Will a name be chosen at the end of the discussions? More than six weeks after the second round of the legislative elections on July 7, Emmanuel Macron has still not appointed a new Prime Minister. Faced with a National Assembly without an absolute majority, the Head of State invited the heads of parliamentary groups and party leaders to the Elysée Palace on Friday, August 23 and Monday. The representatives of the New Popular Front (NFP), the first bloc of deputies in the Assembly, will open the ball at 10 a.m. in the company of Lucie Castets, their candidate for Matignon.
Laurent Wauquiez’s right will present itself in the afternoon. The leader of the National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, and the party boss Jordan Bardella, will be received on Monday at 10 am. Follow our live broadcast.
Lucie Castets and the NFP claim to “be able to form a government”In a letter addressed to the French people on Thursday, the senior civil servant and the four NFP party leaders accuse “the President of the Republic [de tergiverser] rather than drawing the consequences of these elections”judging his lack of action “serious and harmful“. Lucie Castets and the political leaders propose to find a “an unprecedented way of governing under the Fifth Republic.”
Emmanuel Macron will appoint a Prime Minister “following these consultations”. This is what the Elysée announced to the press on Friday, August 16. For the moment, the president has not deviated from his words expressed in his letter sent to the French people on July 10, in which he called on the political forces to reach an agreement. He also rejected the candidacy of Lucie Castets upon her nomination by the NFP on July 23.
A fragmented National Assembly without a clear majority. The second round of the legislative elections of July 7th produced a hemicycle where no party reached the absolute majority of 289 seats. The NFP parties are in the lead with 193 seats, followed by the former presidential majority (166 seats), the RN and its allies from Ciott (142) and Les Républicains (47). A configuration that greatly complicates the establishment of a coalition.