In a statement on Monday, the left-wing alliance stated that the head of state must “appoint Lucie Castets to Matignon” and regretted that the president “continues to procrastinate” in appointing a Prime Minister.
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The New Popular Front will only return to the Elysée to discuss with Emmanuel Macron “modalities of cohabitation” with a government led by their candidate, Lucie Castets, announced the left-wing alliance in a press release on Monday, August 26.
The left-wing coalition claims that the head of state must “appoint Lucie Castets to Matignon”, and regrets that the president “keep procrastinating” to appoint a Prime Minister. “By choosing to keep a resigning government in office, he is making the task of the future government, which will have to rectify the situation in which he is leaving the country, more complicated every day.”denounce Lucie Castets, the head of the Ecologists Marine Tondelier, the first secretary of the Socialist Party Olivier Faure, the coordinator of the rebels Manuel Bompard and the head of the communists Fabien Roussel.
The rebellious leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, had challenged the leaders of Emmanuel Macron’s camp and the right on Saturday, asking them if they were ready not to censure a government led by Lucie Castets but not including any rebellious ministers. The presence of LFI within the government represents a red line for the Macronists and the right.
But from the extreme right to Macronie, via Les Républicains, all now affirm that more than the presence of LFI ministers, it is the program of the New Popular Front that poses a problem and would lead them to censure a Castets government. Censorship would be “inevitable”, declared the resigning Prime Minister and president of the Ensemble pour la République group, Gabriel Attal, in a message addressed to the deputies of his group.
