It’s not just terrorist threats that the French authorities have to worry about ahead of the Paris Olympics. The games, which start later this month, could also be hit by crippling strikes, a leading trade unionist has warned.
Sophie Binet, leader of the CGT labour union, hinted that the Olympics could be disrupted if President Emmanuel Macron does not let a left-wing alliance govern following the ambiguous result of the July 7th legislative elections.
Binet criticised Macron’s decision to postpone the appointment of a new government as risking “plunging the country into chaos.”
The union chief said that “all of us should take part in … gatherings to keep the National Assembly under scrutiny and ensure that the people’s vote is respected”—that is, to ensure a left-wing government is appointed.
Binet added that “at this stage, we haven’t planned any strikes during the Olympics, but if Macron continues to throw petrol on to the flames…” She did not finish her sentence, but the threat of disruptive strike action during the games was clear.
Hélène de Lauzun, The European Conservative’ Paris correspondent, earlier today described the beleaguered president as being
in favour of continuing, under a different name, the centrist policy he has pursued until now, based on a relative majority with occasional support from the Left or the centre-right depending on the issue—on the Right for immigration, on the Left for societal demands such as abortion or euthanasia.
Other workers, including in the transport industry, were already preparing to strike over the Olympics amid various disputes, including over pay.
Main building of Polish Sejm and Senat complex in Warsaw, Poland Shutterstock
The Polish Parliament has rejected legislation which would have decriminalized the killing of babies in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and those suspected of having disabilities.
On July 12, Poland’s lower house narrowly voted 218 to 215 to reject the pro-abortion legislation, which sought to have Poland’s Criminal Code amended to permit abortion “if no more than 12 weeks have elapsed since the beginning of the pregnancy” or “if prenatal testing or other medical indications indicate a high probability of severe and irreversible impairment of the fetus or an incurable disease threatening its life.”
Earlier this week, Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, had declared that he would veto the bill even if it were passed by parliament – but parliament itself rejecting the bill was still met with joy from pro-lifers.
“Polish Parliament has rejected a bill to liberalize abortion,” March for Life UK co-director Isabel Vaughan-Spruce celebrated on X.
Polish Parliament has rejected a bill to liberalise abortion. They won by a margin of just 3 votes (218 v 215). Thank you to all those good politicians who stood firm on this issue – every vote counts – and may God protect Poland from the evil of abortion! pic.twitter.com/oXpA8pRg3T
— Isabel Vaughan-Spruce (@IsabelVSpruce) July 12, 2024
“Thank you to all those good politicians who stood firm on this issue – every vote counts – and may God protect Poland from the evil of abortion!” she declared.
The Polish Center for Life and Family also celebrated the decision, saying, “Each defeat of abortion projects reinforces the process of raising the level of legal protection of life in Poland, which has been going on for 31 years, aiming at the necessary provision of equal legal protection of life for every child, both before and after birth.”
“The result of today’s vote should be read first and foremost as Poland’s stand on the side of the civilization of life, which dictates that political authority should stand on the side of the weakest and most in need of help,” it declared.
Introduced in November 2023, the now-defeated legislation sought to change article 152 of Poland’s Criminal Code, which prohibits abortion and punishes those who assist in abortions, except in cases of rape or when the mother’s life is purportedly at risk.
It is important to note that these above exceptions for abortion are morally impermissible and condemned by the Catholic Church. This is because the circumstances of conception do not change the unborn baby’s innocence or humanity, and therefore society must do all it can to treat both mother and child with compassion and note the physical and psychological consequences of abortion.
With respect to abortions carried out when the mother’s life is in danger, while some emergency situations in pregnancy can necessitate treatments indirectly resulting in a child’s death, numerous medical experts attest that intentionally killing an unborn baby is never medically necessary.
If the legislation had passed, Poland, a historically Catholic country, would have seen their laws become nearly identical to those in many Western European countries.
“He shall not commit an offense who, with the consent of the woman, terminates her pregnancy if no more than 12 weeks have elapsed since the beginning of the pregnancy,” the legislation read.
“Whoever, with the woman’s consent, terminates her pregnancy if prenatal testing or other medical indications indicate a high probability of severe and irreversible impairment of the fetus or an incurable disease threatening its life shall not be punished,” it continued.
While Poland strengthened its abortion laws in favor of life in 2021, since then, the nation’s leftist Prime Minister Donald Tusk has been agitating for a liberalization of the deadly practice.
