Within the New Popular Front, discussions are going well to present a candidate for Matignon

The parties that make up the New Popular Front have claimed the post of prime minister after coming out on top in Sunday’s second round, promising a name “within the week”.

In the aftermath of the results of the legislative elections, which did not produce an absolute majority, the question of choosing the next Prime Minister is animating the debates. The current occupant of Matignon, Gabriel Attal, submitted his resignation to Emmanuel Macron, who refused it, on Monday, July 8. The President of the Republic asked the head of government to remain in office “For now” for’“ensure the stability of the country”.

The left-wing coalition began to put pressure on the executive on Sunday evening. The leader of the ecologists-EELV, Marine Tondelier, estimated on RTL that the head of state “should call today” left “to give him the name of a Prime Minister”considering that “That’s institutional logic”. The leader of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, was inflexible, affirming that Emmanuel Macron must “to leave or appoint a Prime Minister” from the New Popular Front.

The rebellious Mathilde Panot and the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, both affirmed that the New Popular Front had to propose a name “during the week”the latter explaining that this choice would be made “either by consensus, or there will necessarily be a vote”The coordinator of La France Insoumise, Manuel Bompard, for his part affirmed on France 2 that this could be done. “by consensus”.

The question of incarnation still risks dividing. The coordinator of La France insoumise, Manuel Bompard, repeated that “republican usage” was that the Prime Minister belonged “to the political formation of the coalition which has the greatest number of deputies”or his own, according to him. Mathilde Panot affirmed that the rebellious leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, very divisive for a part of the left, “not’[étai]“You are absolutely not disqualified” for Matignon. He “taught the left how to win again (…), gave hope to millions of people by winning 22% in the presidential election”she argued. Marine Tondelier, for her part, stressed “that a good Prime Minister must calm the country (and) unite in his own camp”and that consequently it was not “not set to be Jean-Luc Mélenchon”.

Several personalities, ranging from Olivier Faure to the communist Fabien Roussel, including the former socialist president François Hollande and the environmentalist Yannick Jadot, have already repeatedly excluded the rebellious leader as a possible head of government. “We also have to ask ourselves the question of how we govern, how we can be able to calm this country and ensure that we repair the fractures that deeply divide it. So there are profiles that stand out more than others.”noted the PS boss, refusing to give names.

Olivier Faure did not rule out the possibility that the socialist group could be the first group of the New Popular Front. “I think so, I don’t know. We’ll see what the affiliations are. There are the overseas, there are all those who were in the Popular Front without being affiliated with this or that political party.”he explained, without mentioning the rebellious rebels.

For her part, the rebellious Clémentine Autain, who specified on Sunday that she would not sit with the LFI group, just like François Ruffin, called for “find the barycenter” of this left-wing alliance, saying that he is part, like Marine Tondelier, of the possible candidates. Raphaël Glucksmann admitted, by evoking a National Assembly “divided” : “We will have to discuss, we will have to dialogue.”

Meanwhile, the Macronist camp, which won 163 seats, continues to advocate for a coalition. “I believe in it more than ever”even affirmed Yaël-Braun Pivet on France 2. The former president of the National Assembly, however, only plans to govern with “people who share [ses] values ​​and [ses] objectives, this is neither the case of LFI nor the case of the RN”, in line with previous statements by former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (Horizons), who called for a coalition of all parties, except La France Insoumise and the National Rally.

Renaissance MP Maud Bregeon, for her part, ruled out on BFMTV “participate in a coalition which would include LFI or EELV”Even more restrictive, her colleague Aurore Bergé hoped on RTL “find reasonable people” For “share a project that is neither that of the RN nor that of the NFP”before extending a helping hand to the 66 Republican deputies: “Do they want to remain a systematic opposition force?” A badly started expansion to the right since Laurent Wauquiez, elected in Haute-Loire, warned on Sunday evening that he “there will be[it] neither coalition nor compromise” from LR. The head of the MoDem, François Bayrou, for his part judged “possible” to form a majority without RN or LFI, and seemed to bet on a division of the left, by pointing to France Inter “incompatible attitudes and political choices” within the NFP.

Calculations contested by Marine Tondelier: “Those who tell us that they will have a majority without LFI did not have the same maths teachers as me (…) I don’t see how that’s possible”the environmentalist decided.