He had announced it, will it be accepted? Prime Minister Gabriel Attal arrived at the Elysée to hand in his resignation to Emmanuel Macron on Monday, July 8, the day after the second round of the legislative elections which saw the presidential camp lose around a hundred deputies in the National Assembly.
“The political party that I represented in this campaign (…) does not have a majority”justified Gabriel Attal, who also specified that he would remain “as long as duty requires”The presidency has announced that Emmanuel Macron will wait to know the “structuring” of the new Assembly before choosing the people invited to join the government. Follow our live.
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, welcomed 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.
The left intends to present a candidate for the post of Prime Minister “within the week”. The first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure assured on franceinfo that the choice would be made “this week”, “either by consensus or [par] a vote”Several left-wing personalities, such as Yannick Jadot and Sandrine Rousseau, shared this ambition in the morning.
The left in the lead ahead of the presidential camp and the far right. Voters made the New Popular Front the leading bloc in the National Assembly in terms of seats (180), ahead of the presidential camp (158 seats) and the National Rally and its allies (143 seats). On the right, LR and its allies won 67 seats. In the absence of an absolute majority, Emmanuel Macron will only be able to call to Matignon a personality who receives the assent of several political forces.
The Prime Minister is due to resign today. Gabriel Attal will present his resignation to Emmanuel Macron at 11:15 a.m., franceinfo learned from the entourage of the President of the Republic. Gabriel Attal declared that he would remain “as long as duty requires”The presidency has announced that Emmanuel Macron will wait to know the “structuring” of the new Assembly before choosing the people invited to join the government.
The New Popular Front demands Matignon. Emmanuel Macron “has the duty to call on the New Popular Front to govern”hammered Jean-Luc Mélenchon after the announcement of the first estimates of results. How will the left’s candidate for Matignon be chosen? “There is a chance that the Prime Minister will come from the ranks of LFI”reacted on franceinfo the LFI MEP Manon Aubry, who added that having “at the heart of maintaining the unity of the New Popular Front, that the nomination be consensual”. “Decisions will be made between us in a calm, peaceful and determined manner. Until now, it has always been done by consensus.”declared the leader of the Ecologists, Marine Tondelier, on BFMTV.
Other scenarios on the table. The main political forces could also agree to appoint a technical government, on the Italian model. This process could take a long time, pending a hypothetical agreement between several political forces on a candidate for Matignon.