In April, Tusk pushed legislation to allow abortion on demand up until the 12th week of pregnancy, similar to many other European countries. Tusk’s goal stands in contrast with the direction Poland has headed since the collapse of communism in the nation in 1989. Beginning in the 1990s, Poland has continually introduced laws to better protect the lives of its youngest and most vulnerable.
In response to Tusk, pro-life and pro-family Poles marched in 18 different cities and towns to witness to the dignity of the unborn.
A man in Spain is alleged to have poisoned his wife and child in the midst of divorce proceedings following his declaration of a transgender identity. The court has now imposed a restraining order on the man, who has not been named, while the police investigation is ongoing.
According to Diario de Sevilla, the couple were engaged in divorce proceedings but were still sharing a home in Dos Hermanas when the suspected poisoning took place. While it has not been definitively confirmed, the motive for the divorce appears to have been the man’s decision to identify as a “woman.”
Shortly after choosing to split, the woman, whose identity has also been kept anonymous, began experiencing severe and sudden-onset stomach pain. She sought medical care and was told she was exhibiting symptoms of chemical consumption. Police quickly became involved, and an investigation was launched into what was then identified as a suspected poisoning.
Disturbingly, the couple’s 5-year-old son may have also been the victim of an attempted poisoning by his father. Medical tests are being conducted in order to verify whether he had been targeted as well.
Prosecutors speculated that the woman was poisoned by her husband using household pool care products that were mixed into her food. In response to the hypothesis, the court issued a warrant of entry to the couple’s home to gather evidence.
Yesterday, a Dos Hermanas court responsible for prosecuting violence against women heard statements from both the husband and wife, after which it decided to place a restraining order on the man. He is now required to stay 300 meters away from his wife, and has been denied contact to his son.
At the time of this writing, no arrests have been made, but police investigations are ongoing.
The case has sparked particular concern amongst Spanish women’s rights advocates, as they have noted that Spain’s exceptionally strict gender identity laws mean that, if prosecuted, the man will be treated as a “female” by the courts.
Otro maltratador autoidentificado mujer. Si el envenenamiento lo ha perpetrado tras la autoID no será considerado violencia de género. El sueño húmedo del patriarcado más rastrero hecho realidad gracias al @PSOE@PODEMOS@sumar y misóginos secuaces.https://t.co/7j8AayZ39I
Further, crimes marked as “gender-based violence” in Spain result in female victims being provided with specific legal protections and resources to assist them in the aftermath of the crime. These resources may include assistance with divorce proceedings, child custody, and housing arrangements.
If the man’s legal gender marker change was completed before the poisoning took place, it would mean that the victim would have no access to these resources because her aggressor was a “woman.”
“Gender-based violence” is also considered an aggravating factor in violent crimes, and may result in a harsher sentencing.
The situation has lead some women’s rights advocates to speculate that the man had planned to murder his wife, but that he had changed his legal gender marker just before doing so to avoid “gender-based violence” being used as an aggravating factor in the event he was caught.
Soy yo la única que piensa que este hombre tenía planificado envenenar a su mujer hasta matarla y que hizo el "cambio registral de sexo" para eludir los agravantes de género de la LIVDG si era detenido? No era que esto nunca iba a pasar?@IgualdadGobhttps://t.co/ifDBYvqLQ3
If the man is prosecuted, this would not be the first time in Spain that a male accused of domestic violence against his female partner was prosecuted as a “woman.”
As previously reported by Reduxx, a man in Catalonia who beat his female partner for opposing his transition avoided charges of gender-based violence by legally changing his identification to “female” and adopting a woman’s name just prior to being prosecuted.
The couple, who were in their 60s, had been together for 11 years, but after the man began expressing an interest in crossdressing, the woman asked to break off their intimate relationship. He became violent towards her, and began sexually and physically abusing her in retaliation for her refusal to participate in his fetish.
After seeking help with the police, the woman discovered he had already changed his legal sex marker, and thus she would not be provided any protections for female victims of male crime.
A Spanish man who abused his girlfriend for being unsupportive of his desire to grow breasts has avoided charges of gender-based violence after changing his legal sex.
