Former French President Francois Hollande accuses the current head of state, Emmanuel Macron, of having committed “an institutional failure” for not having appointed Lucie Castets, the left-wing candidate, to the post of Prime Minister.
“It was not up to the president to ‘censor’ Lucie Castets himself,” declared the current socialist deputy in an interview published this Wednesday by the weekly The Point.
This work “It corresponds to the National Assembly” once the deputies have heard the declaration of the programme and the composition of the Government by the head of the Executive, he added.
Macron meets the main leaders of the conservative party this Wednesday The Republicansas part of its second round of political consultations, to try to find a way out of the complex puzzle created by the result of the legislative elections, which left the National Assembly without a viable majority.
But the president did not call for this round yesterday and today, nor did the extreme right of Marine Le Pen (RN) nor to the radical left of the France rebels (LFI).
While Macron refused to appoint Castets as Prime Minister, the rest of the left-wing parties that make up the LFI New Popular Front (NFP), the socialist, the communist and the environmentalist, refused to go to the Elysée.
This is why the president only plans to meet with the LR leaders today, after having done so yesterday with the centrist leader. Francois Bayrouone of its main allies, and with the leaders of the LIOT parliamentary group, which brings together 22 independent centrist, regionalist and nationalist deputies of the National Assembly.
The RN spokesperson, Laurent Jacobelliaccused the president, on public radio FranceInfo, of practicing “partial democracy” because of the exclusion of his party, with 11 million voters in the last legislative elections.
Constitutionalist and political scientist Benjamin Morel criticized Macron because in these new consultations “he excludes groups he does not like and he is trying to build a majority“In no parliamentary system is it the president who does it,” he said on Europe 1 radio.
France is in a unprecedented situation for several decadeswith a government in place for more than a month, a very divided National Assembly and cross threats of an immediate motion of censure between the different political groups in the event that the others form a minority government.
The Minister of Culture, Rachida Datifrom LR, has chosen today again to “create a field of agreement” to form a coalition between the Macronist bloc and the conservative right, which could reach “the social democrats”, which would require a break-up of the Socialist Party.
