The political crisis in France extends. Macron did not get the left support for the future government. “All this will end very badly”
French President Emmanuel Macron. Photo source: Christian Liewig- Pool / Sipa Press / Profimedia
The crisis meeting organized on Friday by the French President Emmanuel Macron with the political forces did not lead to any results, according to the left, pushing the country even more in a few hours before the expected designation of a new prime minister, reports AFP, taken by Agerpres.
“We have no response, except that the future prime minister, who should be appointed in the next few hours, will not be from our (left) political camp,” said the leader of Marine Tondelier, showing himself “sidelaged” after this meeting for almost two and a half hours.
“All this will end very badly,” she added, predicting a possible dissolution of the National Assembly (the Lower House of Parliament). There is no “clear response” from the head of state, Olivier Faure, the leader of the parliamentary group of the Socialists strengthened, who asked for the appointment of a prime minister in his camp.
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In the event of the very unpopular pensions reform, a prerequisite placed by a large part of the left so as not to censor the future government, the head of state only proposed the “decaling in time” of the measure of retirement age, says Marine Tondelier.
“No novelty,” the communist Fabien Roussel also, warning: if the prime minister is from Emmanuel Macron's camp, “we will not be able to accept it.”
The leaders of the right -wing party (Les Republicins/LR), Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Wauquiez, came out first from Elysee, without making statements.
Boiled meeting by radical parties
The great absentees from this meeting were the parties of the National Assembly (national rassemental /RN), of the far right, and France (LFI), of the radical left, which were not convened because, contrary to the others, both said they wanted to dissolve the Parliament, justified the entourage of Emmanuel Macron.
It is a word of “a break with the presidential function”, protested the president of the parliamentary group of the RN, Marine Le Pen, denouncing “a meeting of carpet traders” at a Congress of Firefighters.
Emmanuel Macron promised Wednesday to appoint a prime minister until Friday evening, after Sebastien Lecornu's resignation. The latter had received the mission to carry additional negotiations for two days to try to obtain, in the absence of a parliamentary majority, an agreement to uncertain the future government.
No information was disclosed on the time and modalities of an announcement. A future statement by President Macron was evoked by his entourage.
A few hours before appointment, the scenario of renewing Sebastien Lecornu's mandate, risking to irritate the opposition and accelerate the censorship of the new team.
Emmanuel Macron once again faces the problem that is struggling for more than a year: finding a prime minister capable of surviving in a parliamentary landscape without a majority, divided into three blocks (left-side alliance, far-right) from the dissolution of the meeting in June 2024.
