President rejects NFP government option

It was the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, who closed the consultation process on Monday, August 26. He left Emmanuel Macron around 6:30 p.m., without answering journalists’ questions. But, shortly before 8 p.m., the Elysée publishes a press release: the president rejects the option of a government from the New Popular Front.

Immediate response from La France Insoumise, which denounces an unacceptable democratic coup, and calls for marches for respect for democracy. But according to the leader of the statean NFP government would have been censored. This is what several parties, including members of the National Rally, told him, received Monday morning at theElysium. Eric Ciotti, the RN’s only ally, also received at the Elyséereiterates its opposition to a government from the NFP, and calls for a union of the right. The consultations, which were initially due to end today, will will continue on Tuesday August 27.