He New Popular Front which brings together the left-wing parties will appoint this week a candidate for prime minister so that he can be appointed and govern with his own program and not in coalition with the outgoing majority of the president, Emmanuel Macron.
“This week we have to be able to prepare a candidacy,” stressed the first secretary of the Socialist Party on Monday, Olivier Faurewho insisted that Macron has to admit that he has been “defeated” in the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7.
In an interview with the radio station France InfoFaure did not want to comment on who could be prime minister, beyond excluding the leader of La France Insoumise (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and pointing out that he will have to “be able to dialogue with the outside world” because the relative majority of the New Popular Front will have to be “expanded.”
The left-wing coalition that brings together La France Insoumise, the PS, the Ecologists and the French Communist Party became the first party in the legislative elections first block politician with 182 seats out of a total of 577, that is, far from the 289 necessary for an absolute majority.
The block of parties that have supported the outgoing Macron government have come in second with about 168 deputies (had 244 in the last National Assembly), while the extreme right of Marine Le Pen, Despite recording the greatest progress of all the groups, it has to be content with 143 seats (I was 89).
The LFI deputy Manuel Bompard, who is one of Mélenchon’s lieutenants, insisted that in this Sunday’s vote there are “losers” who are “Macronism and the National Rally” of Marine Le Pen, while the New Popular Front “is the first political formation in the National Assembly, the one that must govern.”
In another interview with France 2, Bombard confirmed that discussions will continue today between the formations of the left-wing coalition that will propose “a method and a name” for the prime minister so that your program is applied because “we have to respect the word we have given to the voters.”
Asked how they would implement this programme without having a majority to approve it in Parliament, the LFI MP recalled that the outgoing Macron government did not have an absolute majority either.
On that point, Faure noted that “the reality of power will be in Parliament” and that probably “majorities will have to be found text by text.”
For the socialist leader, “the Macronist camp must show responsibility” and say whether or not they are willing to join their votes in the future with those of Le Pen to overthrow a government of the New Popular Front with a motion of censure. And in this regard, he recalled that the left did not do so in the previous legislature, although it was technically possible.
The leader of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, He insisted that Macron “should officially call the NFP today to transmit to him the name of a prime minister.”
Macron announced last night that he would take his time, particularly in structuring the new National Assembly, to decide on the government that could be formed.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has announced that he will submit his resignation to the president this morning, but that he could continue in office “as long as duty demands”, especially given that France is hosting the Paris Olympic Games which begin on 26 July.
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