Discussions continue on the left. The head of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, requested a meeting with party leaders on Sunday 14 July. “as quickly as possible” to go out “from above the current deadlock situation”The New Popular Front, which came out on top in the second round of the legislative elections, is demanding to form the government, which Emmanuel Macron refuses, for whom “nobody took it away” during this election. “It’s not my name, the question. (…) The question that is asked is how we find [un candidat pour Matignon]“, assured the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, guest of “4 truths” on France 2. He mentioned “maybe someone from outside”inviting left-wing forces to turn to a person of “Civil society “, “which will allow us to move forward together”. Follow our live stream.
Clémence Guetté deplores the “successive vetoes” of the PS. Invited to the TF1 morning show, the LFI MP says she still doesn’t understand “Why [Huguette] Bello was not a good candidate.” She also accused former National Assembly President Yaël Braun-Pivet of “to swindle” with the National Rally and accused Emmanuel Macron of shutting himself away In “an authoritarian drift”.
LFI met. La France Insoumise brought together its authorities by videoconference on Sunday midday to “analyze the significance of the constant blockages of the Socialist Party against any candidacy other than that of its first secretary, Olivier Faure.”
Huguette Bello declines the “offer” for Matignon. The president of the Réunion region has declined the offer to become Prime Minister on behalf of the New Popular Front, ending 48 hours of speculation. The PS had refused on Saturday to support the Reunion Islander as a candidate for the post of Prime Minister, pushing her to decline the offer.
Demonstration to demand an agreement on the left. Several hundred people gathered in Paris on Sunday evening, a week after the second round of legislative elections, to demand “a government of the New Popular Front” and denounce the choice of the Socialist Party, which did not validate the candidacy of Huguette Bello.