The socialist mayor of Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) Karim Bouamrane, whose name is circulating for Matignon, said on Friday August 30 on TF1 “in capacity” to become Prime Minister by building “compromise”but suggested that he would need the prior green light from his party, and more broadly from the New Popular Front. He said he would not“to be a candidate for nothing at all”, but added: “If my phone rings [pour me le proposer] I will take the information and I will turn to my political party (…)”. The name of Karim Bouamrane as a potential Prime Minister has been mentioned in recent days, as have other representatives of the moderate left, such as former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. Follow our live stream.
Marine Tondelier denounces “a strategy of decay”. None of the scenarios on the table for forming a government are winning, more than 50 days after the dissolution of the National Assembly by President Emmanuel Macron. Guest of “Les 4 Vérités” on France 2, Marine Tondelier, the national secretary of the Ecologists, considered that the head of state was in a “rotting strategy”. “He bet on the crumbling of the New Popular Front and his strategy is to tell himself that people are so fed up with not having a Prime Minister that the French will accept anyone.”she continued.
Mathilde Panot appeals to the Constitutional Council. The president of the La France Insoumise group in the National Assembly announced on Thursday that she was referring the matter to the Constitutional Council on behalf of the “violation of the separation of powers”, because resigning ministers are also exercising the function of deputy. “This is not a new blow, it is a way of putting an end to a situation which is in violation of the separation of powers”she said on franceinfo.
The PS is divided over the attitude to adopt. At second day of the Socialist Party summer university in Blois, the question of strategy towards Emmanuel Macron and a possible participation in a grand coalition is being debated among activists. Especially since some figures have made statements that run counter to the official line of Olivier Faure, the party’s first secretary.
Emmanuel Macron speaks from Belgrade. During a visit to Serbia, the President of the Republic affirmed that he was “all efforts” to find a new Prime Minister and to “to achieve the best solution for the country”. “I will speak to the French people in due time and in the right context”he also promised, forty-five days after accepting the resignation of Gabriel Attal’s government.