Still looking for a government, Emmanuel Macron must open, on Tuesday August 27, a “new round of consultations”but with the reinforcement of “personalities” supposed to help him get out of the impasse after having swept aside the Lucie Castets option, arousing ire on the left. Hoping to unblock the situation and in search of “institutional stability”, The head of state wants to continue to discuss on Tuesday with party leaders, but also with “personalities distinguished by their experience of service to the State and the Republic”, he said in a statement on Monday evening. Follow our live coverage.
Lucie Castets says she is in “anger” and denounces “a denial of democracy”. HASAfter Emmanuel Macron’s announcement, the NFP candidate for Matignonguest of France Inter deplores that “The president waited at least a month before starting these discussions, and now we are saying to the French, you have come, but it is worthless”, she adds. “Democracy means nothing to the president,” castigates Lucie Castets. “We will not return [à l’Élysée] if it is not a question of moving forward to find a solution to get France out of its current immobility”she says.
Olivier Faure will not go to the Elysée. “This statement from the President of the Republic was truly lunar,” commented the head of the PS Olivier Faure, the guest of “Les 4 Vérités” on France 2 the day after Emmanuel Macron’s decision to sweep aside the option of a Lucie Castets government. “How can we arrive at such a democratic denial?” , he added, confirming that he will not go to the Elysée, refusing to be “accomplice in a parody of democracy.” The left-wing leader says he does not want that the socialists are “the auxiliaries of a dying Macronism”.
Marine Tondelier denounces an “illiberal drift”. The Secretary General of the Ecologists estimates on franceinfo that“We are having this election stolen from us and we are swimming in full illiberal drift.” “If a far-right president had done the same thing for six weeks, all observers would cry scandal,” she further lamented.
An impeachment motion coming. In a press release, La France Insoumise announced on Monday that “the impeachment motion [d’Emmanuel Macron] will be presented by the rebellious deputies to the office of the National Assembly” and that “any proposal for a Prime Minister other than Lucie Castets will be subject to a motion of censure.”
A call for popular mobilization. “The gravity of the moment calls for a firm response from French society against the incredible abuse of autocratic power of which it is the victim.”, LFI responded in a press release. Like the communist Fabien Roussel, the rebels call for “marches for respect for democracy”after Emmanuel Macron’s decision to rule out the possibility of a New Popular Front government.
Macron says no to an NFP government. In a statement published on Monday evening, the Elysée dismissed the possibility of a government of the New Popular Front, which came first in the second round of the legislative elections. “A government based solely on the programme and the parties proposed by the alliance with the largest number of MPs, the New Popular Front, would be immediately censored by all the other groups represented in the National Assembly,” said the presidency