Every year at this time in France, the expression “la rentrée” (the return) is activated from the summer holidays, which refers to the return of students to school, the return of the government to its work and the new crop of literary books. This year politics in France returned last week when the president Emmanuel Macron met leaders of parties and coalitions, in view of the consultations that will continue next week, with the aim of appointing a prime minister and forming a government.
After the second round of early parliamentary elections on July 7, in which no party secured independence, France is ruled by the outgoing centrist government of Gabriel Atal. Macron, however, is in no hurry to propose a prime minister, who should be widely accepted, both by his own centrist coalition of parties (which came second in the elections, with 166 MPs) and by the left-wing coalition of the New People’s Front (NFP – first in the elections, with 193 MPs).
The two coalitions will have to work together to form a government, at least for a year, as the French Constitution prohibits the dissolution of parliament before one year has passed (July 2025). Macron’s delay is interpreted as the coalition government, when formed, will weaken presidential powers.
The left is pushing Macron to appoint a prime minister from among its own ranks as the NFP came first in the election. However, the person who proposed, h Lucy Caste, 37 years old, senior civil servant in the financial sector of the Paris Municipality, with a brilliant resume, does not seem to be accepted by Macron. Caste has no political experience, only experience of public administration, and the deficit in the finances of the municipality of Paris does not speak in her favor.
On the contrary, the socialist option seems to be gaining ground Karim Bouamran51, successful mayor of the city of Saint-Ouen, near Paris, since 2020, IT entrepreneur, who has also worked in Silicon Valley.
Bouamran is a moderate, he enjoys respect both in the field of Socialists and the center-right, such as Jean Louis Borlothis former Minister of the Environment Nicolas Sarkozywhile he has the esteem of businessmen like the banker Mathieu Pigasfrom the owners of “Monde”.
Advocate of laicité, the secular character of the French state, Bouamran criticizes his Far Left Jean-Luc Melanchon that divides the Left. Last April, the New York Times sketched his portrait while the German press called him the “Obama of the Seine”.
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