From Belgrade, Emmanuel Macron assures that he will speak “with the French in due time and in the appropriate framework”

They refused the tea or coffee offered to them, accepting a simple glass of… still water. In the green room of the Elysée, the leaders of the right, Laurent Wauquiez, Annie Genevard and Bruno Retailleau, were received on Wednesday 28 August for the second time by Emmanuel Macron, who is prolonging their consultations. A polite exchange, but more tense than the first, while the President of the Republic, who defeated the candidacy of Lucie Castets (New Popular Front) in Matignon, is now putting pressure on the right to participate in a coalition government, beyond the simple “legislative pact” which she asked him to take over in July, in exchange for support in Parliament.