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00:00Welcome to a new edition of Le Diamant, here are the headlines.
00:22At the Royal Palace in Casablanca, His Majesty the King Mohammed VI presided over a work session on the revision of the family code.
00:36In the Hamas-Palestine-Israel war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautiously mentioned advancements for an agreement on hostages, one of the conditions for a ceasefire.
00:52And in France, the new head of government, François Bayrouf, has finally put his team together. The government is marked by the return of several ministers.
01:06His Majesty the King Mohammed VI presided over a work session on the revision of the family code on Monday at the Royal Palace in Casablanca.
01:22His Majesty the King Mohammed VI presided over a work session on the revision of the family code on Monday at the Royal Palace in Casablanca.
01:42His Majesty the King Mohammed VI presided over a work session on the revision of the family code on Monday at the Royal Palace in Casablanca.
01:52It also took place after His Majesty the King Mohammed VI wanted to seize the Supreme Council of the Ulama on certain proposals related to religious texts on which the Council issued a legal opinion.
02:05It also intervenes after His Majesty the King Mohammed VI proceeded with the necessary arbitration on the issues on which the court issued more than one opinion or those whose revision required the use of the opinion of the Sharia.
02:18This work session is an opportunity to highlight the capacity of constructive Ijtihad in the deduction of the rules of Sharia, the right environment and the moderation of the Moroccan school of faith, which lays its foundations in the religious constants of the kingdom.
02:33In this context, His Majesty the King Mohammed VI called on the Supreme Council of the Ulama to pursue the reflection and adopt constructive Ijtihad on the issue of the family.
02:44In order to clarify the main contents of the revision of the family code, the sovereign charged during this session the head of the government and the ministers to communicate with the public opinion and to keep it informed of the novelties of this revision.
02:58Concerning the legislative phase of the revision of the family code and the discussions and votes that will follow in the two chambers of parliament, His Majesty the King reminded the references and the foundations that must frame it.
03:10These are principles of justice, equality, solidarity and coherence taken by Islam, as well as universal values emanating from international conventions ratified by Morocco.
03:22His Majesty the King also underlined the need to keep in mind the desire for reform and openness to progress desired by the sovereign through the launch of this initiative and to guarantee the protection of the family on the legal, social and economic levels.
03:39The role of constructive Ijtihad has been highlighted by trying to find a just balance between the rules of Sharia and the modern requirements of Moroccan society.
03:53How can Ijtihad contribute to reconcile tradition and modernity in the reform of the family code?
04:00I invite you to listen to Leila Amili, President of the Malibre Association.
04:08For Ijtihad, in the letter of His Majesty, which was really relevant to Mr. Arnouj in order to work on the commission that will work on the revision of the family code,
04:25it was really important to say that we are in an Islamic country, we respect Islam, we respect our customs, but at the same time, we have to see Ijtihad.
04:34We have had a lot of changes in Morocco, especially the family, especially the women.
04:42All this calls for everyone to be there. It is the country that will win with a family code that will respect the family and the changes that we have had during these 20 years because we cannot deny all these changes.
05:00I think that with the scholars, it is very interesting that His Majesty wanted to intervene. The scholars, it's just because sometimes there are people who talk about the Koran, who talk about things.
05:15So we would like someone who is in the field, who understands a lot. I don't understand things better than the scholars. So we want the council to respect the choices of the Moroccans and the change we want.
05:31While what we want and what we expect with great patience is that the family code will be for the next 20 years or 18 years. So maybe we'll talk about that in 2040, 2044, I don't know.
05:44So it is mandatory that there will be a change that takes into account the changes we have experienced during these 20 years.
05:53And we must have a view for the next 20 years and the change we have had because I don't think there are significant changes that must be there. For example, I don't think there is someone who will vote for the minor marriage while we insist that our children have the right to go to school until the age of 18 for the sharing of goods.
06:16Unfortunately, once we started talking about the family code, there are rumors in the street, there are people who want to say that they want to destroy the family. This family code is not for the family, it is for the woman.
06:32It's not that. It's a family code for the family. It's a code for all people, for society. And we're not here to know who's going to win. The winner is Morocco. And the winners are the citizens and the citizens. And the winners are our families.
06:53In international news, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautiously mentioned on Monday an agreement on hostages held in the Gaza Strip, one of the conditions for a ceasefire.