The abuser has since filed a complaint against his victim for "misgendering" him.https://t.co/Ui7DC9aixy
At the time, Reduxx spoke with Núria González López, the legal advisor for the victim, who explained that “the abuser’s change of his legal sex means that, in the eyes of the law, the female in the situation is not at risk. This means the victim has fewer rights.”
In February of 2023, the Spanish government enacted what is colloquially known as the “Trans Law,” which instituted a “no questions asked” policy for those who declared they were transgender. The law also made it significantly easier for individuals to change their name and legal sex, hastening the process for applicants and removing any medical requirements.
Since the institution of the law, Spain has seen concerns right about the rise in “trans fraud,” in which males change their legal sex marker simply to gain legal or professional benefits.
In Ceuta, an extremely small Spanish autonomous city located in the North African coast, 37 male civil servants are known to have changed their registered sex in order to obtain benefits assigned to women.
Spanish men are flocking to change their gender to "female" and reap financial and legal benefits thanks to the country's new Trans Law.
One man has boasted of getting an increase in his pension as he is now legally recognized as a "mother."https://t.co/TiuwsbP6g2
Most of the men are members of the Army, the National Police, the Civil Guard, or the Local Police of the city. The men all share a pattern in that they change their legal sex marker while keeping their “male” name.
A 25-year-old woman will not soon forget this incident in a beer garden in Trabrennstraße in Vienna’s Leopoldstadt district (Krieau). A Syrian citizen is said to have threatened her with a knife. Reason: He wanted to “have her”!
The young woman told our reporter that the alleged perpetrator, a 28-year-old man, kept coming to the table where she, her mother and her grandfather were sitting. The Syrian had been asked to leave several times until he suddenly pulled out a bread knife and held it to the 25-year-old’s neck.
The courageous mother then had the presence of mind to knock the knife out of the attacker’s hand and, with the help of her grandfather, pinned him to the ground until the police arrived. The suspect was arrested on the spot and charged on suspicion of making a dangerous threat. According to the Vienna Provincial Police Directorate, he was taken to a prison after consultation with the public prosecutor’s office.
The incident took place in broad daylight on July 7, at around 8.00 pm according to the victim. The first few days after this experience were not particularly funny, the young woman described the effects of the incident. When asked whether she had any idea why the man had reached for the knife, the 25-year-old replied:
‘When he was lying on the ground, I asked him why he did it. He replied: “Because I wanted you”.
She is now very angry and warned about what can happen to you in Vienna in broad daylight, the young woman told us. The suspected perpetrator had apparently carried the bread knife in his rucksack. You never know when you might suddenly have to cut a loaf of bread somewhere….
Unbelievable scenes took place in a Viennese supermarket: three Afghans went on the rampage in a grocery shop in Meidling, shooting goods and attacking customers and employees with their fists and feet. “News from the madhouse of red Vienna!”, commented Gerald Grosz on X about the unbelievable scenes that took place in a supermarket in Vienna’s Meidling district on Thursday July 4th. A 4.27-minute mobile phone video that is currently circulating online is causing fear and anger. The video, which was made by a shocked witness on his mobile phone, was uploaded a week later, on Thursday evening. A group of three men, according to the police Afghans (22, 23 and 25), are said to have entered the grocery shop in Wolfganggasse, two of whom – for unknown reasons – first started rioting in the fruit and vegetable department and then threw goods across the room and kicked shelves. Customers tried to avoid the riot but were nevertheless drawn into it, with one user posting on the internet about the footage: “Madness. Now you have to have close combat training when shopping.” Another says: “Welcome to Vienna, the new adventure playground, where shopping becomes an adventure, everything Dadada.”
An employee bravely tried to calm the situation down again and again. A man (36) and his female partner (47) were also attacked and injured by the three Afghans, as the police confirmed to “oe24”. They first punched the 36-year-old, then threw fruit and vegetables at him. In the meantime, several vicious insults were hurled. The couple, who were chased to the checkout and beaten up there, had to be treated in hospital afterwards. The man suffered a concussion, a bloody wound and bruises, reports “oe24”.
The Vienna police arrived at the scene a few minutes after the alarm was raised. “The three suspected perpetrators were reported on suspicion of assault and damage to property. One of the three, a 23-year-old man who was apparently under the influence of alcohol, was provisionally arrested for aggressive behaviour. The motive of the men is still unclear”, police spokesman Markus Dittrich told the newspaper “Heute”.
