Photo: Ludovic Marin Agence France-Presse The name of Laurence Tubiana, linchpin of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, has been put forward.
Antoine Maignan – Agence France-Presse and Cécile Azzaro – Agence France-Presse in Paris
Published yesterday at 1:09 p.m. Updated yesterday at 6:24 p.m.
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The standoff hardened further on Monday in France between the different components of the New Popular Front (NFP), the left-wing coalition that came first in the early legislative elections, who are trying to overcome their differences and agree on a candidate for the post of prime minister.
Socialists, communists and ecologists announced Monday evening that they were proposing to their NFP ally, the France Insoumise party (LFI, radical left), a personality “from civil society”.
This is the name of Laurence Tubiana, the kingpin of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, who was advanced, corroborating sources told AFP.
But this academic is already criticized by LFI, which accuses her of proximity to the camp of centrist President Emmanuel Macron .
This movement led by the ex-socialist Jean-Luc Mélenchon had in any case excluded the idea of a personality from civil society, believing that it did not include sufficient guarantees for “the implementation of the NFP program”.
After eight days of negotiations, the discussions therefore seem to have stalled while the rejection this weekend by the PS of the candidacy of the president of the regional council of Reunion, Huguette Bello, close to LFI, has reignited the powder. in the fragile alliance, undermined by internal quarrels.
The strongest tensions oppose La France insoumise and the Socialist Party, the two main groups of the NFP vying for leadership on the left in the new Parliament.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000“Is the Socialist Party playing for time to let the New Popular Front break up and abandon the program?” was questioned by LFI in a press release, the coordinator of the movement Manuel Bompard castigating “the systematic opposition” of the PS.
“Nothing has been blocked”, retorted the first secretary of the PS, Olivier Faure.
The early legislative elections did not produce an absolute majority for the main camps and the Assembly is now divided into three blocs: the NFP (190 to 195 seats), followed by the center-right presidential camp (around 160 seats), and the far right and its allies (143 seats).
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for his part, demanded “a single candidacy for the presidency of the National Assembly” to resume any further discussions.
The representatives of the four left-wing groups met in the evening and recorded the principle, according to corroborating sources. Discussions around a name are expected to continue on Tuesday.
The left is playing big in this election to the lower house of Parliament on Thursday.
Part of the Macronist camp has been trying for several days to build a majority to keep this key position, which the outgoing president, Yaël Braun-Pivet, intends to keep.
An agreement with the right, for example, could allow the presidential bloc to overtake the left in number of votes.
The subject was on the menu of discussions around Emmanuel Macron on Monday with the leaders of the presidential camp.
“The idea was to see […] how to envisage that another personality than the one proposed by the New Popular Front preside over the Assembly,” confirms a participant.
Attal soon to resign
Gabriel Attal, still Prime Minister, could submit his resignation as early as Tuesday, while a Council of Ministers is scheduled for 11:30 a.m.
“It should be tomorrow,” confirms a close friend of Emmanuel Macron, in particular to allow all the ministers elected as deputies to participate in the election for the presidency of the National Assembly, then in the allocation of key positions at the Palais Bourbon, seat of the Assembly, on Friday and Saturday.
The current government team would, however, remain in place for a certain time, particularly during the very sensitive period of the Olympics, to manage “current affairs” and ensure the continuity of the State.
At the heart of the political vagueness, one thing is certain for the future government: it will recover public finances in the red. In a thick report presented Monday morning, the Court of Auditors indeed draws up a worrying assessment.
The need to reduce the debt is an “imperative” which “must be shared » by all political forces, warned its first president Pierre Moscovici.