07:06Negotiations are underway. Last week in Qatar, between Israel and Hamas, with Doha and Egypt as mediators, the hope of an agreement on hostages in Gaza was revived.
07:18Everything we are doing cannot be revealed, but we are acting to bring them home, said Benjamin Netanyahu during an intervention in Parliament.
07:28Hamas and two other Palestinian groups said on Saturday that a ceasefire agreement was closer than ever. Most of the points concerning the ceasefire, an exchange of prisoners made the object of an agreement,
07:41had indicated to the Agence France-Presse, a Hamas official in reference, an exchange between hostages in Gaza and Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
07:51In international news, the Israeli army announced on Tuesday that it had intercepted a projectile launched from Yemen before it entered Israeli airspace.
08:04Sirens of air alert were heard in the center and south of the country. A projectile launched from Yemen was intercepted before entering Israeli territory.
08:16This is what the Israeli army said on Telegram. According to it, the sirens resounded due to the possibility of a flash drop during the interception.
08:25Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that he asked the army to destroy the infrastructure of the rebel Houthis in Yemen,
08:35who had fired several missiles on Israel in recent days.
08:40He wounded 16 people in the night from Friday to Saturday in Tel Aviv.
08:45The action in France, or after a weekend of intense negotiations and exchanges between Prime Minister François Bayrou and President Emmanuel Macron,
09:00the centrist leader composed this Monday his government marked by the return of several ministers of the former team.
09:16I'm sorry, usually I think of everything.
09:19The new Prime Minister had claimed his ability to appoint a government of the age of gathering, on the right as on the left.
09:26The team of 35 members, including 18 women, includes four ministers of state, including two former Prime Ministers of Matignon,
09:32Elisabeth Borne, who is in charge of national education, and Manuel Valls, who inherits from the overseas.
09:38Gérard Darmanin also returns to the government as Minister of Justice three months after his departure from the interior.
09:45On the proposal of the Prime Minister, in charge of ecological and energy planning, the President of the Republic has appointed
09:54Mrs. Elisabeth Borne, Minister of State, Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research,
10:03Mr. Manuel Valls, Minister of State, Minister of the Overseas,
10:09Mr. Gérald Darmanin, Minister of State, Minister of Justice,
10:17Mr. Bruno Retailleau, Minister of State, Minister of the Interior.
10:24The Beirut government also includes 19 re-elected ministers.
10:28The centrist governmental base would ultimately be quite close to that of Michel Barnier,
10:33overthrown on December 4 by a motion of censure of the National Assembly after three months in office.
10:39Mr. Bruno Retailleau, Minister of State, Minister of the Interior.
10:45Mrs. Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and Families.
10:52Mr. Eric Lombard, Minister of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty.
11:00One of the first tasks of this government, on the 4th of 2024, will be to adopt a budget
11:06while the government of Michel Barnier has been overthrown by the National Assembly on the first major financial text,
11:12the budget for social security.
11:17Ten days after the nomination of François Bayrou as Prime Minister,
11:22the government was announced last night in France.
11:27The ministers were appointed this Monday by President Emmanuel Macron
11:31on the proposition of the new Prime Minister, the new French government.
11:36This is the subject of our briefing today with the guest of the major newspaper, Media Morning.
11:42For this we are live with Mr. Moustapha Tossa, political analyst and editorialist.
11:49Hello Moustapha Tossa and thank you for answering our invitation.
11:56Hello.
11:59So after more than a week of waiting, the government team of Prime Minister François Bayrou
12:07is finally known. A word on this new government.
12:13So there is an impression that dominates this morning,
12:19it is that the mountain has hung from a mouse
12:22and that the big surprise that no one expected in fact
12:26is the return of former Prime Ministers like Elisabeth Borne, like Manuel Valls.
12:32So it is true that François Bayrou had promised a government of weight,
12:38of extremely important personality in the French political scene.
12:43He went so far as to propose to the head of the French parties to join this government.
12:50But we find ourselves with returnees and it is the symphony of returnees.
12:56And that, it is not certain that it will please many,
13:00because many observers believe that this personality,
13:05precisely to which François Bayrou appealed,
13:09had already been sanctioned either by universal suffrage by elections
13:13or by a motion of censure.
13:15So there is something that is disturbing
13:18because François Bayrou appealed to qualified people,
13:24in quotation marks, of losers in front of the French.