The teenage daughter of parents residing in Geneva, Switzerland, has been separated from her family for over a year after her parents objected to her gender “transition.”
The case, currently unfolding in Swiss courts, centres on parents who responded to the mental health struggles of their daughter, who expressed “gender confusion,” with care and support, including obtaining mental health care for her.
Concerned that their daughter was being pushed to make hasty and potentially irreversible decisions, they declined “puberty blockers” and explicitly rejected her school’s attempt to “socially transition” her. The school disregarded the parents’ explicit demand.
For seeking to protect the health and wellbeing of their daughter, they now face a legal stand-off over their fundamental rights as parents to care for their child who, residing in a government shelter, is being encouraged to pursue dangerous medical interventions to “transition.”
For safety reasons and to protect their children, the parents are speaking anonymously.
The father said: “The story is truly a nightmare. Swiss authorities have taken our child, our daughter, who’s 16 years old.
“My daughter now lives in a government home. Our access to her is regulated by the government.”
The parents added: “I can’t believe we live in a society where your child can be taken away from you simply for trying to protect her.”
“We want our daughter back home. We love her and we miss her,” the girl’s mother pleaded.
Dr. Felix Boellmann, lead lawyer on the case for ADF International said: “Children who experience discomfort with their biological sex deserve to be treated with dignity and need compassionate mental health care, which these parents have gone to great lengths to provide.
“These parents are living every parent’s worst nightmare. Their child has been taken away from them simply for trying to protect her from harm.
“The implications of this are devastating not only for them as a family, but also for all of society. No society can claim to be free if parents can lose their daughter solely for affirming biological reality.”
Parents plea for reunification and reinstatement of their rights
The parents said: “As parents, we would do anything to protect our children from harm. We want the best for our kids.”
“We love them and want to raise them to be honest, kind, and self-confident adults—both our daughter and our son, each in their own way.”
“But right now, our daughter is still a minor, and she rightfully belongs in our home where we can help her navigate through life’s struggles in a way that is best for her long-term health and happiness.”
Commenting on the case, parental rights campaigner Billboard Chris said: “No child has ever been born in the “wrong body”. As parents, we have the duty to guide and protect our children as they navigate puberty – steering them away from harmful ideologies, and empowering them to feel confident in their own skin.
This chilling case exposes the troubling grip of Western authorities: trampling over the health and wellbeing of a child for the sake of an ideology, and remaining severely out of touch with the leading science – including the evidence brought forward by the recent Cass Report about the harmful impact of puberty blockers on young females. The world should pay attention: the right outcome here is significant in the fight to protect kids everywhere.”
Background and the ideological “gender unicorn”
In 2021, following other mental health concerns, the then 13-year-old told her parents that she felt her “gender identity” was male. This happened following the Covid pandemic, when she had spent a significant amount of time alone in her room and online.
The parents took their daughter to a hospital for help. After a quick 30-minute meeting with doctors, in which she was shown the ideological “gender unicorn” diagram, the doctors said their daughter may be experiencing “gender dysphoria”.
The “gender unicorn” is a controversial diagram based on the false premise that a person’s gender can change and that their gender is based on their feelings and will rather than biological reality.
The doctors told the parents their daughter should take puberty blockers, which the parents declined. They instead chose to obtain private mental health care for her.
“The story is truly a nightmare.”
During this period, the school, against the explicit wishes of the parents, began to “socially transition” the daughter. “Social transition,” as has been shown in the Cass Review, paves the way for irreversible physical interventions, such as the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical mutilation.
The parents shared with the school peer-reviewed medical and scientific literature raising serious concerns about “social transitioning.” They also shared revised government policies from the increasing number of European countries that are moving away from “gender affirmative treatment” due to growing evidence of its harms.
Following the parents’ objections to their daughter’s “transition,” the school liaised with the state child welfare agency, Service de Protection des Mineurs (SPMI), and a government-funded trans activist organisation, Le Refuge.
They convened a meeting with the parents in which the parents were accused of abuse for seeking alternative care for their daughter. The child welfare agency would later tell the parents to “just accept that you have a son.”
The daughter was separated from her parents in April 2023 following a court order placing her in a government-funded youth shelter. The trans activist organisation and child welfare agency worked to convince her that the mental health professional provided by her parents was a “transphobe”.
Because the court had transferred authority over which medical professionals she sees to the state, she was allowed to stop this care and may pursue medical interventions to physically “transition.”
