It’s the start of the political year. Several left-wing parties are holding their summer days on Saturday, August 24. These gatherings come as Emmanuel Macron began consultations on Friday with a view to appointing a Prime Minister. After the NFP, which came to demand Matignon in tight ranks around its candidate Lucie Castets, the president received representatives of the central bloc and those of LR. The head of state will meet on Monday with the RN and Eric Ciotti, as well as with the presidents of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, and of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet. It is not “not excluded“that these consultations will continue on Tuesday, depending on the outcome of these initial discussions, according to the Élysée. Follow our live coverage.
Communists, environmentalists, rebels… The summer days of several left-wing parties continue on Saturday. Lucie Castets is expected on Saturday at the Amfis d’été of La France insoumise for a “major interview”. On Sunday, it is Laurent Wauquiez, who will make his political comeback, at Mont Mézenc, according to his tradition, after announcing that he was leaving the presidency of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, as required by the law on the non-accumulation of mandates.
A “rich” discussion between the leaders of the New Popular Front. “Lucid”Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that voters had expressed “the wish for a change of political direction” during the last legislative elections, reported Lucie Castets Friday at the end of the interview with representatives of the New Popular Front with the President of the Republic at the Elysée. But the NFP candidate for Matignon deplored the “temptation” of the head of state of “compose his government”.
The central bloc and Laurent Wauquiez’s LR would “immediately vote for a motion of censure” against a government including LFI. Received on Friday after the NFP, the presidential camp and the right showed their refusal to see ministers from La France Insoumise enter the government. A de facto rejection of a hypothetical Castets government, the latter having affirmed that it would appoint ministers from all the components of the New Popular Front in the event of entry into Matignon.
Emmanuel Macron could speak on Monday evening. The head of state could speak as early as Monday evening, several participants in the consultations held at the Elysée Palace told France Télévisions. However, he has given himself until Wednesday evening, before the Paralympic Games, to decide, according to an NFP participant.