Hollande accuses Macron of “institutional failure” for not appointing a left-wing prime minister

The former French president François Hollande accuses the current head of state, Emmanuel Macron, of having committed “an institutional fault” for not having appointed Lucie Castets, the left’s candidate, as Prime Minister.

“It was not up to the president to ‘censor’ Lucie Castets’s communist stance,” said the current socialist deputy in an interview published this Wednesday by the weekly The Point.

That work “it corresponds to the National Assembly” Once the deputies have heard the declaration of the programme and the composition of the Government by the head of the Executive, he added.

Macron meets with top conservative party officials on Wednesday The Republicanswithin its second round of political consultations to try to find a way out of the complex puzzle created by the result of the legislative elections, which left the National Assembly without a viable majority.

But the president has not called for this round of yesterday and today even the extreme right of Marine Le Pen (RN) nor to the radical left of The Insoumise France (LFI).

As Macron refused to appoint Castets as prime minister, the rest of the left-wing parties that together with LFI make up the New Popular Front (NFP), the socialist, the communist and the environmentalist, refused to go to the Elysée.

For this reason, the president only plans to meet today with the leaders of LR, after having done so yesterday with the centrist leader. François Bayrouone of its main allies, and with the leaders of the parliamentary group LIOT, which brings together 22 independent centrist, regionalist and nationalist deputies of the National Assembly.

RN spokesperson, Laurent Jacobelliaccused the president, on public radio FranceInfo, of practicing “a partial democracy” by excluding his party, which had 11 million voters in the last legislative elections.

Constitutionalist and political scientist Benjamin Morel criticized Macron because in these new consultations “he excludes groups that he does not like and He tries to build a majority himself“In no parliamentary system is it the president who does this,” he told Europe 1 radio.

France is in a an unprecedented situation in several decadeswith the Government in office for more than a month, a very divided National Assembly and crossed threats of immediate motion of censure between the various political groups in the event that the others form a minority Government.

The Minister of Culture, Rachida Datawho comes from LR, once again bet today on “creating a field of understanding” to form a coalition between the Macronist bloc and the conservative right, which could reach “the social democrats”, something that would require a break-up of the Socialist Party.