Gabriel Attal is “the leader of a presidential minority”, judges LFI deputy Eric Coquerel

Eric Coquerel reacts to the “action pact” proposed by Gabriel Attal to the parliamentary groups except for France Insoumise and the National Rally.

Gabriel Attal is “the leader of a presidential minority who must realize at some point that they have been defeated“, attack, Wednesday August 14, Éric Coquerel, LFI deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis, president of the finance committee of the Assembly, guest of franceinfo.

Eric Coquerel finds “a little strong coffee” that Gabriel Attal excluded LFI from his “action pact”, This letter was sent on Monday by the resigning Prime Minister to the parliamentary groups, except those of France Insoumise, the National Rally and its allies. “The ‘neither-nor’ is what allowed the RN to become commonplace for several years, and allowed it to progress”recalls Éric Coquerel. However, according to the LFI deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis, Gabriel Attal “interrupted it because it was necessary to block the RN“, And “Now all of a sudden, we’re going back to this harmful strategy”.

In any case, judges Eric Coquerel, “all this is totally useless” since “Gabriel Attal is no longer the Prime Minister or the leader of a majority, even a relative one.” He believes that “It’s not up to them [le camp présidentiel] to decide to gather around them.” Eric Coquerel recalls the results of the legislative elections and the victory of the coalition of left-wing parties, the New Popular Front: “There is one force that came out on top, even if Mr Macron denies it, it is the NFP, which has a relative majority in the Assembly, as Mr Macron’s majority previously had.”

However, the elected Insoumis marks a difference with the way the NFP would exercise power in the Assembly if Emmanuel Macron ever agreed to appoint Lucie Castets to Matignon: “We will not do what Emmanuel Macron did for 2 years, who sought no compromise, no agreement,” assures the LFI deputy. On this subject, he promises that the NFP is willing to “discuss about [son] program, at certain times, to have majorities.”

“Not accepting universal suffrage is not only undemocratic, but it also leads to a dead end,” concludes Éric Coquerel who asks Emmanuel Macron to respect the verdict of the ballot boxes. “He better let us govern, because he’s going to try to force it through the Assembly, and he won’t succeed.”he predicted.