Negotiations continue on Monday, September 2, to find a new Prime Minister. Bernard Cazeneuve is currently talking at the Elysée with Emmanuel Macron. The name of the former head of François Hollande’s government, who left the PS in 2022, has been circulating for several days as a possible Prime Minister. “I don’t know on what grounds Bernard Cazeneuve is going to speak to the president”, reacted Olivier Faure on Monday on BFMTV, questioned about his profile. “The French have asked for change, for a break with the policies led by Emmanuel Macron. We will censor any form of continuity with Macronism,” reacted the leader of the socialists. Follow our live.
Xavier Bertrand, François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy also consulted. In addition to Bernard Cazeneuve, the head of state is due to meet with former presidents of the Republic François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday, franceinfo and France Télévisions learned from their entourage. François Hollande, who has become a member of parliament for Corrèze again after the legislative elections, will be received at 11 a.m. Xavier Bertrand, president of Hauts-de-France, will also meet with the president in the afternoon.
Bernard Cazeneuve’s profile divides the left. LThe Socialists displayed their divisions over the weekend over the position to adopt in the face of the appointment of a head of government other than Lucie Castets. “Bernard Cazeneuve is not supported by any of the country’s four left-wing parties”said LFI coordinator Manuel Bompard. Among the Ecologists-EELV, the hostility comes in particular from the memory of the death of activist Rémi Fraisse on the Sivens dam (Tarn), during clashes with the police in 2014, when Bernard Cazeneuve was Minister of the Interior.
Mathilde Panot reaffirms that LFI will censor “any government other than that of Lucie Castets”. “Mr. Cazeneuve is opposed to the program of the New Popular Front”the leader of the deputies of La France Insoumise said on France 2 on Monday. Mathilde Panot assures that LFI would vote for a censure against the former socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. “We will censor any other government that is not led by Lucie Castets”she said.