Do the rebels have a chance of removing Emmanuel Macron?

The supporters of conflict have returned from vacation and they are making it known loudly in the Sunday Tribune with this threat aimed at the Head of State: if Emmanuel Macron does not appoint the representative designated by the New Popular Front as Prime Minister, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Manuel Bompard and Mathilde Panot want to initiate a procedure to impeach the President of the Republic.

They accuse the head of state of doing “an institutional coup against democracy” and to practice “abuse of power” by remaining deaf to the demands of the left that claims Matignon. Censoring a government that does not suit them is insufficient in the eyes of the rebels who prefer to target the head of state directly with the heavy artillery, and therefore this article 68 of the Constitution which provides that parliamentarians can revoke the President of the Republic.

But do they have a chance of achieving their goals? A priori no, because the rebels were quickly caught up by their comrades from the NFP. In their column advocating dismissal, the leaders of LFI write that “It would obviously be necessary to explain this carefully to our people”. Obviously, it would also have been necessary to start by explaining it carefully to their left-wing partners since the socialist Olivier Faure immediately replied that this initiative only involved LFI and delivered the final blow: “impeachment is impracticable” because it assumes that two-thirds of parliamentarians form a united front against the head of state. If you already remove the socialist deputies as well as the ecologists and the communists who do not seem enthusiastic either, this threat of dismissal is a waste of time and adds a new ferment of discord within the New Popular Front when they should be uniting to try to convince Emmanuel Macron to appoint Lucie Castets when the head of state receives them all on Friday.

But then why are the rebels taking this initiative, if even their allies don’t follow? To show that the rebels never lay down their arms or submit and that they are never short of ideas when it comes to tightening the political debate. And then there are undoubtedly ulterior motives behind a very hypothetical dismissal of the head of state. In the event of dismissal, there would be an early presidential election, the supreme election that Jean-Luc Mélenchon has never renounced. And the sooner it occurs, the more chances the rebel leader would have to impose himself as a candidate on the left, because so far no one has clearly emerged to replace him, while in two and a half years, who knows?