“Building coalitions takes much longer than a few weeks,” assures Minister Aurore Bergé

The President of the Republic, who is taking his time to appoint a new Prime Minister, will receive the heads of the various political parties from Friday.

The resigning Minister Delegate for Equality between Women and Men and the Fight against Discrimination, a guest on France Inter on Thursday August 22, said she understood that Emmanuel Macron was taking time to find “a majority” who will not be “censored immediately” in order to avoid “political instability”. “Building coalitions takes much longer than a few weeks”said Aurore Bergé.

This unprecedented situation in France, where the government from before the early legislative elections is still in place, 46 days after the second round, is understandable according to Aurore Bergé, in order to find the right coalition. “It can last for monthsshe said, In some cases, it can even last for years. This has never been the case in France, because we have never had this political configuration in the National Assembly in France, where no one today is able to say: ‘I have a majority all by myself’.”

According to the MP (Ensemble!) for Yvelines, there is “only one question” that the President of the Republic will pose to the presidents of the parliamentary groups and the party presidents on Friday and Monday at the Élysée: “If no one is able to have an absolute majority, […] “Do you last more than 48 hours?” Aurore Bergé thinks, for example, that it is impossible to form a government with elected representatives from La France Insoumise (LFI), “It is to expose oneself to immediate censorship”she assures. “The central bloc said it, the right said it. They (the elected representatives of the New Popular Front) know that they will not hold out for more than 24 hours with members of La France Insoumise among them.”

This is why, according to the deputy of the presidential majority, the matter is difficult for the President of the Republic, because he is facing a “risk, permanent political and institutional instability, I do not believe that this is what the French want. The President of the Republic is the guarantor of the unity, order and stability of the country.”