Several French left-wing parties will not attend the new round of consultations announced by the president for this Tuesday Emmanuel Macronafter he refused to name his candidate as prime minister, Lucie Castets.
Socialists and environmentalists announced today their refusal to participate in the consultations, which is in line with the Elysée Palace’s plan not to convene the more radical La France Insoumise (LFI).
“I refuse to be an accomplice to a parody of democracy,” said the first secretary of the Socialist Party this morning, Olivier Faurein an interview on France 2.
“What is really happening (.,.) is that (Macron) does not want the program to be applied New Popular Frontthat we repeal last year’s pension reform,” he added.
Faure said Macron’s refusal to name a prime minister from the political bloc that won the most seats in the recent legislative elections was “a democratic problem.”
The general secretary of the environmental party EELV, Marine Tondelieraccused Macron of embarking on “an illiberal drift” by refusing to hand over the keys to the government to the political bloc with the most seats in the National Assembly.
Tondelier announced that they will call “mobilizations” protests, although he stressed that they would be “peaceful,” he told public radio FranceInfo.
Castets herself acknowledged feeling “angry” because the president called early elections “without consulting, something that nobody understood,” and more than a month later “he tells the French that it was useless, that they voted wrongly,” she said on FranceInter radio.
The Elysée announced late on Monday evening that, following the end of political consultations with the leaders of the main parliamentary parties, Macron would not appoint Castets and would resume meetings with the formations.
However, Elysée sources have specified that neither the LFI nor the far-right of Marine Le Pen and her allies – considered outside the Republican umbrella – would be invited to the new round.
One of Macron’s main allies, the leader of the centrist MoDem party, François Bayrou, said that the current situation “it’s not a complete blockade”.
Bayrou justified Macron’s rejection of a left-wing prime minister by saying that, according to the presidential camp, the NFP coalition’s programme is actually that of the LFI.
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