“The presence of LFI within the government is a pretext” for not implementing the NFP program, denounces Eric Coquerel

The La France Insoumise MP for Seine-Saint-Denis reacted on franceinfo on Sunday to the threats of censorship from a New Popular Front government, while Emmanuel Macron continues to consult with a view to appointing a Prime Minister.

“I think that the presence or absence of LFI ministers within the government is a pretext”denounces Sunday August 25 on franceinfo Eric Coquerel, deputy of France Insoumise – New Popular Front of Seine-Saint-Denis. He reacts to the fact that Emmanuel Macron still refuses to appoint Lucie Castets as prime minister. “It is up to the members of the government, the executive and the presidential camp to prove the opposite to us”adds the elected official.

“So we are simply asking them a question. For now, we are waiting for the answer.”declares the deputy in reference to the intervention of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Saturday August 24 in the 1 p.m. news on TF1 who asked this question: “If Lucie Castets’ government did not include any Insoumis ministers, would you commit to not voting for censure and to allowing it to implement the programme for which we came out on top in the legislative elections?”

Eric Coquerel assures us, “What seems important to us is that the program that came out on top in the legislative elections, from the NFP, partly inspired by LFI, can be implemented”According to him, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s proposal “puts the primary interests of LFI in second place and the interests of the country in first place with the implementation of the program”.

But the MP is convinced that the fact that Emmanuel Macron is not appointing Lucie Castets to Matignon “has been a pretext from the beginning”. For what ? “Because all this comes down to avoiding, for Emmanuel Macron, accepting the choice of the French people which is to no longer want his policy. I believe that he does not agree with that, that he does not accept it and that the question of LFI is a pretext but he can prove to us the opposite”. “Since July, Emmanuel Macron should have called the coalition that won this election. It is abnormal that a man alone decides not to respect the sovereign choice of the people.”adds the Insoumis.

Eric Coquerel goes even further in his analysis: “I heard Mr. Macron say that there was no winner and Mr. Wauquiez explain that we would be the main danger while several of these deputies were elected thanks to our withdrawal. I come back to thinking that all these people, behind the dissolution, thought – and it did not pose a problem for them – that the RN was going to win.”According to him, the NFP has therefore “thwarted those plans”. For the MP, what his political opponents fear deep down is “the return of a left worthy of the name”.

Asked about the attack on the synagogue in La Grande-Motte in Hérault on Saturday 24 August and the criticisms made of LFI by several political figures, Eric Coquerel replied: “Those who make any connection between La France Insoumise [et l’attaque d’une synagogue] “On the pretext that we are asking for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine and the recognition of a Palestinian state in order to embark on a path to peace, I find that this is an unspeakable political recovery”.