Legal challenge backed by ADF International
The parents are appealing a court order, issued 28 February 2024, to hand over documents, which would allow their daughter to apply for a change of the “legal sex” in the civil register. The demand for the documentation followed the parents’ failed appeal to recover legal authority over the appointment of their daughter’s medical professionals, which had been granted to the child welfare agency by the court.
“Not only have these parents committed no wrong, they absolutely must have their child returned home and are under no obligation to consent to the authority’s demands to allow dangerous medical interventions.”- Dr. Felix Böllmann, Director of European Advocacy for ADF International
The parents are currently awaiting a decision on their appeal on the matter of the documents.
The parents seek to stop their daughter from “legally transitioning.” This would pave the way for irreversible medical interventions, such as the use of cross-sex hormones and body mutilating surgery, which would have grave consequences for her health and well-being.
Amy Gallagher
Amy Gallagher, the mental health nurse who sued the UK Tavistock Clinic, said:
“This case is terrifying. These parents have had their child taken from them by a State that is captured by gender ideology. I trust in faith and hope that the parents, with support from ADF International, will convince the legal authorities in Switzerland that this is not the path to take and the child is united with her parents swiftly. The Swiss authorities should take in to account the outcomes of the Cass Report and the increasing view that affirmation of transgenderism is dangerous. Hopefully Europe will follow NHS England in asserting the important of an evidence-base for treating children experiencing distress in relation to their biological sex.”
Switzerland in violation of international
Women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen sees “a global push to destroy families and access our children. The erasure of female language, particularly around motherhood is part of this. Mothers are the protectors of children, fathers are the protectors of families. The state does not know or love our children better than parents.
“Similar stories of state kidnap of children who have parents who recognise the harm of the quasi-religious authoritarian cult of trans have been reported in Canada, USA, Australia and I suspect many have gone unreported elsewhere.
“I have been raising the alarm for some time about this overreach. One must ask who is pushing this and why they might be doing it. Nothing I’ve come up with is anything other than malevolent.
“Parents must not sleepwalk into surrendering our most important duty, protecting our children. Trust your instincts and talk to your children.”
International law holds that a child shall not be separated from her parents against their will, except in cases of abuse.
Dr Boellmann states:“Swiss authorities are in clear violation of international and national law in separating this girl from her parents.
“Not only have these parents committed no wrong, they absolutely must have their child returned home and are under no obligation to consent to the authority’s demands to allow dangerous medical interventions.
“Further, they have the right and the duty to protect their daughter from the harms of this ideology.
“Switzerland must act now to restore this child to her parents and address the egregious overstepping on the part of the school, hospital, and child welfare agency that allowed this nightmare scenario to unfold.”
Steven Edginton, a GB News journalist who has reported on progressive ideology in the UK civil service, including transgender ideology, said:
“It is outrageous that the Swiss government has separated a child and their parents due to them objecting to the child’s wishes to ‘transition’.
“Children with mental health problems deserve love and support from their parents, not ‘affirmation’ from the state confirming their misplaced belief that they can change genders with life-changing puberty blockers and even surgery.
“The parents’ authority must trump the state over their own children, otherwise we live in a very sick society indeed. It is morally abhorrent that the Swiss authorities are attacking parental rights and pushing trans ideology on children.”
Barring a remarkable reversal, the fate Emmanuel Macron and his ultraleft allies are inflicting on France will be shared by the rest of Europe. Here’s what it is already like to go out in public as a white girl in Finland:
A group of Muslim immigrant women beat a Finnish girl in a shopping center.
On the 9th of July, the Allahabad High Court denied bail to one Shoeb Akhtar, accused of beheading a Hindu girl since she refused to convert to Islam after marrying co-accused Ajaj Ahmed, in 2020.
Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh found no compelling cause to release the accused on bail, taking into account the nature of the offence, the role assigned to applicant Shoeb Akhtar, and the stage of the trial. Notably, Shoeb Akhtar was booked by Chopan Police in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh under IPC sections 302 [punishment for murder] and 201 [causing the disappearance of evidence of an offence or giving false information to screen the offender].
According to the prosecution, accused Shoeb Akhtar decapitated Priya as she refused to convert to Islam after marrying co-accused and Akhtar’s friend Ajaj Ahmad.
