{"id":309009,"date":"2017-05-20T09:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T08:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/french-media-political-parties-hush-up-ps-governments-coup-plan\/"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:02:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T08:02:41","slug":"french-media-political-parties-hush-up-ps-governments-coup-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/french-media-political-parties-hush-up-ps-governments-coup-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"French media, political parties hush up PS government\u2019s coup plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>French media, political parties hush up PS government\u2019s coup plan<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Alex Lantier<br \/>\n    <br \/>20 May 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Major French media and political parties continued their silence Friday on the extraordinary report in Thursday\u2019s edition of <em>L<\/em><em>\u2019<\/em><em>Obs<\/em> magazine, which revealed that the outgoing Socialist Party (PS) government planned a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat if National Front (FN) candidate Marine Le Pen, rather than PS-backed candidate Emmanuel Macron, had won the May 7 presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>Plans were made for a major police mobilization to crush anti-fascist protests, and to break the usual electoral protocol and force Le Pen to accept a PS prime minister. As a top state official told <em>L<\/em> <em>\u2019<\/em> <em>Obs<\/em>, \u201cThe country would have been totally shut down. The government would have had only one priority: ensuring the security of the state.\u201d That is, while the PS would have effectively suspended the usual parliamentary forms of rule in France, the goal was to keep Le Pen in power and crush opposition from the left.<\/p>\n<p>The deafening silence on the story, coupled with the absence of official denials of its contents is the clearest indication that <em>L<\/em><em>\u2019<\/em><em>Obs<\/em> report, based on information from multiple anonymous, high-level sources in the PS, is essentially correct.<\/p>\n<p>The material in the story indicates that PS officials are willing to suspend parliamentary procedures and install a dictatorship via a coup by intelligence and police officials to crush mass protests. This is not just a hypothetical about what would have happened had Le Pen won on May 7: demonstrations are expected to erupt against Macron\u2019s plans to unilaterally slash wages and contracts using the PS labour law, and to restore the draft. The question that is posed is whether the new Macron administration is preparing to use such methods against the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/05\/20\/lobs-m20.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 French media, political parties hush up PS government\u2019s coup plan By Alex Lantier 20 May 2017 Major French media and political parties continued their silence Friday on the extraordinary report in Thursday\u2019s edition of L\u2019Obs magazine, which revealed that the outgoing Socialist Party (PS) government planned a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat if National Front (FN) candidate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}