“It is not up to the President of the Republic to censor in advance,” maintains François Ruffin.

The former rebel accuses Emmanuel Macron of being behind the current “blockage”, Friday on France Bleu Picardie.

“It is not up to the President of the Republic to censor in advance”supports Friday August 30 on France Bleu Picardie François Ruffin, deputy “Picardie Debout” of the Somme, while Emmanuel Macron has rejected the candidacy of Lucie Castets to Matignon, invoking a need for institutional stability. François Ruffin criticizes this argument on the part of “the man who throws a grenade at the parties’ legs”.

The former rebel, who sits with the Ecologists in the National Assembly, accuses Emmanuel Macron of being at the origin of the “blockage” current. He considers in fact that “censorship can be exercised with regard to the government of Lucie Castets, but it is up to the Assembly to censure.”

François Ruffin refuses the appointment of a “technical government”. He believes that this would amount to having “a very political government that proposes to make cuts in the budgets of the ministries of Education, Labor and Ecology”. In his words, this would amount to giving this technical government “a kind of hatchet for making cuts everywhere.” The left-wing elected official is instead arguing for an executive from the New Popular Front, which emerged “majority” early legislative elections.

“Let us reach out to the majority group in the Assembly, let us see if it is capable of presenting measures that find a majority in the country and in the Assembly”he says.

The “Picardie Debout” MP is making his political comeback on Saturday in Flixecourt, a historically left-wing stronghold where the National Rally is now asserting itself. This choice of location is not insignificant and is part of a desire to reconquer rural territories. Indeed, François Ruffin notes that if “The left is strong in the metropolises, working-class neighborhoods and among educated youth”she is also “largely beaten as soon as you move away from the cities“.

However, for the Picardy elected official, “Field work is not enough” to convince voters. He assures that it is also necessary to “a national discourse that seeks to speak to the entire country”. “For two years, we have had a left that has held a discourse that speaks to one end of the country and not to the whole country”he regrets.