As OpIndia reported back in 2020, accused Ajaj was unwilling to bring the Hindu victim to his home unless she converted to Islam. As the victim was reluctant to abandon her Hindu identity, Ajaj kept her in a rented room in the Obla area. Here, he was persistently pressuring the victim to convert to Islam. As the Hindu girl refused to convert, the angry Ajaj called upon another friend Shoeb Akhtar. The two Muslim youths carried Priya to a nearby forest area and killed her.
According to the horrifying details mentioned in the court order, the dead body of the Hindu girl with a chopped head was lying in the drain towards the forest on the western side of the road.
This is the second bail application moved by accused Shoeb Akhtar through his counsel Saurabh Pandey. He had earlier applied for bail through his counsel in January last year. The court, however, had rejected the plea then also “considering the facts that as per the postmortem report, death of the deceased was due to ante-mortem separation of neck from the body.”
The deceased victim’s sister Sharmila in her statement said that the Priya used to tell her how Ajaj Ahmad and his friend Shoeb Akhtar were pressurising her to convert to Islam even though she was not willing to do so. “Since deceased was not accepting Muslim religion, therefore she has been murdered by co-accused Ajaj Ahmad and present applicant- Shoeb Akhtar. Both the accused were apprehended together and on their disclosure, incriminating materials were recovered,” the court order reads.
Representing the State, an Additional Government Advocate opposed Akhtar’s second bail plea emphasising the gravity and heinous nature of the act and said that Ajaj gained bail by hiding the 24th January 2023 judgement that denied Shoeb’s first bail petition.
In addition, the State’s representative contended that a wrong argument was attributed to the State in the court order while granting bail to Ajaj. The Court stated in that ruling that ‘it is admitted fact that applicant is in jail since the last eight and a half years’.
The court found merit in the State’s argument that the court overlooked the order of rejection of the first bail plea filed by Shoeb Akhtar while granting bail to Ajaj Ahmad in October 2023.
“I also find substance in the submission of learned Additional Government Advocate that while passing the order dated 05.10.2023 of co-accused as noted above, the order dated 24.01.2023 has not been taken into consideration and wrong period of detention of the accused- Ajaj Ahmad @ Asif has been mentioned as noted above. Considering the gravity of offence, role assigned to the accused-applicant and the stage of trial, I do not find any good ground to release the applicant on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is rejected,” the court order reads.
Images: Excerpts taken from the Allahabad High Court’s order dated 9th July
Therefore, considering the gravity of the crime, the Court considered it appropriate to reject Shoeb Akhtar’s second bail application.
The court ordered Superintendent of Police, Sonbhadra, to ensure the presence of all remaining prosecution witnesses on the next trial date. Notably, out of 25 prosecution witnesses, 9 prosecution witnesses have already been examined before the trial court so far. The court also ordered the trial court to expedite the trial without granting adjournment for either side.
Slovakia’s minister for culture blamed the LGBT movement for Europe’s plummeting birth rates, arousing the ire of left-leaning ideologues.
During a July 3 interview with Slovak tabloid Topky.sk, Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová blamed LGBT ideologies for Europe’s dropping fertility rates.
“We heterosexuals are creating the future because we make babies. Europe is dying out, babies are not being born, because of the excessive number of LGBTQ+ (people). And the strange thing is (that it’s happening) with the white race,” the minister said in comments cited by left-liberal news outlet Politico.
“We are living in an amoral era,” Šimkovičová elaborated.
In response to Šimkovičová’s July 3 comments, Peter Weisenbacher, director of the Bratislava-based Human Rights Institute, lodged a criminal complaint with the general prosecutor’s office against the minister, alleging that her remarks were racist and anti-Semitic.
In January, Šimkovičová revealed that the country’s culture ministry would cease financing LGBT projects.
“The LGBTI+ organizations (…) will no longer parasitize on the money from the culture department. I will certainly not allow it under my leadership,” Šimkovičová wrote on Facebook.
She added that she “rejects progressive normalization” and that her plans are for “a return to normality.”
Besides her anti-LGBT views, Šimkovičová has been noted for her tough stance on immigration, much to the chagrin of the globalist elites in the European Union (EU) and their ideological allies. To address the issue of Slovakia’s falling population, the EU elites have suggested bringing in migrants instead of encouraging Slovak families to have children.