13:27As you just mentioned, Mr. Tossa,
13:30among the main nominations of this Bayrou government
13:35is Gérald Darmanin for justice,
13:39Elisabeth Borne for national education,
13:41and Manuel Valls for foreign affairs.
13:44They are former ministers who are entering the government.
13:50How do you explain this return?
13:54So precisely, in his after-sales service,
13:58François Bayrou was the guest last night of the French television channel BFM.
14:03He tried to explain why.
14:05And he explains this by calling on people
14:13who have political experience,
14:16who have character traits,
14:18who have a political experience in France,
14:20and not just people from civil society
14:23who have never exercised political functions.
14:25So the fact of betting on experience.
14:27But even this argument does not explain everything.
14:32First of all, Manuel Valls is in a break-up with the Socialist Party.
14:38He is heavily hated by the radical left.
14:42And I think Manuel Valls is like a black rag,
14:46or rather a red rag,
14:48that François Bayrou shows in front of the left.
14:52As far as Gérald Darmanin is concerned,
14:55until the last minute,
14:57it was said that Gérald Darmanin was going to take over the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
15:00because it was the position he had wanted for years.
15:03And until the last minute, François Bayrou refused
15:07because he did not want to move his friend Jean-Noël Barreau.
15:11He kept Foreign Affairs,
15:13and so he gave justice to Gérald Darmanin.
15:17Which gives us a radical right-wing man like Bruno Routaillot inside,
15:22and a right-wing man like Gérald Darmanin at justice.
15:27And this prefigures a much more right-wing vision
15:31of the future policy of the duo Darmanin-Routaillot.
15:38So this is a little bit the impression that prevails in the face of this government.
15:44Certain personalities have retained their ministries in this government
15:50after the censorship of Michel Barnier's government.
15:54What do you think of these reconditions?
15:58Yes, it is true that there are about 19 ministers who have retained their posts.
16:05And that goes against the French opinion,
16:09for the observers, it goes against it.
16:12This means that Emmanuel Macron and François Bayrou
16:15have not learned any lesson from the various failures they have suffered recently.
16:21The governance Macron has suffered recently,
16:24namely European failures, legislative failures,
16:28a censorship against the government of Michel Barnier,
16:32and now François Bayrou.
16:35So there is another failure,
16:37and I think it is one of the most important failures François Bayrou has experienced so far.
16:42It is his inability to seduce and convince
16:46the personalities of the Socialist Party to join this government.
16:50So the Socialists explain it as follows.
16:54François Bayrou did not want to commit,
16:57promise to dismantle the retirement system reform.
17:03It was the only condition,
17:05it was one of the great conditions set by the Socialists to enter this government.
17:09And François Bayrou could not make that promise
17:12and Emmanuel Macron does not want to dismantle his assessment.
17:16And his assessment is first of all the retirement reform,
17:19which means that the socialists are not included.
17:21There are personalities related to the left,
17:23or related to socialists who are in the government,
17:26but they have no weight in parliament,
17:28and they have no weight in the galaxy of the left.
17:30François Rebzamen, who is 73 years old,
17:33who was already a first order Macronist.
17:35And Emmanuel Valls, who is no longer on the left,
17:39who is no longer considered a socialist.
17:41On the contrary, he is heavily criticized by the left.
17:45The formation of this government
17:48takes place in a very particular political and economic context.
17:55The first council of ministers of François Bayrou
17:59will take place on January 3rd.
18:02According to you, what are today the most burning issues
18:07that await the Bayrou government?
18:11The most burning issue, the most urgent,
18:14is the vote of a budget.
18:16So far, we are extending what was done last year.
18:19You have to build a budget for 2027 and vote for it.
18:24It will be one of the major priorities
18:27urgent for the Bayrou government.
18:29It must also be said that this government
18:31was born with a mini-psychodrama
18:36that played out in front of the French,
18:39especially when François Bayrou proposed
18:43a right-wing personality,
18:45Republicans like Xavier Bertrand.
18:47He proposed the Ministry of Justice the day before,
18:51and the next day he called to say
18:53I can't give you the Ministry of Justice
18:56because there is pressure from the National Assembly.
18:59And that gave the impression
19:01that this Bayrou government, like Michel Barnier,
19:04has been blackmailed,
19:06pressured by the far-right and Marine Le Pen.
