Left-wing alliance denounces “an anti-democratic coup” and calls for a “major popular mobilization”

NFP representatives reacted strongly on Monday evening after Emmanuel Macron’s decision to rule out the possibility of a left-wing alliance government.

A “unacceptable anti-democratic coup”a “shame” and a “dangerous democratic irresponsibility”. Many voices on the left protested on Monday, August 26, against Emmanuel Macron’s decision to exclude the option of a New Popular Front government led by Lucie Castets, in the name of “institutional stability”Several representatives of the left-wing alliance have called for demonstrations in response to the Elysée’s announcement on Monday evening.

Emmanuel Macron has ruled out, following a series of consultations with political parties and parliamentary groups, the possibility of a government “on the basis of the program and the parties alone” of the New Popular Front, in the name of the “institutional stability”. The head of state is planning new consultations from Tuesday, according to a press release from the Elysée.

“This is a completely unacceptable anti-democratic coup, which is based on an argument that makes no sense.”Manuel Bompard said on BFMTV, assuring that they would not go “not participate in a new consultation attempt”. “The gravity of the moment calls for a firm response from French society”added the deputy on X, specifying that the rebellious movement proposed “that marches for respect for democracy take place”.

The founder of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for his part judged X that the president had just provoked “a situation of exceptional gravity”calling for a “rapid and firm popular and political response”. He also specified that a “impeachment motion will be filed” against the head of state.

The national secretary of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, also called on BFMTV on Monday for “a great popular mobilization” In “the next days”. “We will have to mobilize in front of the prefectures, in the city centers”he said, refusing in turn to participate in new consultations “if it is to ask us to form a government which would continue the government’s policy” outgoing. “They don’t want it to change, there’s no point in us coming”he insisted. On franceinfo, the PCF spokesperson, Ian Brossat, estimated that “This is nothing other than a coup d’état against democracy and against universal suffrage.” “What has been organized over the past two months is a kind of anti-republican coalition that aims to deny the results of the ballot boxes,” he insisted.

The national secretary of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, declared that Emmanuel Macron’s press release was “a disgrace”. “Calling for stability when we have dissolved without any consultation and we refuse the result of an election for which the French have never been so numerous to turn out is a dangerous democratic irresponsibility”, she lashed out.

“We will continue to fight to respect the will of the French people: three quarters of them want a political break with Macronism”continued the environmentalist.

“The president’s coup is unbearable,” supported in turn Chloé Ridel, spokesperson for the Socialist Party. The consultations led by Emmanuel Macron “were only a simulacrum”she laments. “What other coalition than the NFP would allow both to embody the alternation that the French wanted and to be more ‘stable’? None”, continues the spokesperson.