Negotiations continue two days after the legislative elections, which did not produce a clear majority in the Assembly: all eyes are on the New Popular Front, which has launched new negotiations between its components to propose a name for Matignon. On Tuesday, July 9, all elected or re-elected deputies will return to the National Assembly: the left, the leading political force with 180 deputies, is arriving in force. The environmentalists are expected at 9:15 a.m., then the deputies of La France Insoumise around 10 a.m., before the socialists expected at 2:30 p.m. Follow our live feed.
Marine Tondelier asks Emmanuel Macron for political “clarification”The national secretary of the Ecologists-EELV considered on Monday in “L’Evenement” on France 2 that “institutional logic would have dictated” to the President of the Republic “to pick up the phone and call the party leaders of the New Popular Front to ask them for the name of a Prime Minister.” “He did not do that today to my knowledge. I think that was a mistake.”she added.
Bruno Retailleau calls for “rebuilding a large right-wing party”. The day after the legislative elections, the president of the LR group in the Senate believes on TF1 that the “LR brand is dead” and calls for “rebuild a great right-wing party.” The Republicans and their allies came in fourth place in the poll, with 66 seats. according to our count.
Emmanuel Macron asks Gabriel Attal to stay “for the moment”. The President of the Republic asks the Prime Minister not to leave Matignon immediately in order “to ensure the stability of the country”, announced the Elysée on Monday. The head of government had stated that he would resign on Monday, the day after the second round of legislative elections which saw the presidential camp lose around a hundred deputies. Emmanuel Macron received him at 11:15 a.m. and “thanked him for the European and legislative election campaigns he led”the Elysée Palace said on Monday.
The RN speaks of “a delayed victory” and claims the status of leading party in the Assembly. The National Rally MP for the North, Sébastien Chenu, salutes on France Inter a “a rising wave, which never stops rising, but which today has not crossed the obstacle”. RN spokesperson Laurent Jacobelli anticipates on franceinfo that the “motley mix” of the New Popular Front “will explode tomorrow morning”The far-right party constitutes the third bloc of deputies, behind the NFP and the presidential camp.