The leaders of the New Popular Front, and their candidate for the post of Prime Minister, Lucie Castets, wrote an open letter to denounce “the inaction of the President of the Republic” deemed “serious and harmful”.
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“The question that Lucie Castets does not answer in her letter is ‘What majority to support her government?'”regrets Thursday August 22 on franceinfo Pierre Cazeneuve, Renaissance deputy of Hauts-de-Seine. On the eve of their meeting at the Élysée with Emmanuel Macron, the leaders of the New Popular Front, and their candidate for the post of Prime Minister, Lucie Castets, wrote an open letter to denounce “the inaction of the President of the Republic” judged “serious and harmful”.
In her letter, Lucie Castets “wishes for peace, higher wages and an end to poverty in the world”the deputy from the presidential camp jokes. “I think everyone can agree with that, but it does not make a political program.”
According to him, “If there are LFI deputies or members of La France Insoumise in the government, then it will be immediately overthrown.” An option “which is not viable”, he continues. For Pierre Cazeneuve, Emmanuel Macron cannot appoint Lucie Castets without taking into account certain parameters. He cannot say to himself “It doesn’t matter, it will be censored”explains the MP, “because we are going to return to a new sequence with a resigning government, current affairs that are not moving forward and reforms that the French are waiting for and which are not happening”The elected official believes that this behavior would be “irresponsible” from the Head of State and “That’s why he doesn’t do it.”
Emmanuel Macron is inviting the various party and parliamentary group leaders for consultations starting Friday, August 23, with a view to appointing a government, more than a month after the resignation of Gabriel Attal’s government. The head of state is receiving the leaders of the left-wing coalition New Popular Front (NFP) and their candidate for Matignon, Lucie Castets, on Friday morning. Representatives of the presidential camp (Renaissance, Horizons, MoDem, Radical Party), the UDI, the Republicans (LR) and the centrist Liot group will also be received on Friday, before the RN and Éric Ciotti’s party on Monday.
