Paris/Prensa Latina
The French left-wing party bloc New Popular Front, made up of rebels, socialists, environmentalists and communists, accused President Emmanuel Macron today of creating an impasse and demanded that he end it.
After yet another round of consultations on the nomination of the future prime minister and almost two months since the legislative elections (July 7), the president has plunged the country into an impasse of his own making, the alliance stressed in the text circulated here.
On July 16, Macron accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his cabinet, but asked them to remain in their posts with basic functions until a replacement was appointed, which has still not happened despite two weeks of meetings between the head of state and political forces and figures.
For the New Popular Front, justifying the delay with the argument that the appointee could face a vote of no confidence in the National Assembly, where no bloc has an absolute majority (289 deputies), is a failure.
There is also no point in throwing names of candidates one after another to the press, he lashed out, alluding to the trend in recent days of mentioning in the media politicians who could eventually be close to being nominated.
The left ratified its right to govern, by being the list that brought the most deputies to the Assembly (193) following the legislative elections in July.
However, Macron has already ruled out naming the economist Lucie Castets, one of the signatories of the claim, as prime minister, along with the leaders of the insubordinate party, Manuel Bompard, socialist, Olivier Faure, ecologist, Marine Tondelier, and communist, Fabien Roussel.
The document denounces France’s financial and fiscal problems and demands solutions to “social, climatic and democratic emergencies,” challenges that the left considers itself the only one capable of facing.
The right, for its part, is pressuring the president to lean towards that camp in his appointment of Matignon, while other sectors are advocating for a technical government capable of generating consensus in the varied and polarized prevailing political scenario.
In this regard, the New Popular Front reiterated its willingness to seek text-by-text agreements in Parliament, although right-wing and far-right forces have already announced that they will censure any left-wing government.
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