Jul 22. () –
The candidate for Prime Minister of France proposed by the Socialist Party and other members of the New Popular Front (NFP), Laurence Tubiana, announced this Monday that she is giving up her aspirations to lead the French Executive in the face of “opposition” within the progressive coalition, specifically from La France Insoumise, led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“I was touched by the support I received during the week. I would like to thank everyone for their energy and kindness (…) I note that my name has met with opposition within the NFP. All this no longer seems to me to lead to the appeasement we so desperately need. I take note of this,” Tubiana said in a statement posted on her social networks.
Tubiana has therefore stated that she will return to “the struggles” that she has always defended, such as the social and climate emergency, and has expressed her desire that the French left be able to “take advantage of the circumstances to respond to the concerns of the French people”, even more so at a time when “the extreme right is on the verge of power”.
“Now more than ever is the time to get involved. I do not believe for a second in the myth of the providential woman or man. It is from there, from citizen commitment, that solutions are born. It is possible and necessary to do politics in a different way, through dialogue and cooperation with all the components of society,” he claimed.
Finally, Tubiana stressed his conviction that the left “has the duty and the ability to exercise the responsibilities” that voters have granted it after the last legislative elections, in which the New Popular Front emerged as the most voted alternative ahead of the Macronist bloc and the ultra-nationalist National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen.
Last week, French socialists, communists and ecologists put forward Tubiana’s name as their candidate for prime minister. The economist and diplomat’s proposal did not, however, gain the support of Mélenchon’s party, who saw in her a figure close to the ideas of French President Emmanuel Macron, who in the past had offered her the leadership of a ministry.
The left-wing parties are having trouble agreeing on a candidate for prime minister. The Socialists and La France Insoumise accuse each other of imposing cross-vetoes, while the other members of the coalition are advocating an agreement that did exist to present a candidate for the presidency of the National Assembly, which will ultimately be held by the Macronist Yaël Braun-Pivet.
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