President Emmanuel Macron has summoned all French political leaders this Tuesday, except for the far-right Marine Le Pen and the leftist Jean-Luc Melenchonto seek a way out of the crisis that the country is experiencing since the motion of censure that overthrew the prime minister, Michel Barnier.
The joint meeting takes place after having received all the parties separately, a round of contacts that ended this Monday with the environmentalists. Previously, regionalists and independents and communists had paraded through the Elysée, while last Friday it was the turn of macronists, socialists and conservatives.
Excluding the two extremes of the parliamentary arc, Macron seeks to find a government of moderates that can find the parliamentary stability that Barnier did not have, at a time when the country faces a complex financial situation, with a skyrocketing deficit and public debt by the clouds With this decision, The president changes his strategy compared to last summerwhen he ended up appointing the conservative Barnier as prime minister after having only made individual consultations, without prior agreements.
It remains to be seen how many parties will attend the call, since both socialists, environmentalists and communists had appealed for the ‘Melenchonistas’ to also be there, despite the fact that they refused to attend the bilateral meeting with Macron. The objective is now to find a minimum program that will allow the legislature to be unblocked five months after the early legislative elections that resulted in a National Assembly without absolute majorities and with three large blocs that are difficult to reconcile.
In the lead is the left alliance with 190 deputies, followed by the ‘Macronistas’ with 166 and in third place the extreme right with 141, despite the fact that they were the most voted with 11 million votes. In fourth place, with 47 seats, was the conservative right, Barnier’s party, which, associated with the ‘Macronists’ and with the tacit support of Le Pen, aspired to carry out some budgets, before the far-right leader decided to overthrow it last day. 4 together with the left.
If he manages to push through a pact between moderates, It would have 166 Macronists, 66 socialists, 47 conservatives, 38 environmentalists, 21 regionalists and 17 communists. In total, 349 supports, well above the 289 that mark the absolute majority, which would give stability to the Executive, at least until new legislative elections can be called again in the summer.
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