Deputy Speaker of Parliament Andrej Danko from the junior coalition partner Slovak National Party said recently that Slovakia’s Culture Ministry will no longer bankroll movies with “themes crossing moral and ethical boundaries, including LGBTQ+,” Politico added.
According to Macrotrends data, the current birth rate for Slovakia in 2024 is 9.677 births per 1,000 people, a 1.39% drop from a year earlier.
Šimkovičová is not the only Slovak politician to support her nation’s families and thus reap the left-wing whirlwind. Since his fourth stint as Slovakia’s prime minister in October 2023, incumbent Robert Fico has also been vilified by the pro-LGBT EU for his pro-family values, his anti-war stance with regard to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, and his sovereigntist approach to governance.
He has also nearly been killed. In May, Fico was shot and gravely wounded in what Slovak officials portrayed as a “politically motivated” assassination attempt in the town of Hándlova, based on media reports. Observers like Slovakia Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok have since noted that Fico’s shooter, Juraj Cintula, did not commit the crime alone. There is evidence that “the crime may have been committed by a certain group of people” as Cintula’s online “communication history” was deleted merely two hours after his failed attempt on Fico’s life. While Fico fortunately survived, his health has been seriously undermined, according to Slovakia Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Robert Kaliňák.
“His health is still far from ideal. After a gunshot wound to the abdomen, those organs don’t work the way they did when you were 17 or 30. It’s still very erratic. As part of his regular rehab, doctors are doing everything they can to make sure he can do his job to his full potential, and we’re getting close to that,” Kaliňák was cited by the Euronews news portal as saying.
Following the ambiguous result of the legislative elections on July 7th, which sent three opposing blocs to the French National Assembly without any of them achieving a sufficient majority to govern, President Emmanuel Macron published a lengthy “Letter to the French” on Wednesday, July 10th. In it, he explained that he was postponing the appointment of a new government and hoped in the long term to rely on a “plural” compromise majority.
After congratulating himself on the high turnout in the legislative elections—as proof that the French are not losing interest in politics—the president attempted to decipher the messages contained in the election results: a far-right that came out on top in the first round (but he fails to specify that it also came first in terms of number of votes in the second round), which, he claims, the French refused to bring to power (mainly because of the voting system that favours alliances and withdrawals).
Macron then insisted on the existence of “republican forces”—a term covering all political parties except the Rassemblement National (RN) and the extreme Left—that he wants to believe could form an absolute majority by banding together. He is thus clearly closing the door on the demands of the New Popular Front (NFP) to form the government. The NFP, an alliance between all the left-wing and far-left parties, won the most seats and therefore considers itself to be the most legitimate to form the new government—even though it won only 7 million votes and has made virtually no progress in terms of seats since the previous election.
The head of state then called on “all the political forces to engage in sincere and loyal dialogue in order to build a solid majority, necessarily a plural one, for the country.” He refuses to see the ‘Republican Front’ as a negative political project—i.e., rejecting the RN—and instead wants to see it as the matrix for a new centrist policy: “What the French people have chosen at the ballot box—the Republican Front, the political forces must put into practice through their actions,” he explained.
He is therefore in favour of continuing, under a different name, the centrist policy he has pursued until now, based on a relative majority with occasional support from the Left or the centre-right depending on the issue—on the Right for immigration, on the Left for societal demands such as abortion or euthanasia.
Under this roadmap, the president has not yet chosen the next prime minister: “Until then, the current government will continue to exercise its responsibilities and will then be in charge of current affairs,” he explained in the letter.
Macron’s letter has been greeted with a great deal of scepticism by the entire French political class, which highlights the president’s disconnection from the seriousness of the issues at stake.
Within his own camp, some ministers are calling for a clean break and an end to the current government. Left-wing parties are accusing the president of wallowing in “denial” and refusing to accept his defeat. They describe his governance as “brutal” and “arrogant.”
The RN is equally critical. Marine Le Pen denounced Macron’s actions as an “outrageous circus,” and the cynicism of Emmanuel Macron’s game with the Left:
“If I understand correctly, in his letter, Emmanuel Macron proposes to block LFI, which he helped to elect three days ago,” she quipped on X.
Si je comprends bien, dans sa lettre, Emmanuel Macron propose de faire barrage à LFI qu’il a contribué à faire élire il y a trois jours et grâce à qui les députés Renaissance ont été élus, il y a également trois jours… Ce cirque devient indigne.
