On Thursday morning, September 5, the New Popular Front (NFP), visibly still harboring some hope, issued another press release urging Emmanuel Macron – after sixty days of waiting and a litany of names being floated – to finally name Lucie Castets, his candidate, in Matignon, “to break the deadlock.” Yet another exhortation that resonates, for the umpteenth time, in the void.
A few hours later, at midday, Michel Barnier, a member of the Les Républicains (LR) party, was appointed Prime Minister by Emmanuel Macron. Immediately, new press releases arrived from the teams of the various partners in the left-wing alliance. They unanimously promised to fight against the new government.
Like its other NFP partners, the Socialist Party (PS) announced in a press release that it will censure Michel Barnier, claiming that “has neither political legitimacy nor republican legitimacy.” The first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure, regrets a “Democratic denial taken to its peak” with the appointment of“a prime minister from the party that came in fourth place and who did not even participate in the republican front [contre le RN] ». “We are entering a dietary crisis”concludes.
“A weapon of honour for the French”
On YouTube, the founder of La France insoumise (LFI), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is equally definitive. “The choice [législative] was stolen from the French. The message was denied »protest, while the NFP came first, but without an absolute majority.
The same tone is shared by the former MP from the North and national secretary of the Communist Party (PC), Fabien Roussel. For him, the choice of the former right-wing European Commissioner is “an arm of honour for the French who aspire to change”. “It’s a real scandal” Marine Tondelier, leader of the environmentalists, also protested.
For François Hollande, traveling to the Châlons-en-Champagne fair, “there is almost certainty” that if Michel Barnier could have been appointed by Macron, “It is because the National Rally [RN] gave a form of discharge.” The former President of the Republic considers that the new head of Government should “explain” before the Assembly.
As for Lucie Castets, she criticizes, for Midparta prime minister “reactionary ideas”The senior official refers in particular to the opposition of Michel Barnier, then a young 30-year-old MP, to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1981. A position immediately denounced by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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