Michel Barnier continues his consultations. The Prime Minister will receive the national secretary of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, at Matignon on Tuesday, September 17, the political service of franceinfo has learned. The latter will be accompanied by Cécile Cukierman, president of the group in the Senate, and Stéphane Peu, communist deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis, who replaces André Chassaigne for the GDR group (democratic and republican left). Follow our live coverage.
LR officials received on Monday. As part of these consultations to form his government, Michel Barnier met with the leaders of his own party, Les Républicains. Gérard Larcher, President of the Senate, and the bosses of the deputies Laurent Wauquiez and the senators Bruno Retailleau were thus received.
Macronist MPs demand respect. The formation of a government team will “take a little more time”assured Sylvain Maillard, deputy for Together for the Republic in Paris, on franceinfo on Monday. “We intend to be respected. We want our sensitivity to be present in this government, in the texts that will be carried, we want our proposals to be carried,” he warned.
PS deputies not opposed to examining the impeachment of Emmanuel Macron. The PS deputies chose on Monday to work for a debate to take place in the Assembly on the dismissal of the President of the Republic. On the other hand, they will then vote “unanimously” against a procedure “doomed to failure”reflecting a strategic divergence with LFI.