Macron informs political groups of his intention to name prime minister in 48 hours

MADRID Dec. 10 () –

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, plans to appoint Michel Barnier’s replacement as head of Government in the next 48 hours, a time horizon that he conveyed this Tuesday to the political interlocutors with whom he has met to try to weave a network. of support more solid than that of the previous Executive, deposed in a motion of censure.

Macron already advanced on Thursday, in a speech to the nation, that he would make the name known in a matter of “days”, thus implying that he would not wait weeks as he did after the legislative elections in July. This Tuesday he limited the times to clarify that he will take the step “in 48 hours”, according to sources consulted by France info, ‘Le Parisien’ and BFM TV.

The president has once again met at the Elysée with socialists, environmentalists and communists, after once again leaving La Francia Insumisa (LFI) out. The previous presidential candidate of the latter party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has lamented on social networks that his colleagues from the New Popular Front (NFP) are willing to “negotiate with the right.” “A return to the past,” he added.

The leader of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, has once again appealed to the political “advantage” of the left, the bloc with the most seats in the National Assembly, to ask Macron for a gesture. “We demand that the prime minister be left-wing,” Faure stressed in statements to the media.

THE ULTRA RIGHT, ABSENT

The president renounced entrusting the leadership of the Government to the left after the previous elections with the argument that he would not hold out against the opposition, but in the current round of contacts he has built bridges with this political family to the detriment of the extreme right.

The leader of the National Rally in the Assembly, Marine Le Pen, has lamented Macron’s “contempt”, although she has said that this implies that the president is granting them “the opposition medal”. Thus, he wanted to distinguish himself from what he described as a “single party.”