Emmanuel Macron would consider the constitution of a government of national unity

With a National Assembly more divided than ever, is France moving towards a transpartisan government? At the end of his meeting, Tuesday, June 21, with Emmanuel Macron, Fabien Roussel, boss of the communists, revealed that the president would have offered to join a government of national unity. An idea that he rejects, for the moment. “I don’t know if national unity is something that can be put on the agenda, so much there is distrust of the President of the Republic and his deputies (…). There has to be hear that he needs to reorient his policy”said the PCF-Nupes deputy from the North.

Same story, Wednesday June 22, for environmentalists. According to them, it is no longer up to the Élysée, but to the National Assembly to choose the country’s policy. “There is no need for a government of national unity. There is a Parliament (…), it is not at the Élysée that we should do politics, it is in the hemicycle”asserted Julien Bayou, EELV-Nupes deputy from Paris. The Insoumis are on the same line. The idea of ​​a national unity government would have been suggested to the head of state by the two other pillars of the majority, François Bayrou and Edouard Philippe. Their model is that of the government of national unity of 1945. At the end of the war, Charles de Gaulle had brought into his team all the political parties of the time.