Photo: Bertrand Guay Agence France-Presse Olivier Faure, the boss of the Socialist Party, discusses with ex-president François Hollande, now a deputy again, on the sidelines of the welcome day for French elected officials, Tuesday, at the National Assembly.
Didier Lauras – Agence France-Presse in Paris
Posted at 10:42 a.m.
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President Emmanuel Macron wants to “give time” to the parties, but the left, having come first in the elections, is growing impatient: France remained mired Thursday in post-legislative negotiations, stuck by coexistence of three irreconcilable blocs without an absolute majority.
In a “letter to the French” published by the regional press on Wednesday, the president estimated that “no one has ] carried away” on Sunday, noting that the “blocs” emerging from the polls “are all in the minority” in the Assembly.
He therefore intends to “give political forces a little time to build compromises” and, in the meantime, leave it to the current government to “exercise its responsibilities”, while Paris hosts the Olympics in a little more time. two weeks.
Three blocs emerged from the vote: the left alliance (190 to 195 seats), followed by the center-right presidential camp (around 160 seats), and the far right (143 seats) came third, but achieving a historic breakthrough. However, a government must garner the support of at least 289 deputies.
Several personalities from the right and the center support the approach of the tenant of the Élysée, such as the president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, third person in state, who pleaded for the country to “step over the important period when we welcome the world at the Olympic Games”. He postponed the formation of a new cabinet “to the beginning of September”.
“Louis XVI at Versailles”< /h2>
But we choke on his words within the left alliance of the New Popular Front (NFP), first surprised on Sunday to find themselves in the lead in the number of deputies and well decided to implement his program of rupture.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000Olivier Faure, the boss of the Socialist Party, accuses the president of not “respecting the vote of the French”. And the ebullient boss of La France insoumise (LFI, radical left), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, denounced “shenanigans” and “return of the royal veto”.
The powerful CGT union is calling for rallies on July 18 “so that the election results are respected,” according to its boss, Sophie Binet. “We have the impression of having Louis XVI locking himself up in Versailles,” she adds, in reference to the monarch who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution.
Emmanuel Macron is in Washington until Thursday for a NATO summit devoted to the war in Ukraine.
A meeting where he will have to reassure on France's foreign policy in the coming months, against a backdrop of a new Labor majority in Great Britain and questions about the state of health of American President Joe Biden and his ability to win the November presidential election against Donald Trump.
In his absence, the French political scene is on fire.
NFP leaders are struggling to agree on a consensual name for prime minister. And some are getting exasperated: “I expressed my impatience quite strongly”, indicated the communist Fabien Roussel to the daily Libération. “We are taking too long,” admitted ecologist Sandrine Rousseau.
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“Macronism is over”
The business community expresses its concerns every day about NFP breakup program. France must save 25 billion euros in 2024 to restore its public finances, announced the Minister of Economy and Finance, Bruno Le Maire.
The governor of the Bank of France, for his part, called for “recognizing the demands of reality” and avoiding “excessive wage costs” for businesses.
In the At the same time, the Macronists are developing scenarios to keep power. Deputies from his party dream of “programmatic alliances” within a “project coalition ranging from the social democrats to the right of government”, therefore without LFI.
As for the far right, it ratified a defeat initially linked to the “republican barrage” organized in the second round of the legislative elections by the left, the center and the right, to distance it from power. But its leader, Marine Le Pen, after three failures since 2012, is ostensibly aiming for the 2027 presidential election.
His protégé, the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, considered it “irresponsible” that the message from the head of state was “now: “deal with it.”
Despite the support of a few faithful, President Macron sees his image more damaged than ever, his own camp accusing him of the dissolution, which he decided alone or almost.
“Macronism is over”, castigated the former member of the presidential majority Gilles Le Gendre, believing that the “only coalition that exists today” is the one “against the president”.< /p>