19:09And it shows us that,
19:11whatever the files that will be brought up
19:13at the Council of Ministers
19:15or at the General Political Declaration on January 14th,
19:18it shows us that this government
19:20is not much different from that of Michel Barnier.
19:23It is always at the mercy of Marine Le Pen
19:26and the National Assembly,
19:28who can vote for a motion of censure
19:30with the radical left at any time
19:32of the government.
19:33It gives us an idea of the fragility
19:35of the ephemeral and provisional side
19:38that this government can experience
19:40in the next few weeks or months.
19:43Will this new government be able
19:46to find a way to reach an agreement
19:49with the Parliament,
19:51especially in the face of the opposition?
19:54There is a date that must absolutely be monitored.
19:58It is the date of January 14th.
20:02Logically, François Bayrou
20:05will make his General Political Declaration.
20:08We do not know if he will ask for confidence or not.
20:11Michel Barnier did not do it.
20:13We do not know if he will ask for a vote of confidence.
20:16If he asks for a vote of confidence,
20:18we will see who will vote for him.
20:20On the other hand,
20:22in his interview yesterday,
20:25François Bayrou promised
20:29not to appeal to the famous 49.3
20:32to pass a law that is extremely urgent.
20:35For him, he will not go to 49.3
20:38because when we say motion of censure,
20:41it means that the government appealed to 49.3.
20:44It means that he deprived parliamentarians
20:47of voting and discussion.
20:49So there is a motion of censure
20:51that is automatically applied.
20:53If the Bayrou government avoids
20:55appealing to 49.3,
20:57there is little chance that there will be a motion of censure,
21:00especially since he will try to find coalitions
21:03and therefore to benefit from this indirect support
21:06provided by the National Assembly.
21:08Nevertheless, despite all the goodwill of François Bayrou,
21:11despite the fact that we say that the National Assembly
21:14will not necessarily bring down a second government
21:17in the space of a few weeks,
21:19despite all this,
21:21there remains a structural fragility of François Bayrou
21:24who does not have a comfortable majority
21:27and absolute in parliament.
21:29He will always be at the mercy of parliamentarians,
21:32at the mercy of the political mood
21:34that will reign over parliament,
21:36and above all,
21:38at the mercy of Marine Le Pen
21:40the day she wants to bring him down.
21:42She will have the parliamentary means to bring him down.
21:47Parliament has therefore urgently voted
21:51a special law.
21:54France, the country, will have to provide
21:57a more precise budget for the year 2025.
22:02Do you think, one last time,
22:05is the shadow of a motion of potential censorship
22:10still hovering over this new government?
22:16Yes, it is true that until now,
22:18France operates with an almost automatic extension
22:23of the old budget,
22:25of the old financial law that governs France,
22:28but it does not prevent any new government
22:31from concocting,
22:33making a new budget
22:35and a new law that will govern the country.
22:38So it all depends on what François Bayrou
22:41will put in this law.
22:43Will he make concessions to the National Assembly?
22:47We remember that for the government of Barnier,
22:50it was because Michel Barnier refused
22:53to de-index pensions
22:55and he refused to make any concessions to Marine Le Pen
22:58that Marine Le Pen decided,
23:00under the pretext that she defends
23:02the purchasing power of the French,
23:04to bring him down.
23:06So the question is whether François Bayrou
23:08will make these kinds of concessions
23:10to avoid a motion of censorship and defiance.
23:12But if we want to analyze the situation,
23:15the motion of defiance,
23:17the fact of bringing down the government now,
23:19whether it is for Marine Le Pen
23:21or Jean-Luc Mélenchon,
23:23is less a question of budget
23:25than a question of agenda and political timing.
23:27Maybe Marine Le Pen will estimate
23:29that it is not necessary for her,
23:31that it is not necessary for her
23:33to bring down the government now.
23:35At some point,
23:37depending on her judicial agenda,
23:39because on March 31,
23:41we will know the decision
23:43of the French Tribunal
23:45regarding her ineligibility.
23:47So we have to follow,
23:49we have to perceive
23:51and understand this will
23:53to bring down the government
23:55on the part of the National Assembly
23:57depending on the evolution
23:59of the legal agenda at its level.
24:01Mr. Mustapha Tossa,
24:03thank you for this clarification.
24:05Thank you for all these details.
24:07I remind you that you are
24:09a political analyst and editorialist.
24:13This is the end of this edition.
24:15Thank you for following it.
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