“On a number of issues, we could come together very broadly.” In “Les 4 vérités” on France 2, Tuesday July 9, the socialist mayor of Nantes Johanna Rolland said “opened” to a coalition with “some left-wing Macronists”The person who is also a PS negotiator within the New Popular Front cites the examples of medical desertification and the return of community policing: “in collective intelligence, we can achieve a majority.”
On France Inter, the former president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet also calls for the formation of a “programmatic alliance” around the central block, “with the centrists, the Republicans”and the “the social democrats, therefore the socialists and the ecologists”. Follow our live.
The elected or re-elected deputies will arrive at the National Assembly. The left, the leading political force with 180 deputies, is arriving in force. The environmentalists were expected at 9:15, then the deputies of La France Insoumise around 10 a.m., before the socialists expected at 2:30 p.m.
Negotiations continue on the left. Two days after the legislative elections that failed to 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. The first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure assured on Monday evening on TF1 that the choice would be made “this week”, Or “At the beginning of next week”. Questioned on France 2 in the evening about the candidate to access Matignon, the deputy François Ruffin assures that “it’s not [lui], “That’s not the point”.
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.
Emmanuel Macron asks Gabriel Attal to stay “for the moment”. The President of the Republic has asked 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 the day after elections that 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.