialist party.

The French press views the defeat of Cécile Duflot as a big surprise. The contenders Yannick Jadot and Michèle Rivasi emerged victorious from the primary.

                         [photo THOMAS SAMSON / AFP] In an interview yesterday, Alain Juppé said that, in the legal domain, it can be preferable to have a past rather than a future . What a superb summary! When asked whether he might be thinking of anybody in particular, the candidate replied: “ No, it’s a general remark. ” That’s tact… but I’m still convinced Juppé was thinking of his principal right-wing opponent. BREAKING NEWS : This morning, the candidate Bruno Le Maire thought he might be smart in jumping onto the bandwaggon. « C'est encore mieux de n'avoir ni passé ni avenir judiciaire. » ( It's better still to have neither a judiciary past nor future. ) Dull Bruno's remark reminded me of words from Forrest Gump . Of course, you silly bugger, we all know that it's better to have no problems whatsoever with the law. Le Maire was simply demonstrating (unnecessarily) that he doesn't cogitate as brilli...

Click here to see how one of these two former friends seems to be moving away clearly from the other. I don't want to mention names, for fear my readers might imagine that I'm behaving unfairly. All I have to say is: Continue to move in that direction! PS As you can see, there's no way in the world that I would ever allow myself to be as outspoken as Robert De Niro . Besides, that would be needless overkill. Even the worst politicians in France are angelic when compared with the vulgar Trump "punk".

This evening, presidential candidate Alain Juppé will be interviewed on France 2 by David Pujadas and Léa Salamé . It should be an important encounter, because this is the major political talk show. If everything were to go over well, as it should, then Juppé would be closer than ever to his goal of becoming the next president of France. The only thing that surprises me is Juppé's claim to have never watched one of the previous interviews between the Pujadas/Salamé journalists and a presidential candidate. In other words, he should be perfectly spontaneous. A lot will depend, too, on the emotional state of the female journalist. Will Léa snarl at Juppé (as with Sarkozy ) or will she smile (as with Montbourg )?

The candidate is Alain Juppé , currently mayor of Bordeaux : our likely future president. Click here for a short announcement of a TV documentary by FOG (Franz-Olivier Giesbert), which France will we watching this evening. If I wanted to be "sarkastic", I would say that Juppé’s major merit is that he’ll save us from Sarkozy .