“Dear friends, the unity of our group is very important but unity (like life as a couple 😉 cannot be decreed: it is built every day…” Gérald Darmanin sent a text message to Renaissance MPs on Friday, July 12, while the party leaders met at the Elysée around Emmanuel Macron. “Elections within the group However, they do not in any way solve the two major problems that we face. : our political line”neither “the functioning of the party and the necessary representation of territories and sensitivities”, writes the Minister of the Interior, re-elected as a deputy in the North and ultimately not a candidate for the presidency of the group. The group of the presidential camp must elect its president on Saturday, between 9 a.m. and noon, by electronic vote. Gabriel Attal is the only one to be officially a candidate for the presidency of the Renaissance group. Follow our live feed.
The PCF proposes Huguette Bello as Prime Minister. In an attempt to unblock discussions on the name of a common personality on the left for the post of Prime Minister, the communists proposed the name Huguette Bello, president of the regional council of La Réunion. “We are really in favour of exploring the Huguette Bello track. She has all the assets. A woman, overseas, experienced, a local elected official, a parliamentarian for twenty-three years, a lot of authority. This will allow us to get out of the sterile deadlock of the last few days. She was proposed by Fabien Roussel, La France insoumise seems in favour of it.”, confirms to franceinfo a member of the French Communist Party (PCF).
The “purged” of La France Insoumise create their association. “We, the insurgents, have decided to take matters into our own hands and contribute to the gathering of the left and the ecologists being able to grow and win in the country”said MP Clémentine Autain, during a press conference with the MPs and ex-MPs “purged” from La France Insoumise, in Bagnolet (Seine-Saint-Denis), on Friday. They are creating their association, called L’Après, and wish “launch a process of building a new political force” And “cementing the New Popular Front to change policy in our country.”
For Marine Tondelier, it is “normal that things take time”. “We are in a very atypical situation, we are building a coalition in a French institutional culture that has never worked like this”explained the national secretary of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, on BFMTV, stressing that this took “a month and a half” to form a government in Denmark and “more than two months” in Germany.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon still in the race for Matignon. “O“We are trying to find a government team, not just a prime minister.”clarified on franceinfo on Friday the deputy La France insoumise (LFI) Antoine Léaument. This close friend of Jean-Luc Mélenchon stressed that the former presidential candidate was not out of the game. “It is logical that someone who has prepared to exercise power as President of the Republic should be among the candidates to be Prime Minister.”