On the left, it’s a day of back-to-school in a scattered manner but with Lucie Castets as a common thread. The candidate of the New Popular Front for the post of Prime Minister is preparing, on Thursday, August 22, to speak at the Ecologists-EELV summer university in Tours (Indre-et-Loire), alongside the party’s national secretary, Marine Tondelier. The 37-year-old senior civil servant is especially expected tomorrow by Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysée, in the company of the leaders of left-wing parties and parliamentary groups. She will then go to Montpellier (Hérault) to meet the communists before participating, on Saturday in Valence (Drome), in the back-to-school of the rebels. Follow our live broadcast.
In Valencia, the rebels make their Amfis. La France insoumise is also launching its summer university on Thursday in Valence, with a speech by MP Danièle Obono. The party continues to oppose the idea of discussing with parties outside the New Popular Front but which contributed to the blockade against the National Rally, in order to govern despite a divided Assembly: “CIt will be without us, we will never do that”hammered home the leader of the rebellious deputies, Mathilde Panot, on Tuesday, on France Inter.
Meetings with Emmanuel Macron are approaching. The President of the Republic will meet with the leaders of the New Popular Front on Friday, before those of the right and then the far right on Monday. These consultations, he promised, precede the appointment of the new Prime Minister, a month and a half after the second round of the legislative elections.
Summer universities scattered until September. The socialists will close the ball on the left, meeting from August 29 in Blois (Loir-et-Cher), also in the presence of Lucie Castets. The other political parties have set dates in September, like the UDI in Amiens (Somme) on September 13 and 14, and the elected representatives of the republican right, who chose Aix-les-Bains and Annecy (Savoie), before the MoDem, at the end of September. Renaissance organizes its return to school during its “parliamentary days”, on September 10 and 11 in Yvelines, while the organization of a rally by the RN remains uncertain.