Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounces an “intolerable crime” in La Grande-Motte
The leader of La France Insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, denounced on X Saturday an “intolerable crime”, after the fire and explosion that occurred Saturday in front of the synagogue of La Grande-Motte. “Anti-Semitism is growing in France and it has just struck again in La Grande-Motte. The perpetrators of this act must be identified and punished. Solidarity with our Jewish compatriots”, reacted for his part the national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel.
Arson attack on the synagogue of La Grande-Motte. Intolerable crime. Thoughts for the faithful and believers thus attacked. Secularism and freedom of conscience are the daughters of freedom of worship. We never forget this.
— Jean-Luc Mélenchon (@JLMelenchon) August 24, 2024
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Gabriel Attal and Gérald Darmanin on a trip to La Grande-Motte
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal will go to the synagogue of La Grande-Motte with Gérald Darmanin on Saturday afternoon after the fire of vehicles followed by an explosion, an act “clearly criminal” according to the Minister of the Interior, which occurred on Saturday in front of this place of worship. The mayor of the city, Stéphan Rossignol, told AFP that a municipal police officer who came to the scene of the fire had been injured, without further information on his state of health.
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Monday night? Wednesday? After a second round? When will Emmanuel Macron choose?
According to an NFP participant at yesterday’s meeting, Emmanuel Macron would give himself until Wednesday to appoint a Prime Minister, just before the start of the Paralympic Games. “He reserves the right to come back to us,” this source told our colleagues at France Info. But according to other participants, he could speak as early as “Monday evening.” Yesterday, echoes rather mentioned a second round of meetings if this sequence was unsuccessful.
What if the left brought a little color to politics?
An LR Prime Minister? Macron mentioned names…
In front of LR representatives on Friday, Emmanuel Macron gave a few examples of possible contenders for Matignon from their ranks, according to an internal party source: those of regional presidents Valérie Pécresse and Xavier Bertrand, and also the mayor of Cannes David Lisnard.
Names that join others that have been circulating recently, such as Jean-Louis Borloo (centre-right) and the former socialist Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. A part of the right would be in favour of an alliance. But if LR has outlined an outstretched hand by presenting a legislative pact with obvious convergences with Gabriel Attal’s action pact, its leaders have ruled out any coalition.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon attacks the “autocrat” Macron
On Friday, during the LFI summer universities, the leader of La France insoumise, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, denounced the “aggressions” of Emmanuel Macron, accused of being an “autocrat” while he has not appointed a Prime Minister, more than a month after the resignation of Gabriel Attal. For his major speech at the political start of the Insoumis party, in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère in the Drôme, Jean-Luc Mélenchon portrayed the President of the Republic as an “authoritarian” man who “offends all French people”.
“The president has become the prime minister. Another aggression. He brings together ministers without the prime minister, that is not in the Constitution,” accused the three-time presidential candidate, also criticizing Emmanuel Macron for not respecting “the result of universal suffrage” and “not appointing a prime minister.”
Emmanuel Macron “behaved like a coach”, says Lucie Castets
Emmanuel Macron “seemed to acknowledge that the French people had asked for a change of political direction” and this is “immense progress”, declared Lucie Castets on Friday evening in Montpellier during the political return of the PCF, after meeting the head of state. “Nevertheless, the president presented himself rather not as an arbiter of institutions, as provided for in the Constitution of our beautiful country, but as a selector” and he “seems to want to compose his own government”, she added.
François Bayrou does not want LFI in government
From Édouard Philippe to François Bayrou to Gabriel Attal, many supporters of Emmanuel Macron have argued that they would censure a government including LFI ministers. “For the vast majority of parliamentarians who spoke, a government with the NFP program, that is to say LFI, and LFI ministers, is impossible,” declared MoDem president François Bayrou.
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… devoted to the long political wait of the summer. Often described as a “procrastinator”, including by his own supporters, Emmanuel Macron continues to extend the calendar. He finally accepted, on July 16, the resignation of Gabriel Attal’s government, which remained in place to manage current affairs. But since then, nothing. No new Prime Minister. Only one date was announced last week: August 23, the day on which the Head of State received the heads of parties and parliamentary groups at the Elysée. To not miss any political news, stay connected with us.
