“Massive withdrawal maneuvers have deprived us of an absolute majority: this is only a postponement, because we cannot indefinitely distort national representation,” warns Marine Le Pen from the National Assembly, where her party’s deputies are returning to office on Wednesday, July 10. She denounces the “republican front” that was exercised against the extreme right in the second round of the legislative elections. With 143 deputies, the RN has become the third political force in the country, just behind Ensemble (163 seats) and the New Popular Front (182). “Today we find ourselves in a quagmire, because no one is able to know from what rank the Prime Minister will come”gets annoyed the one who was elected in the first round in Hénin-Beaumont (Pas-de-Calais). Follow our live.
“The French do not want to see the New Popular Front program implemented,” assures Aurore BergéThis is what the Minister in charge of Equality between women and men assured on the set of “4 Vérités” on France 2. The one who was re-elected as a deputy in the 10th constituency of Yvelines at the end of the second round of the legislative elections says she is in favor of a coalition “from the central block” and believes that a Prime Minister from the La France Insoumise party would be “a red line”. “We will table a motion of censure if this is the case,” warns the minister.
Edouard Philippe in favor of “a technical agreement” with Les Républicains. “Today, there is the New Popular Front, it has 182 deputies. But there is another bloc, in the centre, composed of Renaissance, MoDem, Horizons, and LR. Which is not a constituted bloc, I recognise, but which, if we take it as a whole, has 220 deputies, therefore more than the New Popular Front”developed theformer Prime Minister and president of Horizons on TF1.
LR claims Matignon to “put a stop to LFI”. “The government must be led by someone from the Republicans, so that there is a real change in the country,” insisted Xavier Bertrand on Tuesday, on the set of “L’Evenement” on France 2. According to the president of Hauts-de-France, this solution would make it possible to “put a stop to LFI” who also claims Matignon. In an interview with Figarothe former leader of the right-wing deputies, Olivier Marleix, also believes that “President Macron should appoint a Prime Minister from the Republicans”.
The New Popular Front says it is ready to govern “tomorrow”In a joint statement, the four political parties of the NFP called on the President of the Republic, urging him to “immediately turn to the New Popular Front to allow it to form a government”. “From tomorrow, we are ready to govern our country to implement the program of the New Popular Front” And “excluding any unnatural coalition (…)”they add.